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Polynesians arrived in New Zealand. (Arrival of the Great Fleet)
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Minamoto clan seizes power in the emperor's name. Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes shogun, and establishes his own capital city in Kamakura.
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The Ottoman Empire was a dynasty started by Osman Bey lasted for 623 years from 1922 to 1299.
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Karakorum is established as the Mongol capital on the River Orkhan.
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The empire starts to break apart after the death of Kublai Khan.
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The city of Tenochtitlan started to be built by the Aztecs shortly after they arrived at Lake Texcoco.
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The Black Death arrives in Sicily.
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Plague has widely spread amoung the Mediterranean basin.
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Around 35 million deaths were recorded in China since 1333 from the plague.
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Angkor was abandoned after a further invasion by Ayutthaya.
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The famous Leonardo da Vinci was born.
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Japan and rivals, samurai warlords get into a century-long civil war.
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Suleiman was born in Trebizond, Turkey in 1494. Suleiman was the 10th and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
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Spain and Portugal signed an agreement of Tordisillas, which was meant to seperate the globe into 2 spheres of influence, so that the 2 empires wouldn't interfere with each others explorations and conquests.
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Michelangelo finished the famous paintings that were on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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The world's first thermometer was invented in 1600 by Galileo Galilei.
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Captain Cook arrives in New Zealand and claims the land for Great Britain.
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Angkor was rediscovered by a French archaeologist Henri Mouhot.
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The king of France makes a truce with the invading vikings led by Rollo. The Vikings were given a piece of land, which becomes the Duchy of Normandy.
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The English King, Aethelred pays Danish Vikings the first tax to them known as the Danegeld, to stop them continuing to invade England.
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