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1440
Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press
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Period: 1492 to 1502
Christopher Columbus did four trips across the Atlantic ocean, on his first he 'discovered' the Americas
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Period: 1497 to May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail around Africa to Asia
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1503
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa
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Period: 1508 to 1512
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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1509
Desiderius Erasmus wrote the Praise of Folly
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Period: Apr 21, 1509 to Jan 28, 1547
Henry the VIII was the king, he broke from Rome and made the Church of England later to become the Angelica Church
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1517
Martin Luther wrote the 95 Theses and began Lutheranism
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Period: 1519 to 1521
Ferdinand Magellan left Spain in 1519 trying to find a route to the spice islands
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1521
Hernando Cortez was a Spanish explorer, with his biggest accomplishment being conquering the Aztecs
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1532
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incan empire
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1534
Jacques Cartier was sent to find a new route to Asia and also claimed parts of what is modern day Canada
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Aug 15, 1534
St. Ignatius de Loyola founded the Jesuits
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1536
John Calvin wrote Institutes of the Christian
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1543
Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the Heliocentric model in 1543
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Period: Nov 17, 1558 to
Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry the VIII, she was Queen of England and battled the Spanish armada
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Period: 1577 to
Francis Drake was an explorer from 1577-1580 and helped to defeat the Spanish armada in 1588
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William Shakespeare was a famous play writer, poet, and actor
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Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish writer writer that wrote many things the main being Don Quixote in 1605
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Johannes Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion
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Galileo Galilei discovered 4 moons of Jupiter and studied other objects in space
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Charles the first was king of England for 24 years until he was executed for causing a Civil war
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William Harvey was the first person to fully describe the circulatory system accurately
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Louis XIV was the king for 72 years during which he built the palace Versailles
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In 1651 Charles II took an army trying to invade England but got defeated and exiled until 1660
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Thomas Hobbes wrote the Leviathan
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Oliver Cromwell was a strong military leader who was a big part of the defeat of Charles the first, Cromwell then became the dictator for five years until his death
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Peter the great changed Russia so they would be more modern and established them as an important nation
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Isaac Newton developed the 3 laws of motion
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John Locke wrote The Two Treatises of Government and came up with the three inalenable rights
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William and Mary took over from James the second and began the glorious revolution
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Frederick the great help to increase military power and territories while he was in power
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Baron de Montesquie wrote The Spirit of Laws
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Voltaire wrote many things but his biggest was Candide
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Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote The Social Contract
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Louis XVI was king for 19 years then he was executed
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Napoleon Bonaparte was a strong military leader who then became emperor
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Eugene Delacroix was a famous romantic painter