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1453

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  • Gutenberg is making the printing press

- Constantinople falls to the Turks

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1492

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  • Columbus lands in new world

- Spain completes Reconquista of Jews and Moors

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1513

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Machiavelli wrote The Prince

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1517

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Martin Luther posts the 95 theses in Wittenberg Germany

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1534

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  • King Henry VIII passes Acts of Supremacy

- Jesuits created

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1545

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  • Council of Trent begins

- John Calvin preaches in Geneva

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1555

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Charles V Habsburg agrees to the Peace of Augsburg

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1588

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Elizabeth I defeats Philip II of Spain’s Spanish Armada

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1598

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  • Henry IV Bourbon issues Edict of Nantes

- Louis XIV revokes in 1685

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1627

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  • Cardinal Richelieu sieges La Rochelle
  • Dutch Golden Age
  • Baroque art flourishes
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1633

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  • Inquisition puts Galileo on trial in Rome

- Scientific Method with Descartes math and Bacons empiricism

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1648

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  • Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 years war and solidifies Elbe-Trieste Line (military revolution)
  • Fronde revolts threaten young Louis XIV
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1651

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  • Oliver Cromwell’s Roundheads in parliament win the English Civil War
  • Mercantilist English Navigation Acts
  • Hobbes Leviathan
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1689

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  • English Bill of Rights follows the Glorious Revolution

- John Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government

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1713

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  • Pragmatic Sanction in Austria
  • peace of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession
  • Peter I Romanov moves capital to St. Petersburg as Louis XIV is dying
  • Age of Enlightenment begins
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1756

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  • Diplomatic Revolution leads to 7 years war
  • Agricultural revolution
  • population and illegitimacy explosion
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1776

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  • Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations
  • Declaration of Independence begins American Revolution
  • Watt steam engine
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1789

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-French Revolution begins

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1795

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Final partition of Poland by Enl. Despots (Austrian Habsburg, Prussian Hohenzollerns, Russian Romanovs)

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1799

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Napoleon comes to power in France

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1815

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  • Congress of Vienna exiles Napoleon
  • English Enclosure completes rural proletarization
  • Dual Rev merge
  • Age of Metternich begins the concert of Europe