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Period: 1337 to 1353
black death
This terrible epidemic reached the Iberian Peninsula in the first half of the year 1337-1353 . With various entrance doors.Transmission occurred through ships and people carrying the fatal agents, infected rats and fleas. -
Period: 1337 to 1452
the hundred years war
The Hundred Years' War pitted France and England between 1337 and 1453, becoming the longest military conflict that Europe has ever known. During those 116 years, the long and exhausting campaigns, always carried out on French soil, alternated with truces and long periods of peace. -
Period: 1412 to 1431
joan of arc
She was a medieval peasant who, claiming to receive visions from God, turned the tables of the Hundred Years' War in favor of French victory.She was tied to a stake and burned alive in the Old Market Square in Rouen, northwest France, and her ashes were thrown into the River Seine -
1440
printing press
After years of secret research and testing, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1440.is an industrial method of reproducing texts and images on paper or similar materials -
1492
the discovery of america
It was carried out by the sailor Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492, who believed in the roundness of the earth and proposed sailing on a route to the west to reach India. He set sail with 90 men in three caravels: the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa María. After sailing west for five weeks, the expedition made landfall on October 12.