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Period: 1282 to
Hapsburg Dynasty
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1347
Bubonic Plague begins
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Period: 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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1431
Joan of Arc burnend
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1439
Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
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1448
Prince Henry the Navigator builds school for sailors.
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Period: 1450 to 1550
Italian Renaissance
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Period: 1450 to
Commercial Revolution
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Period: 1450 to
Northern Renaissance
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1453
Turkish Empire cuts off the land route for spices from Asia to Europe. Search for sea route begins
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1455
The Wars of the Roses
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1478
The Spainish Inquistion begins
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1487
Botticelli paints The Birth of Venus.
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Period: 1487 to
Tuuotrs dynasty
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1488
Bartolomeu Dias
Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. -
1492
Columbus discovers America.
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1493
The Line of Demarcation
Pope Alexander VI divided the non-European territory into two parts, one for Spain and the other for Portugal. -
1494
The Medici are Ousted from Florence
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1496
Habsburg marital alliances
Philip, heir to Austria, marries Joanna, a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, in the second of the great Habsburg marital alliances -
1497
Amerigo Vespucci
After exploring the Northern coast of South America, he claimed it was not Asia but a new continent! -
1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.
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Period: 1514 to
Triangular Trade
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1517
Protestant Reformation
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1520
High Point of the Northern Renaissance
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1524
Hernán Cortés
Defeats the Aztecs. -
Period: 1525 to
Columbian Exchange
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Period: 1526 to
Slave Trade
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May 6, 1527
The Sack of Rome
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1533
Henry the 8th of England excommunicated
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1556
Charles V abdicates
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1558
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 1
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1571
The Reformation Movement Begins
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East India Company
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Decline of the Northern Renaissance
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fricans in English America are brought to the Jamestown Colony
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The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
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The Treaty of Hubertusburg
The Treaty of Hubertusburg, between Prussia and Austria, increases the power of Prussia among the many separate states of Germany -
The peak of the transatlantic slave trade is reached
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France declares war on the Austrian emperor
event that plunges Europe into more than 20 years of conflict -
Great Britain abolishes the slave trade with its colonies
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The U.S. Congress bans the importation of slaves into the country
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Spain signs a treaty with Britain
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Potato Famine
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Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, is also crowned king of Hungary
Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, is also crowned king of Hungary – to become ruler of the 'dual monarchy' of Austria-Hungary