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300
Camels were first brought to the Sahara
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300
Classic Mayan Civilization began
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476
The Fall of Rome
In 476 C.E. the last emperor in the west got booted and the Western empire seperate into different tribes -
500
The Byzantine Empire Begins
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500
The Ghana empire began
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552
Buddhism was introduced to Japan
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Jan 1, 604
The Seventeen Article Constitution began
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad Became a Prophet of Islam
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Jan 1, 651
The first official edition of the Qur’an was written
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Jan 1, 700
Traders brought Islam to West Africa
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Jan 1, 710
Nara became 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, the first novel, was written
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Jan 1, 1050
Moveable type was invented in China
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Jan 1, 1054
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthadox Churches Split
The Patriarch Cerularius wanted to force the Byzantines back into the head church. This angered Pope Leo IX, so he sent Cardinal Humbert to excomunicate the Patriarch. The Patriarch responded by excomunicating the cardinal (although he did not have the power). This showed a final schism between the churches -
Jan 1, 1065
Song dynasty began civil service exams
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Jan 1, 1085
The Reconquista began with Toledo
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Jan 1, 1096
The First Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1099
The First crusade Ended
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Jan 1, 1146
The Second Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1148
The Second Crusade ended
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Jan 1, 1185
The Heian period ended
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Jan 1, 1189
The Third Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1192
The first shogun came to power
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Jan 1, 1192
The Third Crusade Ended
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Jan 1, 1192
The era of the samurai began
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Jan 1, 1200
The Incas first settled in Cuzco
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Jan 1, 1203
The Ghana empire ended
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Jun 1, 1215
Signing of the Magna Carta
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Jan 1, 1240
The Mali empire began
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Jan 1, 1250
The Aztecs Arrived in the Valley of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1258
The Mongols destroyed Baghdad
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Jan 1, 1279
The Mongols dynasty began
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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 was the first Islamic leader
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Jan 1, 1325
Aztecs started 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 became the center of Arabic learning
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Jan 1, 1368
The Ming dynasty began
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Jan 1, 1368
The Mongols dynasty ended
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Jan 1, 1400
The Inquisition Took Place
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Jan 1, 1405
Zheng He made his first voyage
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Jan 1, 1438
The Incas began to create roads
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Jan 1, 1450
Johannes Gutenburg invented the printing press
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Jan 1, 1453
The Byzantine Empire Ends
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Jan 1, 1453
The Hundred Years' War Ends
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Jan 1, 1460
The 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
The Spanish Conquered 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
The microscope was invented
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Jan 1, 1500
Pedro Cabral began to sail to Brazil
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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 his theory of the heliocentric universe
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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 ended
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Jun 3, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world
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Jan 1, 1521
Hernan Cortez destroyed the Aztecs
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Jan 1, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazanolanded 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 ended
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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, 1545
The council of Trent was formed
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The Songhai empire ended
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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 ended
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The Thirty Years' War began
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The Ming dynasty ended
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Peace of Westphalia was signed
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The Thirty Years' War ended
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Newton published a book about gravity
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The era of the samurai ended
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Charlemagnes Christian Empire Begins
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The Tang dynasty began
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The Tang dynasty ended
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The Tang dynasty records a formula for gunpowder
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The Japanese invented kana
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Prince Shotoku came to power
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Heian-kyo/Tokyo became the capital of Japan
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The Heian period began
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Charlemagne's Christian Empire ended
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Buddhism religion expanded in the Tang dynasty