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1
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1775 - 1783

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Revolutionary War

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1492

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Columbus sailed the ocean blue

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3
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1587

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Roanoke colony

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4
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1607

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Jamestown Colony - first English settlement

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5
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1620

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Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

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1773

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Boston Tea Party

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7
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1775

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Battle of Lexington and Concord

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1775 - 1781

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Revolutionary War

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9
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1776

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Declaration of Indepence from Great Britain

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10
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1787

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Ratification of US constitution

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1789

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George Washington becomes first US president

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12
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1803

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Louisiana Purchase

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13
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1812 - 1814

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War of 1812

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14
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1814

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White House burned down

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15
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1830

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Indian removal act issued - forced relocation of Native American tribes

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16
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1846 - 1848

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Mexican American War

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17
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1861 - 1865

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Civil War

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18
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1863

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Emancipation Proclomation

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1865

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Lincoln Assassinated
13th amendment abolished

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20
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1898

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Spanish American War
- US gains Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines

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21
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1914 - 1918

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WW1

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22
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1929

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Stock market crash leads to Great Depression

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23
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1941

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Pearl Harbor

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24
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1939 - 1945

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WW2

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25
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1950 - 1953

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Korean War

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26
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1963

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JFK assassinated

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27
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1955 -1975

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Vietnam War

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28
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1969

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Apollo 11 moon landing - Neil Armstrong becomes first person to walk on the moon

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29
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1973

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Roe V Wade legalized abortion worldwide

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30
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1989

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Fall of the Berlin Wall - Symbolizes end of the Cold War

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31
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1991

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Gulf War - US led coalition forces eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait

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32
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2001

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September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

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33
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2003

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U.S invades Iraq, leading to the Iraq War

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34
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2008

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Barack Obama elected as first black president

Housing market collapse

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35
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2011

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U.S Navy Seals kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan

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36
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2020

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Covid Pandemic Begins

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37
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1692

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Salem Witch Trials

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38
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1770

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Boston Massacre - British soldiers kill 5 colonists

  • 5 years before the start of the Revolutionary War
39
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1754 - 1763

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French and Indian War

40
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1836

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Battle of the Alamo

41
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1849

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California Gold Rush

42
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1876

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Battle of Little Big Horn
- General Custer and U.S forces defeated by Native American tribes

Telephone invented

43
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1890

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Wounded Knee Massacre
- US army kills over 200 Native Americans in South Dakota

44
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1944

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D-Day - Ally invasion of Normandy

45
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1920

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19th ammendment gives women the right to vote

46
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1955

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Rosa parks refuses to give her seat up sparking the Civil Rights Movement

47
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1963

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Martin Luther King delivers his “I Have a Dream Speach”

48
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1968

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MLK assassinated

49
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1979 - 1981

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Iran Hostage Crissis
- American Embassy workers held hostage for 444 days

50
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1990

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Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit

51
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2013

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Edward Snowden leaks classified NSA survellience information

52
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2021

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US withdrawals from Iraq

53
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1903

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Wright Brothers first powered flight

54
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1815

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Battle of Waterloo - The end of Napolean Bonaparte

55
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1830 - 1840

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Trail of Tears

56
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1767

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Daniel Boone and Boonesborough

57
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1000 AD

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Leif Erickson creates settlement in Canada he called Vinland

58
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1452 - 1519

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Renaissance Era

59
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1912

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Sinking of the Titanic

60
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1920 - 1933

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Prohibition Era

61
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1879

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Light bulb invented

62
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1917

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US enters WW1

63
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1927

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TV Invented

64
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1942 - 1945

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Manhattan Project

65
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1945 - 1989

66
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1961

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

67
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1962

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Cuban Missile Crisis

68
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1964

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Gulf of Tonkin Incident

69
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1972

70
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1985 - 1987

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Iran Contra Affair

71
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1993

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Waco Seige

72
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2005

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Operation Red Wing (Lone Survivor)

73
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2012

74
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15,000 - 25,000 years ago

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Hunter gatherers enter America through the Bering Land Bridge

75
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1913

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Ford assembly line introduced

76
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4.6 billion years ago

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Formation of earth

77
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3.8 billion years ago

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First evidence of life - Single celled organisms

78
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2.1 - 2.4 billion years ago

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Great Oxidation Event

79
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200 - 250 million years ago

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Dinosaurs appeared

80
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23 - 66 million years ago

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All non-birdlike dinosaurs killed in the Cretaceous Period Mass Extinction event

81
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300,000 years ago

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homo-Sapien’s appear on earth

82
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2,030 years ago

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Around the time Jesus was born (6BCE)

83
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1,995 years ago

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Around the time Jesus died (30CE)

84
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1069 - 1291

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The Crusades
- First Crusade (1069-1099)
-Second Crusade (1147 - 1149)
- Third Crusade (1189 - 1192)
- Fourth Crusade (1202-1024)
-Final Crusade (13th Century)

85
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1453

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The fall of Constantinople
- 41 years before Columbus

86
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1347 - 1351

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Bubonic Plague (Black Death)
- Wiped out 50% of Europe’s population

87
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1215

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Signing of the Magna Carta

88
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1519 - 1533

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Spanish conquests of the Aztecs and Incas

89
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1803 - 1815

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Napoleonic Wars

90
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1513

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Juan Ponce De Leon explores and names Florida

91
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1565

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First European settlement founded (St. Augustine, FLorida)

92
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1497

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English explorer John Cabot explores Canada

93
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2600 - 2500 BCE (4,625 years ago)

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Creation of the Egyptian Pyramids

94
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1206 - 1369 CE

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The Mongols, under Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous empire in the world

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