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1419
Prince Henry's navigation school founded
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May 29, 1453
Fall Of Constantinople
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Period: 1490 to 1520
The Renaissance period generally begins
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus discovers America
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1497
Vasco de Gama finds water route
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1504
Michelangelo's David
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1511
The Praise of Folly Published
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Oct 10, 1517
Mona Lisa Finished
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Oct 31, 1517
95 Theses nailed to door of Wittenburg Church
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Sep 20, 1519
Magellan Circumnavigates the globe
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1521
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
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Apr 17, 1521
Marten Luther's trial at the Diet of Worms
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1526
Start of the Mughal Empire
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1528
Tobacco introduced to Europe
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1532
Pissarro conquered the Incans
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1534
Anglican Church started
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1543
Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published
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Period: 1545 to 1563
Council of Trent
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1566
Peak of Ottoman Empire
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Defeat of Spanish Armada
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar published
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Galileo's first telescope built
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William Harvey discovered blood flow
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Taj Mahal Finished
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Newton's laws of gravity published