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1401
The renaissance period generally begins
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1418
Prince Henry's navigation school founded
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May 29, 1452
Fall of Constantinople
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Oct 12, 1491
Columbus discovers America
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May 20, 1497
Vasco de Gama finds water route around the tip of Africa
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1504
Michelangelo's David
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1511
Erasmus' Praise of Folly published
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Oct 31, 1517
95 theses nailed to door of Wittenburg Church
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1519
Mona Lisa finished
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1520
Peak of the Ottoman Empire
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1521
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
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1521
Martin Lurther put on trial at the Diet of Worms
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1522
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
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1526
Start of the Mughal Empire
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1528
Tobacco introduced to Europe
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1532
Pissarro conqueror's the Incas
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1534
Anglican Church started
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1543
Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published
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1545
Council of Trent
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Shakespeare's play Julius Caear published
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Galileo's first telescope built
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William harvey discovered the circulation of blood
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Taj Mahal is built
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Newton's law of gravity published in the Principia
