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1494
Italian Wars
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1517
Martin Luther Publishes 95 Theses
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1521
Edict of Worms
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1524
Peasant's War
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1531
Swiss Civil War
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1533
Anabaptists Settle in Münster
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1534
Act of Supremacy in England
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1535
Thomas More Executed
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1536
John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
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1540
Jesuit Order Founded
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1542
Start of Roman Inquisition
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1543
Nicolaus Copernicus Publishes On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
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1545
Council of Trent
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1555
Peace of Augsburg
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1558
Reign of Elizabeth I
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1560
Scotland Becomes Calvinist
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1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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Edict of Nantes
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Francis Bacon publishes Novum Organum
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Galileo Galilei Publishes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
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René Descartes Publishes Discourse on the Method
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Thomas Hobbes Publishes Leviathan
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John Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government
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Baron de Montesquieu Publishes The Spirit of Law
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Publishes Discourse on Inequality
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Voltaire Publishes Candide