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Old Regime

  • 1501

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    War between France and Spain for control of the Kingdom of Naples.
  • Period: 1501 to

    XVI century

  • 1508

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    Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel.
  • 1517

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    Protestant Reformation of Martin Luther.
  • 1519

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    Barbarossa sweeps the south of France.
  • 1519

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    Hernán Cortés defeats the Aztecs.
  • 1522

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    Juan Sebastián Elcano goes around the world in Magellan's expedition.
  • 1527

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    Charles V's troops enter Rome.
  • 1529

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    The Austrians defeat the Ottomans at the Siege of Vienna.
  • 1529

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    The Philippines enter the Spanish Empire.
  • 1530

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    Coronation of Carlos I (Carlos V) as Holy Roman Emperor
  • 1532

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    Pizarro begins the conquest of the Inca Empire.
  • 1538

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    The city of Bogotá is founded.
  • 1554

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    The Portuguese founded the city of São Paulo.
  • 1554

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    El Lazarillo de Tormes is published.
  • 1571

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    Catholic armies defeat the Ottomans at the Naval Battle of Lepanto.
  • 1579

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    Union of Utretch between the provinces opposed to the Spaniards in the Netherlands.
  • 1580

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    Philip II is crowned king of the Spanish and Portuguese crown.
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    Disaster of the Invincible Navy.
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    Galileo Galilei invents the thermometer.
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    XVII century

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    The first part of Don Quixote is published.
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    Peace between the Ottoman Empire and Austria.
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    The Romanov Dynasty begins in Russia.
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    Expulsion of the last Moors from Spain.
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    The Thirty Years' War begins in Europe.
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    St. Peter's Cathedral is completed in the Vatican.
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    War of Restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain
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    Conquest of China by the Manchus. The Ming Dynasty ends and the Qing Dynasty begins..
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    The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.
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    Robert Hooke discovers the cells by telescope.
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    Lisbon Peace Treaty between Spain and Portugal.
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    Battle of Vienna against the Ottomans.
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    Newton's Laws.
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    King Charles II dies.
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    XVIII century

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    Austria declares war on France and Spain.
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    Gibraltar becomes the United Kingdom.
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    Britain is founded when the English and Scottish parliament join.
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    Louis XV succeeds Louis XIV becomes King of France in 1715.
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    The Treaty of Ultretch is signed, ending the War of the Spanish Succession a year later.
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    The first typewriter is patented.
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    Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury thermometer.
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    The French founded the city of New Orleans.
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    The period of the Enlightenment begins after some philosophical publications of Voltaire
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    The Viceroyalty of New Granada is restored.
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    Rebellion of Atahualpa against the Spaniards.
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    Treaty of Westminster, peace treaty that concluded the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Signed by the United Provinces of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of England.
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    Carlos III is crowned King of Spain.
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    Rousseau publishes The Social Contract.
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    The First Industrial Revolution begins.
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    The American Revolutionary War begins.
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    United States Declaration of Independence.
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    Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against the Spanish crown in Peru.
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    The Treaty of Paris agrees to the end of the American Revolutionary War.
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    Constitution of the United States.
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    French Revolution
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    Lavoisier's Law.
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    Coalition of European monarchies against the French Revolution.
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    Spain gives the territory of the Mississippi to the United States.