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COLUMBUS SAILED TO THE AMERICAS
- August 3 1492
- Columbus led his three ships- the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa maria- out of the spanish port of Palos.
- Columbus thought he could sail west and reach Asia, but he landed in the Caribbean and thought it was the East Indies.
CORTEZ CONQUERS THE AZTECS.
- April 13 1521
- It was lead by Hernando Cortez.
- A battle was between the army of Cortes and Aztec people under the rule of Montezuma.
- Those events were crucial to the making of the American lands.
- Also, it's been the subject of a historical debate in these present years.
COPERNICUS PRESENTS THE HELIOCENTRIC THEORY
- April 13 1543
- It was a theory that he sun was the center of the Universe.
- Copernicus wrote a book called, ""on the revolutions of the heavenly bodies"".
- The result of him making that book made the Catholic and Protestant church very mad.
EUROPE SUFFERS FROM INFLATION
- When the increasing amount of gold coming to Spain, the gold was being worth less.
- That result made Spain have inflation.
- A result of the inflation was warfare, plague, famine.
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PHILLIP II SENDS AN ARMADA TO INVADE ENGLAND
- April 17 1588
- The invasion was a disaster because England's ships were a lot faster and smaller.
- But, if the invasion went well, Protestantism in England would have come to an end.
KING JAMES GIVES CHARTER TO LONDON INVESTOR
- April 17 1606
- King James gave a charter to found a colony in North America to a group of London investors.
- Those colonists were more focused on finding gold and weren't really planting crops.
- The result was many died from hunger and disease.
ENGLISH SETTLE JAMESTOWN
- May 14 1607
- English settlement in the Chesapeake region of North America
- By December, 104 settlers went from London to settle Virginia, find gold, and seek a water route to the Orient.
- People believe that those pioneers in Jamestown could not have been more ill-suited for the task.
LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE BEGINS HIS REIGN
- December 15 1643
- When he became king, he was very popular.
- At his death, the people of Paris hated him because his many wars had made him unpopular.
- He was also known as the Sun King.
PETER THE GREAT OF RUSSIA BEGINS HIS REIGN
- April 13 1682.
- Peter became tsar when he was only ten years old.
- Peter implemented sweeping reforms aimed at modernizing Russia
- In his early years at a tsar, he wasnt interested in governemtnt,
GLORIOUS REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND
- April 13 1688
- William of Orange and his Mary were invited by the Parliament to take power in England.
- The Glorious Revolution was called "glorious" because there were no bloodshed involved.
- James II wanted to rule and established the Roman Catholic religion which the people did not like.
