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Oct 1, 1400
Renaissance Begins
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Oct 18, 1418
Prince Henry found navigation school in Portugal
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May 29, 1453
Constantinople was conquered and renamed istanbul
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Sep 6, 1492
Columbus' first voyage
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Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Oct 1, 1504
Michelangelo's David
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Oct 1, 1507
Leonardo da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa"
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Oct 1, 1509
Erasmus writes "praise of folly"
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Oct 1, 1512
Michelangelo's Painting of the Sistine Chapel
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Oct 18, 1521
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
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Oct 18, 1532
Pizzaro conquers the Inca
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Dec 17, 1539
Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory.
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Shakespeare writes "the tragedy of Julius Ceasar"
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Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion.
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Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory.
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William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood
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Taj Mahal built
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oliver cromwell and the execution of Charles I
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Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
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the restoration of charles II
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John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government:
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Glorious Revolution ( william and mary)
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english bill of rights
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Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity.
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Peter the great builds St. Petersburg
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Louis XIV builds the palace of versailles
It was build by Louis XIV to honor him -
Death of Louis XIV
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Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws:
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract
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The American colonies win independence from England
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Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
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Storming of the Bastille
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Period: to
Reign of Terror
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Reign of Terror
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
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Congress of Vienna meets
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Napoleon dies
