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The Treaty of Tordesillas

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1494

Brokered by the Pope, it splits the undsicovered world between Spain and Portugal.

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Columbus discovers America

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1492

he sees the West Indies

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The discovery of Newfoundland

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1497

by John Cabot

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Discovery of the sea route to India

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1498

by Vasco da Gama

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The Portuguese capture Melaka

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1511

the hub of the spice trade in western Malasia

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The completion of the Sistine Chapel ceiling

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1512

by Michelangelo

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Machiavelli writes the Prince

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1513

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Martin Luther prepares his 95 Theses

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1517

The apocryphal story is that he nails them to the door of the Wittenberg Church door

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Cortez conquers the Aztecs

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1520

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Magellan sails around the world

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1522

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The German Peasant War

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1524-25

Approximately 100,000 are killed.

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The sack of Rome

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1527

by the armies of the HRE under the command of Francis I

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The Diet of Augsburg

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1530

The confessions of Augsburg set out the central tenets of Lutheranism

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the conquest of the Incas

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1532

By Pissarro

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The Supremacy Act

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1535

of Henry VIII

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Publication of On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres

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1543

Polish astronomer Copernicus puts the sun at the center of the universe.

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The first Tsar of Russia

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1547

Ivan the Terrible

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The Peace of Augsburg

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1555
The struggle between Catholics and Protestants in the HRE ends with the compromise that the prince decides the religion of his territory.

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Elizabeth I in enthroned

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1558

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Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world

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1580

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Roanoke is founded

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1585
The first colony
In North Carolina
ends if failure

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The defeat of the Spanish Armada

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1588

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The Edict of Nantes

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1598

Henry IV decrees religious toleration

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The formation of the British India Company

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1600

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The Jamestown settlement

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1607

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Plymouth Colony

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1620

Established by the Pilgrims from the Mayflower.

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The 30-Years War

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1618-48

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Galileo advocates for the Copernican system

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1632-33

He is convicted by the Papal inquisition of suspicion of heresy.

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The Peace of Westphalia

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1648
ends the 30-Years War in the HRE and the 80-year Spanish-Dutch war and leads to the primacy of the nation state as a form of political organization.

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