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Period: Nov 13, 1337 to Jan 17, 1443
Hundred Years' War
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Period: Apr 14, 1346 to Apr 14, 1400
Black Death
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Apr 14, 1350
Petrarch founds humanism
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Apr 29, 1419
Prince Henry forms navigation school
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Period: Jan 16, 1430 to
Age of Exploration
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Period: Jan 1, 1440 to
Renaissance
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Apr 14, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press
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Period: Apr 29, 1450 to Apr 29, 1485
War of the Roses (England)
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Jun 21, 1488
Bartholomieu Dias finds Cape of Good Hope
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Aug 14, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches "West Indies"
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Apr 29, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Apr 29, 1497
Giovanni Cabot sails to North America
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Jul 15, 1497
Vasco da Gama reaches India
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Jul 16, 1499
Amerigo Vespucci discovers Columbus' New World
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Apr 14, 1500
Pedro Cabral finds South America
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Jul 24, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts David
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Apr 14, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Period: Jan 1, 1517 to
Reformation
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther nails 95 Theses on Church door in Wittenberg, Germany
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Mar 13, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the globe
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Jun 17, 1522
Giovanni Verrazano claims New World for France
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Aug 7, 1532
Jacques Cartier sails down St. Lawrence River
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Period: Apr 29, 1533 to
Ivan the Terrible rules Russia
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Apr 29, 1534
Anglican Church created (Act of Supremacy)
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Jan 1, 1543
Nicholas Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
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Period: Mar 16, 1543 to
Scientific Revolution
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Sep 25, 1555
Peace of Augsburg (in Germany, legalizes Protestants and Catholics)
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Apr 29, 1559
Elizabethan Settlement
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Jun 16, 1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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Reign of Henry IV in France
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Edict of Nantes
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Galileo writes The Starry Messenger
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30 Years' War
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William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood
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English Civil War
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Louis XIV's Reign in France
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Louis XIV rules France
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Peace of Westphalia (ends 30 Years' War)
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Agricultural Revolution
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Restoration (Charles II restores Stuart rule in Great Britain)
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Glorious Revolution
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Enlightenment
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War of Spanish Succession
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Steam Engine is invented
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Treaty of Utrecht (ends war of Spanish Succession)
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War of Austrian Succession
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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (ended War of Austrian Succession)
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Montesquieu - Spirit of the Law
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Industrial Revolution
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French/Indian War
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American Revolution
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Declaration of Independence
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Treaty of Paris, 1783 (Ends American Revolution)
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French Revolution
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Reign of Terror
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Reign of Napoleon
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Concordat of 1801
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Plebiscite of 1803
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Congress of Vienna
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Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
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Decembrist Revolt (Russia)
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July Revolution in France
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Victorian Age in Great Britain
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Revolutions of 1848
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Louis Pasteur develops germ theory
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Unification of Italy
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Civil War in USA
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Emancipation of serfs in Russia
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Louis Pasteur develops vaccines
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New Imperialism
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Unification of Germany
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Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
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Congress of Berlin
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Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, Italy) is formed
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Volkism is rebirthed
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Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, Russia) is formed
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Henry Ford invents Model T
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World War I
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Versailles Treaty (ends WWI)
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Stock Market Crash in USA
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Adolf Hitler becomes ruler in Nazi Germany
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Munich Conference
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Germany invades Poland
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World War II
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Normandy Invasion (D-Day)
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Germany Surrenders in WWII
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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First Vietnam War
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Cold War
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Korean War
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Second Vietnam War
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6-Day War
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Watergate Scandal
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Germany reunified
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Maastricht Treaty
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