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Battle of Hastings (Normandy’s William)

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1066

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Moors reach Spain via morocco

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711

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1st crusade/ 2nd crusade

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1095/1145

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Columbus sails ocean blue – moors defeated by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

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1492

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British defeat Spanish Armada (Elizabeth I / Sir Francis drake / Phillip II)

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1588

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Settlement of Jamestown VA

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1607

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Pilgrims land Plymouth Rock VA

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1620

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Lady Montagu develops smallpox vaccine at court of Ottoman Empire

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1717

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American colonists declare independence from Britain

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1776

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French Revolution

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1789

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Edward Jenner develops and coins “vaccine” for smallpox

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1796

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(Jeffersons’s) LA purchase from napoleons France – doubles size of USA (Manifest Destiny) – as well as when worlds population reached it’s first billion people

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1803

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Cyrus McCormack invented reaper, trains made transportation and communication easier / Samuel morse invented telegraph

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1830’s

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Dr. John snow discovers cute for cholera – leads to sanitation

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1854

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Civil war – Lincoln was 16th president of USA – industrial revolution begins

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1860’s

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Transcontinental railroad finished (golden spike – promontory, UT); Suez Canal formally opened Nov. 17th (100 miles long connecting by way of 3 natural lakes, gulf of sues and Indian Ocean)

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1869

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Dr Joseph lister develops surgical antiseptic (carbolic acid)

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1885

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Plessy v ferguson – Supreme Court rules “separate but equal”

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1896

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Spanish-American war fought in 3 months. America acquires Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Guam

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1898

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The Great War

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1914-1918

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Bolshevik revolution led by Vladimir Lenin – overthrow Romanov dynasty – communism begins (lasts until 1991)

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1917

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Women in America received suffrage

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1920

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Dr. Alexander Fleming - discovers penicillin

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1928

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October – Black Thursday – stock market crash started worldwide depression

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1929

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World War II

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1939-1945

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Allies create state of Israel on Palestinian lands

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1948

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Korean War – beginnings of the Cold War

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1950-1953

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Brown v board of education – Supreme Court rulings reversing Plessy v ferguson - integration begins

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1954

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Civil rights movement / beginning of Vietnam

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1960s

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Perestroika – Berlin Wall falls

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1989

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Fall of USSR, desert storm

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1991

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Monsanto patents life, beginnings of GMO

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1996

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War on Terror – NSA spying begins

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2001

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1/2 of all earths residents now reside in cities

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2008

34
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World population hits 7 billion

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2011

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