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Period: Nov 22, 1440 to Nov 23, 1449
Invention of the Printing Press
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Nov 22, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
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Nov 22, 1492
Ferdinand and Isabella complete the Reconquista
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Period: Nov 22, 1492 to Nov 23, 1502
Voyages of Christopher Columbus
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Period: Nov 22, 1494 to Nov 23, 1559
The Italian Wars (Hapsburg-Valois Wars)
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Period: Dec 5, 1500 to
Witch Trials
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Period: Nov 22, 1508 to Nov 23, 1512
Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
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Nov 22, 1513
Machiavelli publishes The Prince
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Nov 22, 1517
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
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Period: Nov 22, 1525 to
Price Revolution
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Nov 22, 1532
African slave trade begins
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Nov 22, 1534
Act of Supremacy
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Dec 5, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
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Period: Nov 22, 1545 to Nov 23, 1563
Council of Trent
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Nov 22, 1555
Peace of Augsburg
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Spanish Armada
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Edict of Nantes
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Dutch East India Company established
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Trial of Galileo
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René Descartes publishes Discourse on Method
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English Civil War
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Reign of Louis XIV
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Peace of Westphalia
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Agricultural Revolution
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French Royal Academy founded
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Thomas Hobbes publishes The Leviathan
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First British Navigation Acts
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Edict of Nantes revoked
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René Descartes publishes Discourse on Method
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Glorious Revolution
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John Locke publishes Second Treatise on Government
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Growth of cottage industry
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Peace of Utrecht
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Montesquieu, Persian Letters
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Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
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Diderot, Encyclopedia
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Rousseau, The Social Contract; Emile
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Treaty of Paris (Seven Years War)
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Smith The Wealth of Nations
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Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Condorcet, The Progress of the Human Mind