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Period:1450to
Age of Discovery (1450-1600)
-Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas -1492 -
Period:1500to
Height of the Renaissance (1500-1600)
Cortes conqures the Aztecs in Mexico (1518) -
Period:1517to
Protestant Reformation (1517-1648)
Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses (1517)
Henry VIII splits from Catholic Church (1534)
Elizabeth I creates the Anglican Church (1558) -
Period:1540to
Scientific Revolution (1540-1700)
Copernicus creates heliocentric theory (1543)
Newton creates the Laws of Gravity (1666) -
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Enlightenment (1600-1700)
English Civil War (1642-1649)
Locke writes the Two Treatises of Government (1689)
Montesquieu writes the Spirit of Laws (1748)
Charles II takes power(1660)
William and Mary take power (1688) -
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Age of Revolutions (1763-1848)
American Revolution (1775-1783)
French Revolution (1789-1799)Reign of Terror (1793-1794)
Napoleon takes power (1799)
Haitian Independence (1804)
Napoleonic Wars (1804-1815)
Father Miguel Hidalgo begins the Mexican Revolution (1810)
Simon Bolivar helps Venezuela with independence (1811)
Congress of Vienna meets (1815)
Simon Bolivar helps Peru with independence (1821)
The U.S. issues the Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Unification of Germany (1871)