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| 1500 |
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Madonna and Child by Michelangelo
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| 1501 |
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Safavid dynasty rules Iran (1501 - 1722)
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| 1502 |
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(1) Machiavelli and the Borgas
(2) Montezuma II becomes Aztec emperor
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| 1503 |
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa
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| 1506 |
Charles of Ghent inherits the Burgundian possessions of his father Philip I
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Christopher Columbus dies
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Francis Xavier born
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| 1508 |
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Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
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| 1509 |
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Henry VIII assumes English throne
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| 1510 |
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Portugese ship slaves to the Americas
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| 1512 |
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Amerigo Vespucci dies
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| 1513 |
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(1) Florida discovered by Ponce de Leon
(2) Balboa sees the Pacific
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| 1516 |
Charles of Ghent proclaimed king of Aragon and Castile after the death of his grandfather Ferdinand II
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| 1517 |
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Martin Luther's 95 Theses begins the Reformation
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| 1519 |
Charles of Ghent secures election as King of the Romans with financial support from the Fugger banking family
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Ferdinand Magellan leaves to circumnavigate the world
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| 1520 |
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Field of the Cloth of Gold; Fabulous meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England
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| 1521 |
(1) Portugal rules Bahrain 1521 - 1602
(2) Battle of Tenochtitlan; Cortes completes conquest of Aztec Empire
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Magellan killed in the Philippines
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At the Imperial Diet of Worms, Martin Luther refuses to recant his critique of the Catholic Church and Charles V declares him a heretic
(1521 to 1521) |
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| 1524 |
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German peasant revolt
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| 1525 |
(1) Spanish army defeats French at Battle of Pavia; Spain becomes dominant power in Italy
(2) Imperial-Spanish army commanded by Charles de Lannoy defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia and takes French king Francis I captive
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| 1526 |
(1) Battle of Panipat
(2) Mogul-Afghan War
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| 1527 |
Imperial troops sack Rome
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| 1528 |
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Albrecht Durer dies
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| 1530 |
Pope Clement VII crowns Charles as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
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Augsburg Confessions
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| 1531 |
Spanish Conquest of Peru begins
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| 1532 |
Battle of Cajamarca
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Machiavelli's The Prince
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| 1533 |
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Kabir Nanak dies
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| 1534 |
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Cartier in Canada
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(1) Martin Luther publishes a full translation of the Old and New Testaments in German
(2) England splits from Roman Catholic Church; Henry VIII confiscates church property and establishes Church of England
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| 1535 |
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Sir Thomas More executed
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| 1536 |
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Anne Boylen executed
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(1) Erasmus dies
(2) John Calvin's Protestant theological tract Institutes of the Christian Religion
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| 1539 |
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De Soto explores Florida
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| 1540 |
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Order of the Jesuits founded
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| 1541 |
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(1) De Soto finds the Mississippi River
(2) Coronado reaches Kansas
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El Greco born
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| 1543 |
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Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory and dies shortly thereafter
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| 1545 |
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First Council of Trent meets in response to the Protestant Reformation
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| 1546 |
Smalkaldic War
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Tycho Brahe born
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| 1547 |
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Henry VIII dies
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| 1549 |
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Christianity reaches Japan
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| 1552 |
Charles V loses power
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Francis Xavier dies
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| 1554 |
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Lady Jane Grey executed
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| 1555 |
Peace of Augsburg
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Charles V abdicates; Philip II becomes king of Habsburg territories in Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands
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| 1556 |
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Akbar the Mongol in India
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| 1558 |
Battle of St. Quentin
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Queen Mary I dies
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| 1559 |
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(1) Queen Elizabeth coroneted
(2) Charles V dies
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John Knox
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| 1561 |
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(1) St. Basil in Moscow completed
(2) St Paul's in London burns
(3) Francis Bacon born
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| 1562 |
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French Wars of Religion begin
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| 1564 |
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Galileo born
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(1) Shakespeare born
(2) Michelangelo dies
(3) Calvin Hobbes dies
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| 1565 |
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St Augustine, Florida founded
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| 1566 |
Netherlands revolt against Spain
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| 1567 |
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Rio de Janeiro founded
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| 1571 |
Combined Spanish, Venetian, and Papal fleet destroys Ottoman fleet at Battle of Lepanto
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Johann Kepler born
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| 1572 |
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St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre begins in France; Thousands of Calvinist Huguenots killed throughout France
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| 1573 |
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Caravaggio born
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| 1576 |
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Frobisher searches for the Northwest Passage
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First theatre in England built
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| 1577 |
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Peter Paul Rubens born
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| 1578 |
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Frederick II builds Tycho Brahe an observatory
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| 1581 |
Cossacks conquer Siberia
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| 1584 |
William of Orange Assassinated
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English attempt to establish colony on Roanoke Island; All colonists disappear
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| 1587 |
Mary, Queen of Scots dies
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| 1588 |
Spanish Armada defeated by English fleet; Spanish invasion of England fails due to battle and weather
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| 1592 |
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Pompeii discovered
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| 1593 |
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Henry IV of France converts to Catholicism to secure the French crown
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| 1598 |
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Henry IV grants concessions to Huguenots in the Edict of Nantes
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