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1418
Prince Henry's School of Navigation
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1418
Late 1300s-Cristine de Pisan-Querelle des Femmes
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Period: 1418 to
Age of Exploration (1400s-end of 1600s)
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1434
van Eyck's Arnolfini Wedding
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Period: 1434 to 1490
Early Renaissance (1400s-1490)
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1440
Printing Press Invented
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1440
Valla's Constantine Work
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1440
Donatello's David
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Period: 1450 to
Enclosure Movement Spread
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1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople
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Period: 1479 to 1516
Ferdinand & Isabella
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Period: 1487 to
Star Chamber
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Period: 1490 to 1580
Northern Renaissance (late 15th century)
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Period: 1490 to 1527
High Renaissance
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1492
Columbus' First Voyage
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Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Period: 1500 to
Age of Absolutism (1500s-1800)
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Period: 1500 to
16th Century Population Increase
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1504
Michelangelo's David
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Period: 1509 to 1547
Henry VIII
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1511
Raphael's School of Athens
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1516
Concordat of Bologna
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1516
More's Utopia
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Period: 1517 to
Reformation
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Oct 31, 1517
95 Theses
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Period: 1520 to
Mannerism
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Jun 6, 1527
Sack of Rome
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1530
Copernicus' On the Revolutions
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1532
Machiavelli's The Prince
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1534
Jesuits Founded
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1535
Ursulines
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Period: 1541 to 1549
Calvin's Geneva
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1542
Start of Roman Inquisition
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1542
Las Casas' Destruction of the Indies
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Period: 1543 to
Scientific Revolution (1543-1700)
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Period: 1545 to 1563
Council of Trent
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Period: 1550 to
Price Revolution
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1555
Peace of Augsburg
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Period: 1556 to
Philip II
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1560
St. Teresa begins reforms
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Period: 1562 to
French Wars of Religion
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Period: 1568 to
Dutch Revolt
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1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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1576
Bodin's Six Books of the Republic
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Period: 1580 to
Witchcraft Accusations Peak
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Period: to
Baroque (1584-1723)
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El Greco's Burial of C.O.
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Little Ice Age (late 16th century)
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Edict of Nantes
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Period: to
Dutch Golden Age (1600-1672)
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Dutch East India Company
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Bank of Amsterdam
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Period: to
Louis XIII (& Richelieu)
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Defenestration of Prague
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Period: to
30 Years' War
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Bacon formalizes Sci Met
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Bernini's David
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Harvey's Discovery of Circulation
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Rembrandt's Night Watch
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Period: to
English Civil War
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Peace of Westphalia
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Mid 1600s Disintegration of older, communal values