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hirohoship on April 29, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1517 | Luther begins Protestant Revolution nailing 95 Theses to church door in Wittenberg |
| 1585 | Oedipus Tyrannus inaugurates Palladio's Teatro Olimpico in Vincenza, Italy |
| 1598 | Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini produce Dafne, the first opera |
| 1616 | George Chapman published first English translation of Homer's epics |
| 1683 | Parthenon bombarded by Venetians |
| 1720 | Mississippi Scheme and South Sea Bubble financial panics |
| 1748 | Excavations begin at Pompeii |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of Roman Empire, and Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations |
| 1789 | French Revolution begins |
| 1821-1831 | Greek War of Independence from Ottoman Empire |
| 1881 | Oxford and Cambridge begin performing ancient Greek tragedies |
| 1913 | Sears offers 1,000,000 volumes of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ for sale |
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