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Volume 3: Early Modern Times a Flashcards

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The first Ming dynasty emperor rules in China

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1368

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John Cabot disappears in the northern Atlantic

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1498

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Giovanni da Verrazano first sails across the Atlantic for France

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1524

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Jacques Cartier’s first arrival in Canada

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1534

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Sebastian Cabot’s expedition sets off on the northeast route

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1553

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The Peace of Augsburg allows each German state to follow its own religion

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1555

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Charles V relinquishes the title Holy Roman Empire

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1555

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Philip II inherits the throne of Spain from his father, Charles V

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1555

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Ferdinand I, Charles’s brother, niherits Charles’s lands and title

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1556

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Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in England

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1567

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Englishman Martin Frobisher sails into Frobisher’s Strait

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1576

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Nzinga of Angola born

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1583

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John Davis leads an expedition to find teh Northwest Passage

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1587

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Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded

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1587

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Abbas I becomes shah of Persia

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1588

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Hideyoshi directs Japan’s first invasion of Korea

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1592

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Philip II of Spain dies

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1598

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Samuel Champlain’s first arrival in Canada

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1603

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Elizabeth I dies and James I (James VI of Scotland) comes to the throne

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1603

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Ieyasu becomes shogun of Japan

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1603

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Jahangir (World Seizer) becomes emperor of India

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1605

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Ieyasu appoints his son Hidetada as shogun

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1605

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Jamestown colony founded in Virginia

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1607

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Henry Hudson makes his first voyage to the northwest

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1607

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Quebec colony founded in Canada

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1608

26
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Henry Hudson is set adrift in Hudson Bay

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1611

27
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Pocahontas marries john Rolfe

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1614

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Ieyasu Tokugawa dies

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1616

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The Thirty Years War begins with the Bohemian revolt

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1618

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The Mayflower sets sail for the New World

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1620

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Sultan Murad IV comes to the throne of the Ottoman Empire

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1623

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Iemitsu becomes the third Tokugawa shogun

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1623

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Charles I becomes king of England

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1625

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Jahangir of India dies

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1627

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Shah Jahan (King of the World) becomes emperor of India

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1628

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Shah Abbas I of Persia dies

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1629

37
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Iemitsu closes the ports of Japan

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1633

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The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II dies

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1637

39
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Samuel Champlain dies

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1638

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European traders are forbidden to enter Japan

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1641

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Cardinal Richelieu dies

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1638

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Li Tzu-ch’eng enters Peking with his army

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1644

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The Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War

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1648

44
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Charles II of England is executed

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1649

45
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Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England

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1653

46
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Aurangzeb (Conqueror of the World) becomes emperor of India

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1658

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Oliver Cromwell dies

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1658

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Charles II is invited to return to England from exile in France

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1660

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K’ang-hsi takes the throne of Manchu China

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1661

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Queen Nzinga of Angola dies

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1663

51
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The Plague decimates London

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1665

52
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Shah Jahan of India dies

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1666

53
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The Great Fire of London

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1666

54
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Peter the Great is born

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1672

55
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King Philip’s War begins on June 20

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1675

56
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The fighting ends in King Philip’s War

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1678

57
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The city of Philadelphia is founded in the colony of Pennsylvania

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1681

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