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Jan 1, 1450
Printing Press Invented by Johannes Gutenburg
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Oct 12, 1492
Cristopher Columbus Lands in San Salvador
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May 25, 1498
Vasco De Gamma makes all water trip to India
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Apr 3, 1513
Ponce de Leon lands in Flordia
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Oct 31, 1517
German Monk Martin Luther nails his nintey five theses to church door
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Nov 8, 1519
Cortez conqures the Aztecs
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Jan 1, 1524
France sends Giovanni Verrazano to search for the Northwest Passage
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Nov 17, 1531
Pizzaro conqures Incas
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Jan 1, 1534
Jacques Cartier claims the St. Lawrence Seaway and parts of Canada for France
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Nov 1, 1534
King Henry VIII breaks from the roman cathlic church and found the Anglican Church
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Jan 1, 1541
Hernando De Soto discovers the Mississippi River
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Jan 1, 1552
Bartolome de Las Casa writes A Shrot Account of The Destruction of The Indies
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Sep 1, 1565
St. Augustine, Flordia is Founded (Oldest city in U.S)
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Sir Walter Raleigh found Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina
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Spanish Armada is Defeated and England becomes mistress of the seas
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Captain John White returns to Roanoke.
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Jamestown is founded by the London Company of England
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Samual de Champlain founded Quebec
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The Dutch send Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage
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The Dutch West India Company sends settlers to New Netherlands.
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Dutch West India Company sent settler to setle in New Netherlands
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Peter Minuit purchases Manhattan Island from the Native Americans
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New Amsterdam is founded by Peter Minuit.
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Peter Miniut helped the Sweedish found Ft. Christina on the Delaware river
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Ft. Christina is founded
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French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explore the Mississippi River
