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1455
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Gutenberg Bible printed
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c. 1460
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China: First exportation of Ming porcelain
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1469–1539
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India: Nanak, founder
of Sikhism
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1477
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Spain: Inquisition renewed
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1503
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
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1509–1564
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Switzerland: John Calvin leads Reformation
at Geneva
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1511
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Erasmus writes In Praise of
Folly
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1512
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Michelangelo completes painting ceiling
of Sistine Chapel
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1513
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Italy: Niccolò Machiavelli writes The
Prince
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1515–1582
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Spain: St. Teresa of Ávila
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1516
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England: Sir Thomas
More’s Utopia
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1517
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Selling of indulgences under Pope Leo
X
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1517
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Luther’s 95 Theses begin the
Reformation
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c. 1520–1560
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Wu painting in China
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1521
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Charles V condemns Luther at Diet of
Worms
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1528
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Aztec Annals of Tlatelolco
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1529
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Reformation Parliament severs ties with Church of
Rome
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1532–1623
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Indian poet Tulsi Das
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1534
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Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
founded
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1535
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Sir Thomas More executed in England
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1541–1614
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Spanish painter El Greco
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1545
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Council of Trent reforms
Catholicism
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1547–1579
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Florentine Codex collects Aztec
literature
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1549
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England: Cranmer’s Book of Common
Prayer set to music
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1550–1617
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Chinese dramatist T’ang
Hsien-tsu
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1553
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England: Protestants persecuted under
Queen Mary
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1553–1616
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England: William Shakespeare
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1560
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China: Hsu Wei’s Ching P’ing Mei
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1560
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John Knox founds Presbyterian
Church
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1572–1631
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English poet John Donne
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1575
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Baroque period begins
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1577–1660
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Dutch painter Peter Paul
Rubens
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1580
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France: Michel de Montaigne’s first
essays
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1583
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Akbar I orders religious toleration in
India
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1586
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Japan: Kabuki theater
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1596
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Edmund Spenser’sThe Faerie Queen
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1598–1600
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Globe Theatre built in London; Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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1605–1615
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Miguel de Cervantes’sDon
Quixote
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1606–1669
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Dutch artist Rembrandt von
Rijn
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1611
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King James Bible
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1620
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Mayflower Compact in
Massachusetts
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1632–1704
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English philosopher John
Locke
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1634–1638
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Taj Mahal completed in India
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1644–1694
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Basho Matsuo, Japanese haiku
poet
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1645
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Tibet: Residence of Dalai Lama established
in Lhasa
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1646–1716
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German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz
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1651
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Thomas Hobbes’sLeviathan
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1652
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Society of Friends ( Quakers) founded
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1664–1667
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Racine and Molière publish
in France
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1667
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John Milton’sParadise Lost
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1669
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Persecution of Hindus by Mughals
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1677
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Baruch Spinoza’sEthics published
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1685–1759
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German-born G. F. Handel composes in
England
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1685–1750
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German composer Johann Sebastian
Bach
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1688–1744
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British poet Alexander Pope
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1689
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English Bill of Rights
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1689
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Toleration Act in England
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1692
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Witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts
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1701
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First translation of Mayan sacred text Popul Vuh
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1709
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Italy: Piano invented
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1710
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George Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge
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1715
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France: Rococo architecture
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1720
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Japan: Shogun Yoshimune allows study of
European books
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1725
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Antonio Vivaldi’sFour Seasons concertos
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1726
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Jonathan Swift’sGulliver’s
Travels
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1735
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America: Zenger trial establishes freedom of the
press
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1739
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David Hume’sTreatise on Human
Nature
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1746–1828
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Franciso Goya, Spanish artist
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1748
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Japan: Samurai plays
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1749
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Henry Fielding’sTom Jones
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1450–1750: Humanities & Culture
