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476
Fall of the Roman Empire
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570
Prophet Mohammed born at Mecca
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991
Guido D'Arezzo
Italian, died 1033 -
991
Guido D'Arezzo
From Northeastern Italy, then Arezzo, died after 1033 -
1098
Hildegard of Bingen
Holy Roman Empire, died 1179 -
1099
First Crusade conquers Jerusalem
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1135
Leonin
From Paris, died 1201 -
1150
Perotin
From Paris -
1215
Magna Carta
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1300
Guillaume de Machaut
From Riems, died 1377 -
1338
The Hundred Years War
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1348
English faces Black Death Plague
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1450
Josquin Desprez; Juschino; Joducus Pratensis, Joducus a Prato
From Northern France, died 1521 -
1492
Discovery of America
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1498
Vasco de Gama reaches India
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1505
Jacques or Jacob Arcadelt
From France or Belgium, died 1568 -
1517
Martin Luther sets off the Reformation
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1525
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
Italian, died 1564 -
1567
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi
From Venice, Italy, died 1643 -
British East India Company founded
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Henry Purcell
From London, died 1695 -
Great Plague of England
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Glorious Revolution in England
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
From Venice, Italy, died 1741 -
Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravity
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Georg Friedrich Handel
German, died 1759 -
Guiseppe Domenico Scarlatti
From Naples, Italy, died 1757 -
Franz Joseph Haydn
From Eastern Austria, died 1809 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
German, died 1750 -
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
Austrian, died 1791 -
Ludwig Van Beethoven
German, died 1827 -
Declaration of American Independence
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George Washington elected President of America
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Death of Napolean
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American Civil War
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Panama Canal
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World War I
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Hitler becomes German Chancellor
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Pearl Harbor attack
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Lunar Landing