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Feb 13, 1418
Prince Henry the Navigator opens maritime school
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Feb 13, 1440
J. Gutenberg develops movable type
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Period: Feb 13, 1473 to Feb 13, 1543
Copernicus
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Feb 13, 1492
Columbus reaches the New World
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Period: Feb 13, 1508 to Feb 13, 1512
Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel
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Feb 13, 1509
D. Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly
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Period: Feb 13, 1509 to Feb 13, 1547
Reign of Henry VIII of England
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Feb 13, 1513
N. Machiavelli’s The Prince
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Feb 13, 1517
M. Luther, 95 Theses
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Period: Feb 13, 1519 to Feb 13, 1521
H. Cortés interacts with Aztecs
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Period: Feb 13, 1519 to Feb 13, 1522
Magellan circumnavigates the world
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Feb 13, 1528
Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
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Feb 13, 1534
Act of Supremacy
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Feb 13, 1536
Est. of the Jesuits
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Period: Feb 13, 1545 to Feb 13, 1563
Council of Trent
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Feb 13, 1555
Peace of Augsburg
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Period: Feb 13, 1556 to
Reign of Philip II of Spain
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Period: Feb 13, 1558 to
Reign of Elizabeth I of England
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Period: Feb 13, 1564 to
W. Shakespeare
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Feb 13, 1572
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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John Calvin
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René Descartes
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Edict of Nantes
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Baroque Period
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Rembrandt
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Reign of Gustavus II of Sweden
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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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30 Years’ War
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Mayflower Compact
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John Locke
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Cardinal Richelieu’s tenure as Chief Minister to Louis XIII
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Trial of Galileo
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Reign of Louis XIV of France
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Isaac Newton
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Peace of Westphalia
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Reign of Peter the Great
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Glorious Revolution
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War of Spanish Succession
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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War of Austrian Succession
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Montesquieu, On the Spirit of the Laws
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French & Indian War
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Thomas Pains, Common Sense
1776 -
Period: to Feb 13, 1492
Reconquista of Spain