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300
Camels Are First Brought to the Sahara
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300
Classic Mayan Civilization Begins
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476
The Fall of Rome
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500
The Byzantine Empire Begins
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500
The Ghana Empire Begins
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552
Buddhism Is Introduced to Japan
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Jan 1, 604
The Seventeen Article Constitution Begins
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad Becomes a Prophet of Islam
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Jan 1, 651
The First Official Edition Of the Qur'an is 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 Begins 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, the First Novel, is Written
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Jan 1, 1050
Movable Type is Invented
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Jan 1, 1054
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches Split
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Jan 1, 1065
Song Dynasty Begins Civil Service Exams
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Jan 1, 1085
The Reconquista Begins with Toledo
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Jan 1, 1096
The First Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1146
The Second Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1185
The Heian Period Ends
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Jan 1, 1189
The Third Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1192
The Era Of The Samurai Begins
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Jan 1, 1192
The First Shogun Comes to Power
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Jan 1, 1200
The Incas First Settle 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
The Mali Empire Begins
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Jan 1, 1250
The Aztecs Arrive in the Valley of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1258
The Mongols Destroy Baghdad
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Jan 1, 1279
Mongol Dynasty Begins
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Jan 1, 1300
The Mongol Empire is Weakened
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Jan 1, 1300
Humanism Began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1300
The Renaissance began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1312
Mansa Musa is the First Islamic Leader
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Jan 1, 1325
Aztecs Start Building Tenochtitlan
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Jan 1, 1337
The Hundred Years' War Begins
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Jan 1, 1347
The Bubonic Plague Begins in Europe
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Jan 1, 1350
Timbuktu Becomes a Center of Arabic Learning
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Jan 1, 1368
Mongol Dynasty Ends
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Jan 1, 1368
Ming Dynasty Begins
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Jan 1, 1400
The Inquisition Takes Place
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Jan 1, 1405
Zheng He Makes His First Voyage
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Jan 1, 1438
The Incas Begin to Create Roads
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Jan 1, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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Jan 1, 1453
The Hundred Years' War Ends
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Jan 1, 1453
The Byzantine Empire Ends
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Jan 1, 1460
The Songhai Empire Begins
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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
The Spanish Conquer Granada
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Jan 1, 1492
Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to find a sea route to Asia
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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
Post-Classic Mayan Civilization Ends
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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, 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
The Aztec Empire Ends
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world
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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
The Inca Empire Ends
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Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas
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Jan 1, 1534
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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The Songhai Empire Ends
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Galileo decided to build a telescope
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Henry Hudson began to try to find the Northwest Passage
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The Mali Empire Ends
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The Thirty Years' War Began
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Ming Dynasty Ends
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The Peace of Westphalia was signed
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The Thirty Years' War ends
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Newton published a book about gravity
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The Era Of The Samurai Ends
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Charlemagne's Christian Empire Begins
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Tang Dynasty Begins
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Tang Dynasty Ends
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Gunpowder is Invented
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Buddhism Expands in the Tang Dynasty
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The Japanese Invent Kana
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Prince Shotoku Comes to Power
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Heian-Kyo Becomes the Capital of Japan
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The Heian Period Begins