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1299
Ottoman Empire founded
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1405
Zheng He's seven treasure missions begin
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1415
Prince Henry the Navigator's discoveries begin
Canary Islands, Cape Verde, alternate route to India -
1420
Forbidden City
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1433
Zheng He's missions end
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1453
Constantinople taken
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1460
Prince Henry's missions end
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1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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1497
Cabot disappeared
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1512
Portuguese treaties with Moluccas
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1522
Ibrahim Pasha dies
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Newfoundland annexed
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van Linschoten rounds the cape
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British India Company chartered
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Amboina massacre
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Portuguese driven out of Malacca
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Anglo-Dutch War
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Portuguese driven out of Sri Lanka
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Charles II and Catherine wed
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Anglo-Dutch War
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Anglo-Dutch War
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Industrialism begins
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Seven Years War begins
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Seven Years War ends
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Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote "Emile"
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Anglo-Dutch War
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French Revolution begins
French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen -
Vincent Oge returns to San Domingo; is executed
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Haitian Revolution begins
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Mary Wollstonecraft wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
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slave trade abolished
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Mount Tambora erupts
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"Year without a Summer"
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Auspicious Incident
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Period: to
Doctrine of Lapse
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Opium Wars begin
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Mines Act in Great Britain
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East India Company domination ends
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Petition from British inhabitants of Calcutta to Parliament
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Sepoy Rebellion
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Queen Victoria puts India under Britain's rule
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Mohammad Ali Khan arrested
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Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species"
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Meiji Restoration begins in Japan
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opening of the Suez Canal
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French League of Women's Rights
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Franco-Prussian War
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France defeated by Prussia
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English Married Women's Property Act
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the term "eugenics" was coined by Francis Galton
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United States obtains Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Omdurman
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Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams"
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King Kwet aPe arrested
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revolt against Belgians
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United States builds Panama Canal
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Kwet aPe's life spared; surrender
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Korea becomes a colony