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1418
Prince Henry of Portugal establishes the first first school for oceanic navigation
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1440
Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press
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1491
St. Ignatius de Loyola forms the Society of Jesus
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1492
Christopher Columbus lands on various Caribbean Islands
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1498
Leonardo paints the "Last Supper"
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1498
Vasco De Gama is the first to reach India by sea.
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1501
Michelangelo creates the Statue of David
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1503
Leonardo Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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1509
Erasmus writes the "Praise of Folly"
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1517
Martin Luther writes the "95 Theses" and nails it to the church door
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Period: 1519 to 1522
Ferdinand Magellan is the first person to circumnavigate the globe
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1521
Martin Luther is excommunicated from the church
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1521
Hernan Cortez defeats the Aztec Empire
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1532
Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incan Empire
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1534
King Henry VIII breaks away from the Catholic Church
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1534
Jacques Cartier dis the first to discover the St. Lawrence River in Canada
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1536
John Calvin writes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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1543
Nicolaus Copernicus develops the Heliocentric theory
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1559
Elizabeth I makes the Anglican Church the official state church
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Francis Drake defeats the Spanish Armada and is awarded a knighthood
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William Shakespeare writes "Romeo and Juliet"
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Johannes Kepler establishes “Kepler’s law of planetary motion”
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Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter’s 4 moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto)
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Miguel de Cervantes publishes "Don Quixote"
This was the first novel written and published -
William Harvey announced his discovery of the circulation of blood within the body
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The Thirty Year War
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King Louis XIV rebuilds Versaille
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King Louis XIV becomes king at the age of four.
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English Civil War
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Oliver Cromwell defeats King Charles' army at the Battle of Naseby
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Thomas Hobbes publishes "Leviathan"
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Sir Isaac Newton published Principia
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The Glorious Revolution
King James was overthrown, non-violently, by Parliment. William and Mary of Orange take the throne -
William and Mary become King and Queen of England
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John Locke publishes the "Two Treaties of Government
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The English Bill of Rights is written.
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Baron De Montesquieu publishes the "Spirit of Laws"
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Voltare writes and publishes "Candide"
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Jean Jacques Rousseau publishes the "Social Contract"
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The storming of Bastille
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The calling of the Estates General
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The Tennis Court Oath
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March of Versailles
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The French Revolution
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King Louis XIV is executed
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Maximilien Robespierre leads the Reign of Terror
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Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the Emperor of the French.
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Eugene Delacroix paints "Death of Sardanapalus"
