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Apr 6, 1453
1453- Ottomans capture Constantinople
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Sep 24, 1488
Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
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Apr 24, 1492
1492- Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/Reconquista of Spain
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Aug 3, 1502
First slaves to Caribbean
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther/ 95 Theses
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Aug 13, 1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
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Apr 24, 1533
Pizarro toppled the Inca
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Apr 1, 1545
Discovery of silver at Potosi
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Oct 7, 1571
Battle of Lepanto - naval defeat of Ottomans
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Battle of Sekigahara- beginning of Tokugawa shogunate
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Founding of Jamestown
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30 years war
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Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
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Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights
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7 years war/ French and Indian war
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American Revolution/ Smith writes Wealth of Nations
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French Revolution
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Haitian Independence
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Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna
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1st Opium war
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uropean revolution/ Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto
