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1492
Columbus lands in Hispaniola
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1517
Martin Luther's 95 theses
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1519
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
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1521
Cortez conquers the Mexica
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1532
Pizarro conquers the Inca
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1533
Henry VIII breaks with the Church
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1533
Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar
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1541
John Calvin begins ministry in Geneva
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Period: 1545 to 1563
Council of Trent
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1553
Mary Tudor re-establishes Catholicism in England
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1555
Peace of Augsburg
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1558
Queen Elizabeth is crowned
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Edict of Nantes
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Baroque period
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Kepler discovers first law of planetary motion
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Hamlet is first performed
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Galileo develops his first telescope
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Spain expels 300k muslims
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Period: to
Thirty year's war
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Pope prosecutes Galileo for promoting heliocentricity
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Glorious Revolution in England
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Louis XIV is crowned in France
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Edict of Nantes revoked
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Johann Bach is born
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Newton publishes principles of mathematics
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Peter the Great becomes Tsar
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Period: to
Rococo period
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1st King of Prussia
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Peace of Utrecht
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Samuel Richardson's Pamela is published
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Montesquieu publishes Spirit of the Laws
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Diderot publishes Encyclopedie
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Voltaire publishes Candide
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Rousseau publishes The Social Contract
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Goethe publishes The Sorrows of Young Werther
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American Revolution begins
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Paine publishes Common Sense
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Thomas Jefferson writes Declaration of Independence
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Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason
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French Revolution begins