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Saxon Otto I is elected Holy Roman Emperor
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The Hongwu Emperor founds the Ming Dynasty in China after the Mongol Yuan Dynasty collapses
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The city of Ceuta in North Africa is conquered by Portugal, starting the expansion of the Portugese empire
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The Mexica found the Aztec Empire in Mexico with an alliance of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.
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The Inca, led by Sapa Inca Pachakuti, begin to expand their empire out from Cuzco.
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Zheng He returns to Beijing from his seventh and last voyage
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Constantinople falls to the Ottomans, led by Mehmed II, and their cannons, after a seige.
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The English lose the Battle of Castillon, to the French, and lose all their land in France but Calais
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The Moors surrender Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella, the entire Iberian Peninsula is now Christian.
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Akbar the Great succeeds his father to become the emperor of Mughal India
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Mikhail Romanov becomes tzar of Russia by being elected, the start of the Romanov dynasty
