14th-17th Centuries ~The Renaissance
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1420s ~ Prince Henry the Navigator
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1453 ~ The Turks captured Constantinople
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1480 ~ Ivan the Great of Russia
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The Medici Family
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1455–1485 ~ The Wars of the Roses
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1488 ~ Bartolomeu Dias
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1469 ~ The Unification of Spain
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European Explorers
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1493 ~ The Line of Demarcation
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1498 ~ Vasco da Gama reached India
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1503 ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
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1506 ~ Raphael Sanzio
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1508 ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
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The Sistine Chapel
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1509 ~ Henry VIII, King of England
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1517 ~ Martin Luther posted his 95 theses
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1519 ~ Ferdinand Magellan
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1520 ~ Suleiman the Magnificent
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1521 ~ Hernán Cortés
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1543 ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
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1542 ~ Jacques Cartier
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1532–1533 ~ Francisco Pizzaro
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1547 ~ Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
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1556 ~ Akbar the Great
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1560 ~ Ottomans defeat Spanish fleet
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1569 ~ Gerardus Mercator's new map
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1571 ~ Battle of Lepanto
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1582 ~ Pope Gregory XIII and the calendar
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1588 ~ The Spanish Armada
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1598 ~ Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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1583–1630 ~ Queen Nzinga
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1564–1616 ~ William Shakespeare
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1590 ~ Janssen created a microscope
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1564–1642 ~ Galileo
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1500-1700 ~ The Scientific Revolution
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1600~ East India Trading Company
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1600s ~ Ballet was developed
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1543–1616 ~ Tokugawa Ieyasu
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1547–1616 ~ Miguel de Cervantes
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1606 ~ Dutch discover Australia
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1608 ~ Lippershey invented the telescope
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1568–1648 ~ Eighty Years' War
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1400s - 1800s ~ The Atlantic Slave Trade
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1620 ~ Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
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1643 ~ Taj Mahal
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