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Jan Hus burned at the stake 1415Ottomans conquered Constantinople 1453Da Vinci’s Ginerva de Benci completed 1476Topkapi Palace completed 1478Suleymaniye mosque completed 1478Columbus departs on first voyage 1492Vasco de Gama reaches India, having sailed around Africa 1497David completed 1504Waldseemuller's map completed, showing the Americas as a landmass for the first time 1507Erasmus’ Praise of Folly published 1511Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel completed 151295 Theses 1517Cortez conquers the Aztecs under Montezuma 1521Zwingli’s 67 Articles 1523Pizarro conquers the Inca 1533Suleiman the Lawgiver’s reign begins (Islamic world gets law code based on Islamic religious texts) 1530Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres published 1543City of Potosi founded at Potosi silver mine 1545Massacre at Wassy,( a massacre of French Protestants in the “wars of religion”), 1562Roanoke founded by the English 1585Quebec founded by the French 1608Thirty Years War begins 1618Galileo’s Trial 1633Jean Baptiste Colbert begins his role as Finance Minister of France (height of mercantilist policies in France) 1665Newton publishes Principia Mathematica, 1687Leeuwenhoek observes single-celled organisms in his microscope, 1676Charles I executed (English rebel against King that limits their rights) 1649James II exiled(English rebel against King that they feel does not represent them)1688English Bill of Rights signed (English insist that the monarchy is limited by certain laws, citizens have certain protected rights 1689Versailles palace completed (height of absolutism in France) 1710
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