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Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks after a nearly 60 day seige. This marks the end of the Byzantine Empire and subsequently the middle ages. Scholars and philosphers that fled the city carried with them various Roman and Greek texts to Italy that would help throw the renaissance into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!
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Marks the end of the Hundred Years war with decisive French victory over the English. Stability returns to north-west Europe.
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The Gutenberg Bible comes to print-it was the first major printed novel in the West. Books after this point are no longer just for the wealthy.
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A series of wars across Great Britian begin between the House of York and the house of Lancaster over the British throne.
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Lancastrain forces from the Tower of London lay siege to Yorksist held London from within the city-York forces surrender after less than two weeks.
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Good ole' Dracula tries to assassinate Sultan Mehmed II while he slept. by stabbing him. Enraged by this attaack the Sultan marches on the Wallachian capital only to find that Vlad had impaled 20,000 Turks outside the city as a warning.
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Under Isabella I of Castile Jew and Muslims flee the Iberian peninsula in droves due to the new "Convert or Die" policy the Crown of Castile and Aragón establishes.
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Caxton creates the first English printed book with his translation of the Aesop's Tales.
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The house of Lancaster defeats the house of York after 30 years of constant warfare and ends with the installation of the Tudor dyanasty.
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In late 1488 Portuguese explorers round Africa's southern caost disproving the idea that had existed since Ptolemy that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were separate.
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Christopher Columbus sails the ocean blue in 1492 to find a route to India only to find Native Americans and do all sorts of horrif things to them.
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Disovered and later colonized by Pedro Alvares of Portugual. Rule is noted to have significantly less genocide than that of the Spanish in other reagions of the Americas.
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Dominant power of South America reaches it's maxiumum extent.
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Rumor has it that she was shuch a bad wife her lovers created scheisms to get away from her.
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Michelangelo finishes paining the roof of the largest Christian house of worship since the Hagia Sophia nearly 1000 years before.
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Sent on an expedition by the Kingdom of Castille and Aragon the conquestador lands in what is now Vera Cruz.
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The Ottomans under Suleiman the Magnificent lay seige to and capture the Greek Island of Rhodes which was under the rule of the Knights of St. John for 300 years.
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Cortes' army and several hundred thousand of their Native American allies lay seige to the Aztec capital for 4 months before it's conquest and annexation by Spain.
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The new testament is transated into English on a massive scare by Willaim Tyndale but no good work goes unpunished as the bisophs of London attempted to have all copies burned.
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The last major Indian and thus Hindu stronghold is conquered by muslim Mughal Emirate which would last until the British take over India in 1857.
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Spanish and German forces led by the Duke of Bourbon sack the city of Rome and the Papcy-marking the end of the High Renaissance.
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The second most famous monarch of the Tudor dynasty breaks away from the Roman Catholic church to divorce his wife Catherine Aragon.
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Anne becomes Henry's second wife the first since he split away from Rome. Despite resistance from the Papacy the English government declares her Queen Consort.
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Nobody expects a Spanish inquisition!Yep, Spain's actions completely wipe out yet another Native civilization but this time with 100% more sneak attack.
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The new church, refromed under Prodtestantism becomes amoung the first nations in Europe since the Great Scheism between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches to split away from Rome.
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Henry weds his 3rd wife 11 DAYS after sentencing his sed wife Anne Boleyn to death on fabricated claims.
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4th time's the charm right?
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Cromwell is executed by order of Henry VIII under the accusation of high treason. He then marries his widow, Catherine Howard-all this 2 weeks after divorcing Anne of Cleves.
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And so begins the half millenia long enslavement and attempted extermnations of the Irish people.
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Accusing his 5th wife of adultry the Quuen reigned little more than a year.
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His 6th and final wife at the same time parliment passes the Third Sucession Act allowing Henry's dawghters Mary and Elizabeth claim to the throne.
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Ivan IV becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264 year old Grand Duchy of Moskva.
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The sickly only son of Henry VIII takes the throne afer his crazy dad dies.
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After the battle of Pinkie Cleugh English forces march into the Scottish capital driving many of the clans into the highlands.
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For the first time the common English people have a prayer book that they can read.
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Say hello to Queen Elizabeth's biggest fanboy!
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After the death of her half brother and abdication of Lady Jane Grey Mary I assumes the English throne rverting the Protestant reformation.
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The first work from the classical period is translated and printed in London sometime in 1553 under the name The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill.
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You may think your family is horrible but at least they don't lock you away in a terrible tower of torture.
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After the death of the murderous Bloody Mary Elizabeth Tudor takes the throne and goes to become one of the most renowned monarchs in European history.
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While not an epic read William Baldwin's Beware the Cat (published anonymously in London sometime during 1561) is the first example of extended fiction to be written in English. No known copies from the peroid have survived but it has been pieced together and war abriged in 2010 as Tales of Lovecraftian Cats.
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The first performace of Thomas Norton's and Thomas Sackville's play was quite a milestone-it was performed before Queen Elizabeth, it was the first known English tragety and the first English play to employ the blan verse.
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Under the merchant John Hawkins countless African tribesmen, women and children are purchased from Sierra Lerone to work in Hispanola.
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The man of means. The legend is born.
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Several northern Earls rise in rebellion against the Crown and attempt to place Mary, Queen of Scots on the English throne but are quickly defeated by Elizabethan forces.
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European Holy League of Cathlic maritime states defeat the Ottoman navy stopping their advance into Europe.
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During his circumnavigation of the globe Drake lands in California and with the English claim in Newfoundland and now California creates the basis for colonial charters.
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Beheaded by order of Queen Elizabeth I, she was accused of conspiring to murder Elizabeth.
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A failed attempt by the Cathlic forces of Castile, Portugual and Naples to kill Queen Elizabeth
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Written by Spencer is an epic poem supposedly dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I.
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Sometime during 1595 two of Shakespeare's most critically aclaimed plays are performed for the first time.
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Sometime during 1600 Shakespeare;s play Merchant of Venice is published.
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Queen Elizabeth dies and is succeeded by her cousin, King James VI of Scotland uniting the crown of the two nations.
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One Shakepeare's most critically acclaimed plays comes to light.
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An attempt by Guy Fawks to plow up the English Parliment is foiled by an anonymous tip.
