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300
Camels First Brought to Sahara
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300
Classic Mayan Civilization Begins
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476
Fall of Rome
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500
Byazntine Empire Begins
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500
Ghana Empire Began
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552
Buddhism is Introduced to Japan
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Jan 1, 604
Seventeen Article Constitution was Written
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad Became a Prophet of Islam
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Jan 1, 651
First Official Qur'an was Written
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Jan 1, 700
Traders Bring Islam to West Africa
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Jan 1, 710
Nara Becomes the Capital of Japan
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Jan 1, 750
Bookmaking Began to Spread the Qur'an
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Jan 1, 1000
Feudalism Begins
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Jan 1, 1000
The Tale of Genji was Written
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Jan 1, 1050
Movable Type was Invented in China
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Jan 1, 1054
Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church Split
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Jan 1, 1065
Song Dynasty Begins Regular Civil Service Exams
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Jan 1, 1085
The Reconquista Begins With Toledo
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Jan 1, 1096
First Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1146
Second Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1185
Heian Period Ends
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Jan 1, 1189
Third Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1192
First Shogun Comes to Power
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Jan 1, 1192
Era of the Samurai Begins
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Jan 1, 1200
The Incas first settled in Cuzco
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Jan 1, 1203
Ghana Empire Ends
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Jun 1, 1215
Signing of the Magna Carta
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Jan 1, 1240
Mali Empire Began
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Jan 1, 1250
Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1258
Mongols Destroyed Baghdad
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Jan 1, 1279
Mongol Dynasty Begins
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Jan 1, 1300
Mongol Empire was Weakened
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Jan 1, 1300
The Renaissance began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1300
Humanism began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1312
Mansa Musa Becomes First Muslim Ruler
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Jan 1, 1325
Aztecs Start Building Tenochtitlan
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Jan 1, 1337
Hundred Years' War Begins
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Jan 1, 1347
Bubonic Plague begins in Europe
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Jan 1, 1350
Timbuktu Becomes a Center of Learning
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Jan 1, 1368
Ming Dynasty Begins
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Jan 1, 1368
Mongol Dynasty Ends
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Jan 1, 1400
Inquisition Took Place
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Jan 1, 1405
Zheng He Makes His First Voyage
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Jan 1, 1438
The Incas began to create roads
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Jan 1, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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Jan 1, 1453
Byzantine Empire Ends
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Jan 1, 1453
Hundred Years' War Ends
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Jan 1, 1460
Songhai Empire Began
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Jan 1, 1469
The Medici family began to rule Florence
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias began to sail around the tip of Africa
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Jan 1, 1492
Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to find a sea route to Asia
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Jan 1, 1492
Spanish Conquer Granada
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Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama began to sail to India
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Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot landed in Canada
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Jan 1, 1500
Pedro Cabral began to sail to Brazil
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Jan 1, 1500
The microscope was invented
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Jan 1, 1500
Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended
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Jan 1, 1504
Michelangelo completed his statue of David
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Jan 1, 1514
Copernicus stated that the earth revolves around the sun
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world
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Jan 1, 1519
Aztec Empire Ends
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Jan 1, 1521
Hernan Cortes destroyed the Aztecs
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Jan 1, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazano landed in North America
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Jan 1, 1525
William Tyndale translated the Bible into English
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Jan 1, 1532
Inca Empire Ends
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Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas
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Jan 1, 1534
King Henry VIII created Anglicanism
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Jan 1, 1541
John Calvin created Calvinism
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus stated his theory of the heliocentric universe
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Jan 1, 1545
The Council of Trent was formed
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Songhai Empire Ends
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Henry Hudson began to try to find the Northwest Passage
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Galileo decided to build a telescope
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Mali Empire Ends
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The Thirty Years’ War began
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Ming Dynasty Ends
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Peace of Westphalia was signed
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The Thirty Years’ War ended
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Newton puublished a book on gravity
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Era of the Samurai Ends
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Charlemagne's Christian Empire Begins
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Tang Dynasty Ends
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Tang Dynasty Records a Formula for Gunpowder
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Tang Dynasty Begins
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Buddhism Expands Under Tang Dynasty
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The Japanese Invent Kana
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Prince Shotoku Comes to Power in Japan
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Heian-kyo Becomes the Capital of Japan
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The Heian Period Begins