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29 Cards in this Set
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1348 - 1351 |
Black death |
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1415 -1417 |
Council of Constane burns Hus. Ends Great Schism |
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1453 |
Fall of Constantinople; end of 100 years war |
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1455 |
Printing press |
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1492 |
Reconquista Columbus sailed to New World |
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1517 |
Luther's ninety-five theses |
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1519 |
Cortez conquers Aztecs |
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1534 |
Act of Supremacy; Anglican Church |
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1536 |
Calvin establishes reformed faith in Geneva |
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1543 |
Copernicus establishes Heliocentric theory |
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1545 |
Council of Trent -Luther's ideas rejected -get rid of indulgences, celibacy, and monasteries and nunneries |
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1555 |
Peace of Augsburg; Charles V abdicates |
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1588 |
Defeat of Spanish Armada |
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1598 |
Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars |
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1600 |
Dutch East India Company |
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1603 |
Stuart monarchy in England |
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1648 |
Peace of Westphalia |
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1649 |
Charles I executed in England |
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1678 |
Newton publishes "Principia" |
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1688 - 1689 |
Glorious Revolution; Peter the Great in Russia |
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1694 |
Bank of England |
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1713 -1715 |
Peace of Utrecht; death of Louis XIV |
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1740 |
War of Austrian Succession |
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1763 |
Treaty of Paris ends 7 years war |
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1776 |
American revolution |
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1789 |
French Revolution begins |
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1799 |
Napoleon comes to power in France |
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1525 |
Peasants revolt |
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1649 - 1653 |
Fronde |
