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Porto Santo Island discovered
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Prince Henry the Navigator orders colonization of Porto Santo Island
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Gutenburg Prints first ever book in Europe
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Christopher Columbus discovers San Salvador
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Vasco da Gama discovers much safer trade route to India
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
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Desiderius Erasmus publishes the New Testament in Greek
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Martin Luther publishes his Ninety-five theses
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Ferdinand Magellan is the first to circumnavigate the globe
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Hernan Cortez conquers the Aztec Empire
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King Henry VIII declares himself Supreme Head of the Church of England
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Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland and claims it for France
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John Calvin writes the first edition of Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionobus orbium coelestium
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Elizabeth I re-establishes the Church of England's independence from Rome
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Francis Drake is the second to circumnavigate the world
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William Shakespeare publishes Romeo and Juliet
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Miguel de Cervantes publishes first edition of Don Quixote
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Galileo Galilei makes first telescope
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Johannes Kepler publishes Kepler's laws of planetary motion
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William Harvey publishes book on the anatomical study of the motion of the heart and of the blood of animals
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Charles I leads troops against parliament
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Thomas Hobbes publishes the Leviathan
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English Civil War ends
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Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
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Absolute Monarchies peak with Louis XIV
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Isaac Newton observes the color spectrum using a prism
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Charles II enters into treaty of Dover with cousin king Louis XIV
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William and Mary become monarchs of England
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John Locke writes Two Treatises on Government
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Peter the Great travels to Europe to gain allies against the Ottomans
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Voltaire is imprisoned for writings against the government
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Montesquieu publishes Spirit of the Laws
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Frederick the Great marches his armies into Saxony starting Seven Years War
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Jean Jacques Rousseau publishes The Social Contract
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Louis XVI signs treaty with thirteen colonies against Great Britain
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Storming of the Bastille
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Napoleon leads a Coup against government effectively gaining control
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Napoleon gets defeated at Battle of Waterloo
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Eugene Delacroix paints Liberty Leading the People
