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Nov 21, 1488
Bartholomew Diaz explores African coast.
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Period: Oct 12, 1492 to
Columbus in New World - End of French and Indian War
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Nov 20, 1492
Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
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Nov 21, 1492
Martin Behaim makes the earliest globe of the world. It showed no New World.
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Nov 20, 1494
First Africans arrive in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus.
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Nov 21, 1497
Vasco de Gama is first to sail to India around Cape of Good Hope, Africa.
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Nov 20, 1499
Vincent Pinzon and Juan Dias de Solis discover Brazil.
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Aug 10, 1500
Diego Diaz discovered Madagascar.
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Nov 20, 1513
Vaco Nunez de Balboa discovers Pacific Ocean.
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Nov 20, 1513
Ponce de Leon explores Florida.
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Nov 20, 1518
Juan de Grijal explores Mexico.
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Nov 21, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan begins first circumnavigation of the world.
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Nov 20, 1528
Panfilo de Narvaez conquers Cuba and explores Florida.
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Nov 20, 1528
Alva Cabeza de Vaca explores southwestern America.
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Nov 20, 1534
Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River.
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Nov 20, 1539
Hernando de Soto explores South-eastern North America
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Nov 20, 1541
Francisco Vazquez Coronado explores midwest North America.
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Jul 7, 1550
Chocolate introduced in Europe.
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Nov 20, 1550
First slaves arrive from Africa, to Brazil.
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Nov 20, 1550
Ambrose Pare (France) invents artificial limbs.
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Nov 20, 1551
Spaniards in Chile begin producing wine.
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Nov 20, 1576
Sir Martin Frobisher explores Baffin Bay and the Hudson Strait, Canada
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Nov 21, 1577
Sir Francis Drake begins his sail around the world.
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert Claims Newfoundland (Canada) for England.
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Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe explore North Carolina coast.
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Sir Walter Raleigh establishes Roanoke colony.
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Simon Stevin invented decimals.
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Janssen invents the compound microscope.
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Sir Richard Hawkins sails to the South Pacific Ocean.
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Sir Walter Raleigh seeks El Dorado
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Juan de Archuleta explores Colorado.
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William Gilbert discovered static electricity
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Sebastian Viscaino founded San Diego, Catalina, Monterey Bay, Carmel, Santa Barbara, and many more missions for Spain.
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CAPT John Smith founds Jamestown (Virginia colony)
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Henry Hudson, explorer
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Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Champlain.
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Galileo builds the first telescope.
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Galileo observes the stars and Milky Way
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Mayflower
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Jan Batista van Helmont introduces the word "gas"
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Peter Minuit buys island of Manhattan from the Indians.
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Main Mersenne discovered speed of sound
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Roger Williams
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Harvard College
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Rene Descartes refracts rainbows and clouds
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Jacque Marquette and Louis Jolliet explore and find Mississippi River.
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First printing press in Mass.
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Witchcraft
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Blaise Pascal invented mechanical calculator
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Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, and Fiji Islands.
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Constitution of Rhode Island
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Jan van Riebeeck founded Cape Town, South Africa.
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England gets rid of royalty: Oliver Cromwell is the Protectorate.
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The Great Fire of London.
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LaSalle explored upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes region.
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored Mississippi River.
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Thomas Tompion discovered the way to make pocket watches.
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The First map of all of New Spain.
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Pierre and Jean-Baptiste LeMoyne explore Mississippi coast and discover mouth of Mississippi River.
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CAPT. William Kidd hung in London.
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William Penn is granted a Charter for the colony of Delaware
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Scotland and England combine to become Great Britain.
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First organ built in Philadelphia.
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Maria Theresa becomes queen of Austrian empire.
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First group of slaves brought to Louisiana.
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Founding of New Orleans, by the French
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King Peter the Great of Russia dies.
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King George II ascends the Throne of England.
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Baltimore is founded in colony of Maryland.
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Vitus Bering discovers and sails through the Bering Strait.
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Poor Richard's Almanac appears in print.
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Russia and Austria at war with Turkey.
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The Waltz becomes a popular dance in Europe.
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Berlin is burned by the Russians.
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Father Junipero Serra founds nine missions in southwest North America.
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Capt Arthur Phillip founds Englich colony of Australia.