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In 1419, Henry founded a navigation school on the southwestern coast of Portugal. Mapmakers, instrument makers, shipbuilders, scientists, and sea captains gathered there to perfect their trade.
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The marriage links the house of Castile (Isabella) and Ferdinand (Aragon), creating the kingdom of Spain.
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First European to sail around the south coast of Africa and up along the east coast. Spain is no longer interested in financing Columbus' voyage west.
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Originally searching for a quicker route to Asia, Columbus instead discovered the Carribean islands. Columbus started the expedition into the New World.
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Led the first expedition to sail completely around the world. Proved that the world was round and larger than thought. Discovered new oceans and land. Proved that all oceans and landmasses were connected.
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Here, he displayed the heliocentric model, the sun in the middle and Earth spinning around it.
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This publishing contains his first and second laws.
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Some discoveries, such as Sunspots and the Moons of Jupiter.
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The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. One of the most destructive conflicts in human history, it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine, and plague. Wikipedia
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Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued science could be achieved by use of a skeptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves.
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The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists principally over the manner of England's governance. Wikipedia
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The Fronde was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. King Louis XIV confronted the combined opposition of the princes, the nobility, the law courts, and most of the French people, and yet won out in the end. Wikipedia
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In London, King Charles I is beheaded for treason on January 30, 1649. Charles ascended to the English throne in 1625 following the death of his father, King James I. In the first year of his reign, Charles offended his Protestant subjects by marrying Henrietta Maria, a Catholic French princess.
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Isaac Newton composed Principia Mathematica during 1685 and 1686,and it was published in a first edition on 5 July 1687. Widely regarded as one of the most important works in both the science of physics and in applied mathematics during the Scientific Revolution, the work underlies much of the technological and scientific advances from the Industrial Revolution (usually dated from 1750) which it helped to create.
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Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. Wikipedia
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