| 1231-1808 |
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Papal Inquisition |
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| 1454-1611 |
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The Renaissance |
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| 1478-1834 |
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Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition |
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| 1558-1603 |
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Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor) |
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| 1603-1625 |
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Reign of King James I (Stuart) |
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| 1603 |
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Heavy outbreak of plague in England |
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| 1603 |
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Galileo invents Thermometer |
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| 1605 |
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Telescope |
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| 1605 |
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Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up parliament |
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| 1606 |
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Virginia Company Chartered |
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| 1606 |
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Australia discovered by William Jansz |
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| 1607 |
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Jamestown Colony Established |
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| 1608 |
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Quebec founded |
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| 1609 |
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Kepler's laws of planetary motion |
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| 1611 |
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King James Bible is published |
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| 1612 |
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Last (recorded) burning of heretics in England |
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| 1612 |
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Tobacco planted in Virginia |
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| 1614 |
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Dutch trading post on Manhatten Island |
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| 1615 |
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Galileo faces inquisition (1st time) |
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| 1618-1648 |
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30 years war |
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| 1619 |
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1st negro slaves arrive in Virginia |
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| 1620 |
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Mayflower lands at Plymouth |
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| 1620 |
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Sir Francis Bacon suggests heat may be movement |
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| 1620 |
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Scientific Method, via Sir Francis Bacon |
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| 1620 |
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First Submarine (Cornelius van Drebel, Dutch) |
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| 1625 |
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English population in America hits 2000 |
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| 1625-1649 |
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Reign of King Charles I (Stuart) |
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| 1626 |
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Manhatten island purchased from Indians by Dutch |
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| 1629 |
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Colony of Massachusetts founded |
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| 1630-1642 |
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English aggressively settle Massachusetts |
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| 1633 |
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Colony of Connecticut founded |
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| 1633 |
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Heads of households in New England reaches 950 |
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| 1634 |
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1st settlement in Maryland |
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| 1635 |
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Connecticut first settled |
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| 1639 |
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1st printing press in America (Massachusetts) |
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| 1642-1649 |
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English Civil War |
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| 1642 |
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Pascal invents Calculator |
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| 1643 |
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Barometer invented |
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| 1645 |
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Rainbow, 1st American slave ship, sails for Africa |
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| 1649-1660 |
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Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) |
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| 1650 |
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Chattel slavery officially recognized |
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| 1650 |
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World pop. est. at 500 million |
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| 1652 |
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Air Pump invented |
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| 1652-1654 |
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Anglo-Dutch war |
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| 1654 |
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Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat |
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| 1655 |
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Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England |
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| 1657 |
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First Stockings |
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| 1657 |
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Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo |
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| 1660 |
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Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton |
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| 1660 |
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British Navigation Acts restrict commerce |
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| 1660-1685 |
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Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) |
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| 1661 |
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Manometer |
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| 1664-1665 |
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Great Plague in London kills 68,596 |
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| 1664 |
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English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired |
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| 1665 |
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Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) |
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| 1666 |
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Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000 buildings burned |
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| 1666 |
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1st Armenian Bible printed |
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| 1668 |
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Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope |
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| 1675-1676 |
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King Phillip's War |
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| 1678 |
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Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) |
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| 1679 |
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Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment |
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| 1680 |
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Dodo becomes extinct |
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| 1681 |
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Pennsylvania founded |
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| 1682 |
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Appearance of Halley's Comet |
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| 1683 |
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Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation |
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| 1684 |
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Street lighting introduced in London |
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| 1687 |
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Newton publishes his Laws of Motion |
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| 1688 |
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Plate glass cast for 1st time |
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| 1689-1702 |
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Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart) |
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| 1692 |
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The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA |
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| 1700-1721 |
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Great Northern War |
