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Prince Henry funds the expeditions to allow them to explore Africa
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the innovated printing press is invented by Johannes Gutenburg.
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Christopher Columbus sails with three ships full men across the Atlantic ocean
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Vasco da Gama discovers a new trading route to India
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Amerigo tells many that the new found land is not Asia but a entirely new land mass
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The famous painting is created by Leonardo
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The statue of David is created by Michelangelo
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A Portuguese explorer named Pedro Alvares Cabral sails to modern day Brazil
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Michelangelo paints the 16th Chapel
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Eramus was a renaissance thinker who edits the New Testament
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After being fed up with how the Catholic Church ran things he nails 95 thesis that speak against the church.
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Magellan takes 250 men and 5 ships
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After Luther nails the 95 thesis to the door of his church. The Catholic Church excommunicates him when he refuses to remove them.
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Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez invades South America and take over.
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Only 18 men and a ship return from the journey Magellan dies during the trip
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Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro takes over the Incans
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A Catholic order devoted to the Catholic Church is founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola
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When the pope said that he will not let Henry divorce his wife he broke from the church
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French explorer Jacques sails for modern day Canada only to bring back fool's gold and quartz
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The Jesuits are finally recognized by Pope Paul iii as a order of the Catholic Church.
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To counter the reformation the Pope starts an inquistion
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Copernicus creates a model showing that the Sun is in the center not the Earth
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The Pope meets with the Catholic church's cardinals to reform the church.
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Sir Francis Drake is hired by Queen Elizabeth the first to help them defeat the Spanish armada
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The famous play Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespare
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King Henry iv give protestants freedom from religious intolerance
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Galileo invents the telescope and with it he observe some of the planets in our solar system
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This scientific law helps modern day scientists better understand our universe
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The war was fought between the northern German states against the southern German states who sided with the Catholic Church.
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The Parliament of Britain passes laws to limit their monarch's power
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Louis rules as a absolute monarch and is one of the longest reigning monarchs in the history of France
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The English Civil War is fought between Parliament and the monarch Charles i
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After years of a stalemate the Puritans recruit Oliver Cromwell to help defeat the Loyaltist
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Charles the i is taken as a prisoner when Puritan forces defeat the Loyalist forces
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Charles is brought to trial and is sentenced to death
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Thomas Hobbes publishes his book talking about how people are naturally evil and need a strong absolute monarch to keep them in check.
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After Oliver dies and his government crumbles Parliament asks Charles ii to become king of England
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Charles the ii returns to England and is crowned as the ruling monarch
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Isaac discovers one of the most famous scientific laws
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Louis the xiv builds Versailles which may or may ruin France's economy
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During his rule he helps modernize Russia
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Charles ii dies and since he never had children his brother James the ii becomes king of England
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James' daughter and her husband William iii overthrow him making them the ruling monarchs
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After the Glorious Revolution the British Parliament passes this bill to limit the power of royal power in England
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A English Enlightenment thinker John Locke spoke against the monarchy
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Enlightenment thinker Montesquien publishes his famous book
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French enlightenment thinker Voltaire writes against the monarchy and the clergy
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enlightenment thinker Jean writes and publishes his work
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Fredrick the great dies after ruling as a absolute monarch
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The French National Assembly publishes the Declaration of Rights of Men and Citizens
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Thousands of women march to the French king's palace and drags him back to Paris
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After being kicked out of the Estate General Meeting the 3rd Estate generals take the Tennis Court oath
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French citizens of the 3rd Estate storm the prison sparking the revolution
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Revolution radical Robespierre starts Reign of Terror until he is beheaded which ends the Reign of Terror
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Louis xvi is executed by French revolutionaries
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Napoleon crowns himself as the Emperor of France and he crowns his wife as empress
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Britain helps Spain drive off French forces from Spain
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Napoleon attempts to invade Russia with 600,000 troops only 94,000 return
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Napoleon's army battles against an alliance of countries and is defeated with Napoleon being exiled
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Napoleon returns to his former glory for a hundred days
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Napoleon is faced against another alliance of countries which again defeats his army and Napoleon is sent back into exile
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Famous painter and a supporter of the Enlightenment he creates this painting