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1419
Prince Henry's navigation school founded
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May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
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1492
Columbus discovered America
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1497
Vasco De Gama finds water route around the tip of South Africa
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1500
Renaissance period generally begins
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1503
Mona Lisa Finished
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1504
Michelangelo's David
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1504
Magellan navigates the globe
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1511
Erasmus' Praise of Folly published
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Oct 31, 1517
95 Theses nailed to door of Wittenberg Church
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1520
Peak of Ottoman Empire
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1521
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
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Apr 17, 1521
Martin Luther put on trial at the Diet of Worms
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1523
Start of Mughal Empire
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1528
Tobacco introduced to Europe
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1530
Pizarro conquers the Incas
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1534
Anglican church started
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1543
Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published
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1547
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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William Harvey discovered circulation of Blood
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Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar published
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Taj Mahal was built
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Newton's laws of gravity published in the Principia