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After fighting in a civil war in Northern Africa, Prince Henry brought back tons of gold and fortune
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Gutenburg is put into exile
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Gutenburg is involved in a confidential production project
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Gutenburg created the first book ever printed in Europe from movable type, it was the "Forty-Two-Line" Bible.
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Leonardo is accused of sodomy and then he is publicly humiliated.
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Poverty forced Erasmus into monastery life and he was made into a Catholic priest
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Christopher Columbus and his crew made landfall. They thought they had reached Asia, but they were wrong; they had reached America.
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Leonardo painted the Last Supper.
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Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa
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Michelangelo completed The David
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Hernan Cortez decided to sail to the New World. He sailed to what is now Haiti.
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Michelangelo finished the Sistine chapel.
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Nicolaus Copernicus formulated an economics principle and was later called Gresham’s law.
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Martin Luther is excommunicated
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Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
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With Montezuma dead, Cortes took over the Aztec's capital city. It was the end of the Aztec Empire.
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Though Erasmus supported Protestant ideals, he was against the radicalism of some of its leaders, and, in 1523, he disapproved Luther's methods in De libero arbitrio.
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'Spiritual Exercises' authored by Ignatious Loyola
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Henry VIII became head of the Church in England and Wales as far as the word of God Allows.
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John Calvin published his first work
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Michelangelo got chosen to be the chief architect at St Peter's and the Farnese Palace.
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Queen Mary I dies and Elizabeth becomes Queen Elizabeth I
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Drake sails with John Hawkins to the New World where they are trapped by Spanish fleet that attacks and kills 500 Englishmen. Drake escapes on the Judith
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Elizabeth is excommunicated from the Catholic Church by the Pope
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Miguel de Cervantes became a soldier and also fought in the battle of Lepanto
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Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe on the Golden Hind.
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Miguel de Cervantes published his first piece of work called La Galatea
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London theaters are closed due to an outbreak of bubonic plague that kills about five percent of the city's residents. Shakespeare uses the break to write poetry.
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The Globe Theater is built.
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William Shakespeare writes Hamlet.
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Thomas Hobbes got his bachelor degree of Thucydides.
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Johannes Kepler published the Astronomia Nova.
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Heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was told to hold back teaching, or defending Heliocentric.
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Charles I was named monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland until death.
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Oliver Cromwell was elected to Parliament
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Charles II was proclaimed by the Parliament Of Scotland as king on February 5th.
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Oliver Cromwell served as the Lord Protector of Commonwealth for England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Peter the Great ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7th of May until death.
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Isaac Newton's book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was published.
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John Locke returns to England on November 5th.
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The English Parliament offered William and Mary the throne as joint monarchs, which is known as the Glorious Revolution.
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Baron de Montesquie surprised close friends by publishing his Lettres Persanes.
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Peter the Great introduced the system of Table of Ranks.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote “Discourse of the Arts and Sciences.”
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Voltaire writes his most famous philosophical tale, Candide.
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Napoleon Bonaparte is given the command of the French army of Italy
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The French Revolution began
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Louis XVI was executed by Guillotine for treason
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Jean Jacques Rousseau was a national hero in the Pantheon in Paris.
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Napoleon Bonaparte wins the battle of Lodi on May 10th
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Napoleon Bonaparte wins the Battle of Rivoli
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The French Revolution ended in this year, it lasted 10 years.
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Eugene Delacroix returned to Paris with new ideas for his art.