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Trial Run
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| Political | War | Date |
Economic, Cultural |
Science, Technology | ||
| 1450 |
1492 Columbus |
1455 Gutenberg, printing | ||||
| 1500 |
1517 Martin Luther |
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1558 Queen Elizabeth |
1588 England routes Spanish Armada | !550 |
!595 Shakespeare |
1590 Lenses, microscope | ||
| 1648 30 Years War ends | 1600 |
1604 King James Bible |
1632 Galileo | |||
| 1689 English Bill of Rights | 1683 Ottoman Empire attacks Vienna | 1650 | 1686 Newton | |||
| 1701 United Kingdom of Great Britain. | 1700 | 1720 Last of bubonic plague in Central Europe. | ||||
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1783 King George accepts
independence of 13 colonies 1791 U.S. Constitution ratified |
1755 French-Indian War 1776 Battle of Bunker Hill |
1750 |
1773 Boston Tea Party 1776 Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations 1790 Mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty |
1765 Watt, steam engine |
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| 1836 Texas independence |
1812 War of 1812 (U.S) 1846 U.S war with Mexico |
1800 | 1803 Louisiana Purchase |
1807 Fulton steamboat 1834 Babbage, analytical engine |
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| 1865 Lincoln assassinated |
1861-1865 U.S. Civil
War 1898 Spanish-American war |
1850 |
1869 U.S. transcontinental
railroad 1851 Melville, Moby Dick |
1879 Edison, electric light 1888 Eastman camera 1896, Marconi, radio |
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1919 Versailles Treaty,
League of Nations 1947 Marshall Plan 1949 NATO |
1918 WW1 ends 1939 WW2 starts |
1900 |
1912 Titanic 1929 Great Depression starts |
1903 Wright Brothers,
airplane 1945 Atomic bomb |
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