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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Sep 25, 1291
Crusades are fought
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Oct 7, 1300
Renaissance begins
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Sep 25, 1337
100 years war begins
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Oct 4, 1347
Black Death begins in Europe
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Period: Oct 3, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty
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Period: Oct 9, 1405 to Oct 9, 1433
Voyages of Zheng He
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May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
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Oct 7, 1440
Johannes Gutenburg = printing press
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Oct 3, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constinople
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Oct 3, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
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Oct 9, 1492
Jews, Gypsies, and moors expelled from Spain
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Oct 3, 1498
Da Gama Islands in India
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Period: Oct 7, 1500 to
Slave Trade across Atlantic
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Period: Oct 4, 1502 to
Safavid Empire
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Period: Oct 3, 1503 to Oct 3, 1507
Da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
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Oct 3, 1507
Naming of the New World
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Oct 4, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
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Oct 7, 1512
Copernicus publishes Heliocentric theory
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Oct 3, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 thesis
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Oct 7, 1519
Magellan starts his "around the world trip"
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Oct 9, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
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Oct 7, 1528
Pizarro invades the Inca Empire
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Oct 7, 1533
Elizebeth I becomes Queen of England
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Oct 3, 1534
Henry VIII founds Angelican Church
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Period: Oct 3, 1545 to Oct 3, 1564
Council of Trent
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Period: Oct 3, 1556 to
Philip II rules Spain
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Jamestown colony in Virginia founded
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Louis XIV becomes king of France
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Quing dynasty in China begins
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Oliver Cromwell rules England
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Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
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Peter I (Peter the Great) becomes Czar
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Age of Enlightenment
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Catherine the Great rules Russia
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Period: to
Catherine the Great rules Russia
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U.S. Constitution is ratified
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French Revolution begins
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Reign of terror begins
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
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Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
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Tokugawa Shogunate ends
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Tokugwa Shogunate Ends