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1398
The Renaissance period generally begins
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1419
Prince Henry’s navigation school founded
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1453
Fall of Constantinople
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1492
Columbus discovers America
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1498
Vasco da Gama finds water route around the tip of Africa
Cape of Good Hope -
1504
Michelangelo’s David
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1511
Erasmus’ Praise of Folly published
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1517
95 Theses nailed to door of Wittenberg church
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1519
Mona Lisa finished
Mona Lisa was never actually finished, but this was the last year she was worked on -
1520
Peak of Ottoman Empire
start in 1520
end in 1566 -
1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
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1521
Martin Luther put on a trial at the Diet of Worms
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1522
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
Start - September 1519
End - September 1522 -
1526
Start of Mughal Empire
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1530
Tobacco introduced to Europe
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1532
Pissarro conquered the Incas
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1534
Anglican Church started
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1543
Copernicus’ Heliocentric theory published
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1545
Council of Trent
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Galileo’s first telescope built
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Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar published
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William Harvey discovered circulation of blood
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Taj Mahal is built
Start - 1632
End - 1648 -
Newton’s Laws of gravity published in the Principia