Unit One - Key Dates

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The Black Plague arrives in Europe

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The Black Plague arrives in Europe

1347

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Prince Henry the Navigator founds a school of exploration on the southwest coast of Portugal

1419

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Lorenzo Valla writes On the Donation of Constantine

1440

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Gutenberg invents printing press

1450

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Columbus's voyage to the New World; the defeat of Muslim-controlled Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella

1492

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Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

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Erasmus writes In Praise of Folly

1509

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Martin Luther sparks the Protestant Reformation

1517

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Peace Treaty of Augsburg

1555

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The English defeat the Spanish Armada

1588

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The English East India Company is founded

1600

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The Dutch East India Company is founded

1602

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