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Jan 1, 1450
Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)
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Jan 1, 1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople
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Jan 1, 1480
Height of Aztec Empire
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Jan 1, 1488
Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope
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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus/Reconquista of Spain
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Jan 1, 1502
First African Slaves to the Americas
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation
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Period: Jan 1, 1519 to Dec 31, 1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
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Period: Jan 1, 1521 to Dec 31, 1523
Magellan circumnavigates
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Jan 1, 1529
First unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
(Suleiman the Magnificent) -
Jan 1, 1533
Pizarro topples the Inca
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Jan 1, 1545
Discovery of silver at Potosi
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Jan 1, 1571
First Manila Galleon
(global trade of silver) -
Jan 6, 1571
Battle of Lepanto
(Ottoman naval defeat) -
Spanish Armada
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Battle of Sekigahara
(beg of Tokugawa shogunate) -
Foundation of Jamestown
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Period: to
30 Years Wars
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Period: to
Qing Dynasty
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Cape Town colony founded
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2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
(Mehmet IV) -
Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights