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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1291
Crusades are fought
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Jan 1, 1337
100 years war fought
Was actually was about 114 years long. France and the British fought against each other. -
Jan 1, 1347
Black death begins in Europe
Was transported through rats that had infected fleas. Killed about 25 million Europeans. -
Jan 1, 1350
Renaissance begins
The word Renaissance means 'Rebirth" in french. Was a period of cultural movement and beauty. -
Period: Jan 1, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty in China
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Period: Jan 1, 1405 to Jan 1, 1433
Voyages fo Zheng He
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Jan 1, 1431
Joan of arc burned at the stake
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for the suspicion that she was a witch. She was nicknamed "The Maid of Orleans". -
Jan 1, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
Cantantinople had lasted for over 1,100 years. Was a seven week seige. -
Jan 1, 1455
Johannes Gutenberg - printing press
Johannes Gutenberg was a German goldsmith and inventor. September 30, 1452, Johann Guttenberg's Bible was published becoming the first book to be published in volume. -
Jan 1, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
Columbus had three ships, the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. Columbus actually landed on an island and thought that he was in India. -
Jan 1, 1492
Jews, gypsies and moors expelled from Spain
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Jan 1, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Slave trade across Atlantic
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
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Jan 1, 1502
Naming of the "New World"
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Period: Jan 1, 1503 to Jan 1, 1506
Da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa"
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Jan 1, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses
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Jan 1, 1520
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
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Jan 1, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
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Jan 1, 1534
Henry the 8th founds Angelican Church
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Jan 1, 1537
Pizarro invades the Inca Empire
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
In this new ordering the Earth is just another planet and the Moon is in orbit around the Earth, not the Sun. The stars are distant objects that do not revolve around the Sun. Instead, the Earth is assumed to rotate once in 24 hours, causing the stars to appear to revolve around the Earth in the opposite direction. -
Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563
Council of Trent
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Period: Jan 1, 1556 to
Phillip the 2nd rules Spain
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Jan 1, 1558
Elizabeth 1 becomes Queen of England
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Age of Enlightenment
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Jamestown, colony in Virginia, founded
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Louis the 14th becomes King of France
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Qing Dynasty in China begins
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Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
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Oliver Cromwell rules England
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Peter 1 (the great) becomes Czar
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Cathrine the Great rules Russia
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French Revolution begins
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U.S. Constitution is ratified
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Reign of Terror begins
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Napoleon becomes Emporer
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Napoleon defeated @ Waterloo
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Tokugawa Shogunate ends
