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The printing press in invented by Gutenberg.
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Constantinople's fall
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Granada is reconquered by the Catholic Kings of Castile and Aragon.
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America is discovered by Christopher Colombus.
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India is reached by Vasco de Gama.
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Reformation is set off by Martin Luther.
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The Earth is circum-vigated for the first time by Juan Sebastian El Cano.
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Henry the 8th is excommunicated by the Pope and Anglicanism is born.
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The Copernican Revolution was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the center of the universe.
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African slaves are transported to America for the 1st time.
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The Spanish Armada is defeated in front of the Bristish coast.
