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1453: End of 100 years war, fall of Constantinople to ottoman Turks
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1492: Columbus, Reconquista, expulsion of jews from Spain
3.
1517: Luther's 95 Theses
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1545-1563: Council Of Trent
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1572: French Religous Wars
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1588: Spanish Armada
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1602: Dutch East India Co.
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1603: Death of Elizabeth, beginning of Stuart house in England
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1618-1648: Thirty Years War(ended by Peace of Westphalia)
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1642-1649: English Civil War
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1643-1715: Louis XIV
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1687: Newton's Principia
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1688-1689: Glorious Revolution
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1713: Peace of Utrecht
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1763: Treaty of Paris ends Seven Year's War
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1776: American Revolution
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1789: French Revolution
18.
1815: Waterloo(end oof Napoleon)
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1848: Year of revolutions
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1861: Italy unified
21.
1871: Unification of Germany
22.
1914: WWI begins
23.
1917: Bolshevik revolution
24.
1939: WWII begins
25.
1945: end of WWII, United Nations founded
26.
1953: death of Stalin
27.
1956: Krushev's de-Stalinization speech
28.
1968: French student revolts, Czech "Prague Spring" revolt
29.
1979: Thatcher elected prime minister
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1980: Solidarity in Poland
31.
1989: Berlin Wall falls, collapse of communism
32.
1992: Maastricht treaty creates European Union(EU)
33.
1999: Euro currency introduced