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476

The fall of the western half of the Roman Empire; marks the end of antiquity

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1348

The start of the black death/bubonic plague; caused millions of deaths and wiped out most of Europe and other places in the world

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1440

Creation of the movable type printing press by Gutenburg; allowed for greater access to reading and revolutionized education

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1453

The fall of constantinople, and the end of the 100 years war; created the Ottoman Empire

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1492

Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas; this will lead to a lot of great achievements for Europe in the future, (colonization, massive wealth, globalism)

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1517

The posting of the 95 theses by Martin Luther; this led to the start of the protestant reformation, led to the creation of Lutheranism and showed the corruptions with the church

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1521

The diet of Worms; Martin Luther refused to recant his theses and he made an even bigger impression on the German and European people, leading to the further spread of his thoughts

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1530

The Augsburg Confession; was the statement of Lutheran beliefs which allowed more to follow it

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1534

Supremacy Act in England; Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church and the state was protestant now (anglican church)

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1536

The Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin; this showed his beliefs in predestination and spread like wildfire across France

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1555

Peace of Augsburg; Princes were allowed to choose their religion and that would be the religion of their state

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1562

French War of Religion Starts

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1572

St. Bartholomew's day massacre; led to a lot of Huguenots being killed in Paris, one of the worst events of the French wars of religion

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1588

Defeat of Spanish Armada; showing England is a present naval power now

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1598

Edict of Nantes; end of the French wars of religion, and the huguenots were given more rights and this tried to stop the huge gap in rights with Catholics

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1648

Peace of Westphalia, end of 30 years war, end of 80 years war with Spain and the Netherlands, Netherlands was indepedent