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The Renaissance begins in Italy.
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Prince Henry founded Navigation school in Portugal
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The Byzantine capital of Constantinople is conquered by Muslim Ottomans and is renamed Istanbul
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Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas
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The pope drew a line dividing the land between Spain and Portugal.
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David is sculpted by Michelangelo
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The Mono Lisa is painted by Leonardo da Vinci
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The Praise of Folly is writen by Erasmus
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The Sistine Chapel is painted by Michelangelo
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Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire.
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Francisco Pizzaro conquered the Inca Empire
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Nicolaus Copernicus developed the heliocentric theory that states the sun is the center of the universe.
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is writen by Shakespeare
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Galileo Galilei used the telescope to show evidence of the heliocentric theory.
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Johannes Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion that explain how planets move around the sun.
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William Harvey discovered the circulation of blood from the heart throughout the body.
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Oliver Cromwell executes Charles I for treason
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Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan critisizing society and government.
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The Taj Mahal is built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal
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The monarchy is restored when Charles II comes to power.
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King Louis XIV builds the Palace of Versailles making it one of the largest palaces in the world.
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Isaac Newton developed the laws of gravity.
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King James II is overthrown and William and Mary came to power to prevent a Catholic monarch.
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John Locke wrote Two Treatises of Government which said that all men are created equal and that the people have the right to overthrow their government if it is not serving them.
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Set limits on the king and guarenteed freedom of speech and the freedom to petition the king.
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Peter the Great moves the capital of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It becomes a seaport known as the window to Europe.
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After King Louis XIV died, people celebrated his death, but France was in shambles.
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Montesquieu wrote The Spirti of the Laws which called for a seperation of power in government to prevent one branch from gaining too much power.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the Social Contract saying that the strength for a government comes from the people.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence which declared the 13 colonies were no longer a part of British control
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The Americans support the Declaration of Independence and win independence from Britain.
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The Third Estate raided the jail for weapons to attack the royal family
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Many people were killed who were thought ot be enemys of the state who might rebel.
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Napoleon Bonaparte came to power and declared himself emperor of France. His main goal was to unify Europe under French control.
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The Congress of Vienna met to try to restore Europe to before the French Revolution and the Nepoleonic Wars.
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Napoleon dies and the Congress of Vienna restores the monarchys he destroyed.
