Classical Acts & Facts History Cards New World

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• 1 Age of Exploration c. 1400 - c. 1600
• 2 Prince Henry Founds School of Navigation c. 1419
• 3 Slave Trade in Africa c. 1440
• 4 Gutenberg's Printing Press c. 1455
• 5 Songhai in Africa 1460
• 6 Czar Ivan the Great of Russia 1462
• 7 The Spanish Inquisition 1478
• 8 Columbus Sails to the Caribbean 1492
• 9 Age of Absolute Monarchs c. 1500 - c. 1800
• 10 Protestant Reformation 1517
• 11 Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas 1519
• 12 Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion 1536
• 13 Council of Trent 1545
• 14 Baroque Period of the Arts c. 1600
• 15 Japan's Isolation 1603
• 16 Jamestown and Plymouth Colony Founded 1607, 1620
• 17 Age of Enlightenment c. 1650 - c. 1800
• 18 Hudson's Bay Company 1670
• 19 First Great Awakening 1734
• 20 Classical Period of the Arts c. 1750
• 21 The Seven Years' War 1756
• 22 Age of Industry c. 1760 - c. 1969
• 23 James Cook Sails to Australia and Antarctica 1769
• 24 American Revolution and General George Washington 1775
• 25 Madison's Constitution and the Bill of Rights 1787
• 26 French Revolution 1789
• 27 Second Great Awakening c. 1790
• 28 Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark Expedition 1803
• 29 Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France 1804
• 30 Liberation of South America 1808
• 31 The War of 1812
• 32 The Missouri Compromise 1820
• 33 Immigrants Flock to America c. 1820
• 34 The Monroe Doctrine 1823
• 35 Romantic Period of the Arts c. 1825
• 36 Cherokee Trail of Tears 1838
• 37 U.S. Westward Expansion 1843
• 38 Marx Publishes The Communist Manifesto 1848
• 39 The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Decision 1850, 1857
• 40 U.S. Restores Trade with Japan 1853
• 41 British Queen Victoria's Rule Over India 1858
• 42 Darwin Publishes The Origin of Species 1859