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Jan 1, 1400
1400 CE
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Period: Jan 1, 1412 to May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc grew up at a French peasant girl, she led the French army to several victories in the Hundred Years War. She was burned at the stake for heresy when she was nineteen years old. -
Period: Jan 1, 1455 to Jan 1, 1485
Wars of the Roses
The war between the House of York and the House of Lancaster for the English crown. -
Jan 1, 1480
Moscow Becomes Independent of Mongols
The invention of firearms led Russian citizens to cast out Mongol rule. -
Jan 1, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus
Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus shows that the earth revolves around the sun -
Death of Ivan IV
Ivan the Terrible was the first Russian ruler to be crowned Czar. Upon his death someone claimed to be his son gathered a following of cossacks and marched on Moscow. -
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The Thirty Years War
Began as a religious civil war between Protestants and Roman Catholics in Germany. First the Danes, then the Swedes, then the French finally intervened and left Germany divided. -
Portugal Revolts Against Spain
Portugal revolts against Spain, while technically independent, they were being led by the Spanish king. -
Great Fire of London
The fire started on Sep. 2 and burnt down most of London, including 13,200 houses, 87 churches, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Only six verified deaths were recorded. -
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The Great Northern War
The Swedes fought against the Russians, and there were multiple battles, that each had different victors. In the end, Russia beat the Swedes with a final battle, that caused the Swedes to escape to Turkey. -
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Turkish Wars
Russia got into three different wars with the Turkish empire. Russia defeated the Ottomans and the Turks all three times. -
Smallpox Vaccine
Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine after observing that those with cowpox did not contract smallpox. -
Slave Trade Act
The UK Parliament passed this act to abolish slavery in the UK. -
Stephenson's Rocket
George Stephenson built the most advanced steam locomotive of the time for use by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway -
Eiffel Tower Built in Paris
The Eiffel tower was built by Gustave Eiffel for the World's Fair. -
Albert Einstein Developed Special Theory of Relativity
Einstein developed this theory describing the physical theory of measurement in an internal frame of reference. -
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World War I
The war started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended with the founding of the Weimar Republic of Germany. -
Russian Economic Collapse
5 million Russian citizens die from famine due to complete economic collapse. -
Discovery of Penicillin
Alexander Fleming discovered a halo of inhibition of bacterial growth around a contaminant mould on a Staphylococcus plate culture. He concentrated the mould and named it Penicillin. -
Women's Suffrage Granted in England
After the 1832 Reform Act, women were not allowed to vote. It was not until after the beginnings of World War I that women were granted the right again. -
Germany Invades Poland
In 1939, Adolf Hitler led the Germans into Poland, marking the beginning of World War II. -
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World War II
The war started with Germany invading Poland and ended after America dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. -
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The Cold War
The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers of the Western world. -
Soviet Hydrogen Bomb
The first successful test of a hydrogen bomb -
Launch of Sputnik 1
The Soviet Union launches the first Earth satellite into space. -
First Man in Space
Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. -
Chernobyl Meltdown
The meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Ukraine, then under direct control of the Soviet Union, caused the release of a large of amount of radiation in the atmosphere. -
1990 CE