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500
Middle Ages Begin
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Jan 1, 1000
Leif Ericson explores North America
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Jan 1, 1100
Crusades begin
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Jan 1, 1300
Crusades end
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Jan 1, 1350
Middle Ages End
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Jan 1, 1350
Renaissance Begins
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Jan 1, 1400
Portuguese Prince Henry encourages sea captains to sail south along the coast of Africa
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Jan 1, 1439
Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias reaches southern tip of Africa
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Aug 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus “discovers” America
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Jan 1, 1493
Christopher Columbus founds the first Spanish colony in the Americas
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Jan 1, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails around southern tip of Africa to India
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Jan 1, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see the Pacific Ocean, after crossing the isthmus of Panama
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Renaissance Ends
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George Washington takes office as POTUS
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John Adams takes office as POTUS
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Thomas Jefferson takes office as POTUS
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James Monroe takes office as POTUS
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John Quincy Adams takes office as POTUS
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Andrew Jackson takes office as POTUS
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Martin Van Buren takes office as POTUS
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William Henry Harrison takes office as POTUS
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John Tyler takes office as POTUS
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James Knox Polk takes office as POTUS
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Zachary Taylor takes office as POTUS
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Millard Fillmore takes office as POTUS
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Al Qaeda attacks the United States
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Barack Obama takes office as POTUS
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Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
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James Madison takes office as POTUS
