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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1291
Crusades are fought
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Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance Begins
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Jan 1, 1337
100 Years War begins
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Jan 1, 1347
Black Death begins in Europe
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Period: Jan 1, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty in China
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Period: Jan 1, 1405 to Jan 1, 1433
Voyages of Zheng He
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Jan 1, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
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Jan 1, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
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Jan 1, 1455
Johannes Gutenberg - printing press
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Jan 1, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
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Jan 1, 1492
Jews, gypsies & moors expelled from Spain
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Jan 1, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Slave trade across Atlantic
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Safavis Empire
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Jan 1, 1502
Naming of the "new World"
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Period: Jan 1, 1503 to Jan 1, 1507
Da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa"
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Jan 1, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 theses
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Jan 1, 1519
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
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Jan 1, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
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Jan 1, 1534
Henry VIII founds Anglican Church
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Jan 1, 1537
Pizarro invades the Inca Empire
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
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Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563
Council of Trent
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Period: Jan 1, 1556 to
Philip II rules spain
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Jan 1, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
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Period: to
Age of Enlightenment
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Jamestown, colony in Virginia, founded
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Louis XIV becomes King of France
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Qing Dynasty in China begins
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Thomas Hobbes writes Levaithan
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Oliver Cromwell rules England
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Peter I (the Great) becomes Czar
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Period: to
Catherine the Great rules Russia
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French Revolution begins
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U.S. Constitution is ratified
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Reign of Terror begins
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
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Napoleon defeated @ Waterloo
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Tokugawa Shogunate ends
