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Jan 1, 1350
The Renaissance begins
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Jan 1, 1418
Prince Henry's school of Navigation is founded
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Jan 1, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
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Jan 1, 1481
Peak of Ottoman Empire
Goes from 1481-1566 -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus discovers America
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Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Jan 1, 1498
Vasco de Gama finds water route around the tip of Africa
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Jan 1, 1507
Mona Lisa finished
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Jan 1, 1509
Erasmus’ Praise of Folly
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Oct 31, 1517
95 Theses
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Jan 1, 1518
Tobacco introduced to Europe
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Jan 1, 1519
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
Circumnavigation was from 1519-1522 -
Aug 13, 1521
Cortes conquers the Aztecs
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Jan 1, 1526
Start of Mughal Empire
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Jan 1, 1533
Pizzaro conquers the Incans
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Jan 1, 1536
Anglican Church started
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus’s Heliocentric theory published
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Jan 1, 1545
Council of Trent
Met from 1545 to 1563 -
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
First performance -
Galileo's first telescope
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30 Years War
War was fought from 1618-1648 -
William Harvey discovers circulation of blood
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René Descartes's Discourse on Method
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Taj Mahal opened
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Newton's Laws of Gravity published