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This is when the renaissance began!
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Prince Henry founded a navigation school in Portugal
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This is when Constantinople was finnally captured and renamed Istanbul!
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The Niña, Pinta and the Santa María sail from Palos, Spain.
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divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian
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Michelangelo sculpts David
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Michaelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel. He had to paint the ceiling.
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Erasmus wrote "The Praise of Folly"
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Cortes defeats the Aztecs and gains new land
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Pizarro defeats the Inca and gains land
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It positioned the Sun near the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets rotating around it in circular paths modified by epicycles and at uniform speeds.
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Johannes Kepler published his first two laws in 1609, Kepler's third law was published in 1619.
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Galileo defended heliocentrism, and claimed it was not contrary to those Scripture passages.
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He was the first to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart
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At about 2 p.m.,Charles put his head on the block after saying a prayer and signalled the executioner when he was ready by stretching out his hands; he was then beheaded with one clean stroke.
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The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.
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The Restoration of the English monarchy began when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
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Newton's Principia formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England.
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The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689.
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The Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke.
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Peter the Great built St. Petersburg so he would have a location to trade from in the Baltic Sea.
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Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of monarchs of major countries in European history.
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The Spirit of the Laws is a treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu in 1748 with the help of Claudine Guérin de Tencin
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In moral and political philosophy, the social contract or political contract is a theory or model, originating during the Age of Enlightenment, that typically addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.
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The American Revolution was a political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America.
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The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789
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The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine, and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.
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As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815, the first monarch of France
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The Congress of Vienna met from Sept. 1814 to June 1815 to redraw Europe's political map and settle issues from previous wars.
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In February 1821, Napoleon's health began to fail rapidly, and on 3 May two British physicians, who had recently arrived, attended on him but could only recommend palliatives. He died two days later
