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Jan 14, 622
Beginning of Islam
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Jan 1, 1054
1st Schism in Christian church
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Jan 1, 1100
Cotton introduced by Muslims to Africa
become popular among African elites -
Jan 1, 1258
Mongols sack Baghdad
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Jan 1, 1337
Hundred Years' War begin
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Jan 1, 1347
Bubonic Plague in Europe
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Period: Jan 1, 1347 to Jan 1, 1348
Bubonic Plague in Europe
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Jan 1, 1433
End of Zheng He's voyages
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Jan 1, 1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople
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Jan 1, 1453
End of Hundred Years' War
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomew Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope
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Jan 1, 1492
End of Reconquista (Granada conquered)
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus reaches San Salvador
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Jan 1, 1499
Vasco da Gama returns to Lisbon with spices
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Jan 1, 1502
First Slave to the Caribbean
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Jan 1, 1513
Balboa sights the Pacific Ocean
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther's 95 Thesis
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Jan 1, 1517
Ottoman conquest of Egypt
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Jan 1, 1522
Magellan crew's circumnavigation
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Declaratin of Independence signed