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500
Middle Ages Begin
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Jan 1, 1000
leaf earkson explores 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, 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
chris columbus discoveres america
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Jan 1, 1493
Christopher Columbus founds the first Spanish colony in the Americas
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Jan 1, 1493
Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press
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Aug 1, 1497
John Cabot discovers a "new-found island" in the name of the English king and thinks it's Asia
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Jan 1, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails around southern tip of Africa to India
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Jan 1, 1500
First African slaves begin to be brought across the Atlantic to New Spain
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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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Jan 1, 1517
German monk, Martin Luther, challenges Catholic Church
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan leaves Spain (with 250 crew members and 5 ships) to sail around the world
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Nov 8, 1519
Hernando Cortes marches into the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan
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Jan 1, 1522
Magellan's crew returns, with only 1 ship and 18 crew members
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Jan 1, 1524
Giovanni Verrazano explores the coast of North America for France
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Jan 1, 1530
Jacques Cartier explores the St. Lawrence River for France
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Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro captures the Incan emperor, Atahualpa
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Jan 1, 1535
Spanish king divides conquered land into New Spain and Peru, and establishes the "Laws of the Indies
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Sir Walter Raleigh sets sail for North America and attempts to colonize Roanoke Island
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Renaissance Ends
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Virginia founded
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Henry Hudson explores the New York harbor and Hudson River for the Dutch
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Henry Hudson explores the Hudson Bay for England
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First African slaves are brought to Jamestown, VA
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First African slaves are brought to Jamestown, VA
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Pilgrims settle in what is now Massachusetts
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New Hampshire founded
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- New York founded
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Puritans settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Maryland founded
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New Jersey founded
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Rhode Island founded
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Connecticut founded
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Delaware founded
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The Carolinas founded
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Pennsylvania founded
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Glorious Revolution
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Glorious Revolution
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English Bill of Rights signed
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English Bill of Rights signed
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North Carolina founded
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South Carolina founded
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Georgia founded
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- French and Indian War begins at Battle of Fort Necessity
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French troops defeat General Braddock
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Quebec surrenders to the British
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British troops take Montreal, ending the French & Indian War fighting in North America
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Treaty of Paris is signed between Britain & France, ending the French & Indian War
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- Stamp Act
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- Stamp Act
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The Proclamation of 1763
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Sugar Act and Stamp Act are repealed
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Townshend Acts
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Boston Massacre
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Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
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First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
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Battle of Lexington, AKA "The Shot Heard Round The World
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Battle of Concord
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Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
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Ethan Allen & the Green Mountain Boys take over Fort Ticonderoga
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Second Continental Congress sets up the Continental Army
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British victory in the Battle of Bunker Hill
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Richard Montgomery and American troops seize control of Montreal
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Benedict Arnold and American troops fail to capture Quebec
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Thomas Paine finishes writing and distributes "Common Sense
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- British troops leave Boston, leaving it in control of the Americans
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The Declaration of Independence is accepted by delegates at the Continental Congress
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British victory at the Battle of Long Island
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- American victory at the Battle of Trenton
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American victory at the Battle of Saratoga
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Articles of Confederation written
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Washington and troops camp at Valley Forge
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British seize Savannah, GA
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American victory at the Battle of Vincennes
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Articles of Confederation ratified
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Constitutional Convention begins in Philadelphia
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Northwest Ordinance
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Constitutional Convention 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 Madison 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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Franklin Pierce takes office as POTUS
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James Buchanan takes office as POTUS
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Abraham Lincoln takes office as POTUS
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Andrew Johnson takes office as POTUS
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Ulysses Simpson Grant takes office as POTUS
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes takes office as POTUS
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James Garfield takes office as POTUS
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Chester Arthur takes office as POTUS
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Grover Cleveland takes office as POTUS
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Benjamin Harrison takes office as POTUS
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Grover Cleveland takes office as POTUS (for the second time
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William McKinley takes office as POTUS
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Theodore Roosevelt takes office as POTUS
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William Howard Taft takes office as POTUS
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Woodrow Wilson takes office as POTUS
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Warren Harding takes office as POTUS
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Calvin Coolidge takes office as POTUS
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Herbert Hoover takes office as POTUS
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes office as POTUS
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Harry S Truman takes office as POTUS
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Dwight D. Eisenhower takes office as POTUS
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy takes office as POTUS
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Lyndon B. Johnson takes office as POTUS
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Richard M. Nixon takes office as POTUS
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Gerald Ford takes office as POTUS
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Jimmy Carter takes office as POTUS
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Ronald Reagan takes office as POTUS
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George H. W. Bush takes office as POTUS
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William Jefferson Clinton takes office as POTUS
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– George W. Bush takes office as POTUS
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al qaeda attacts the united states
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bracka obama takes office as poltus