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The Renaissance begins in or around Florence, Italy

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Francesco Petrarch, the Father of Humanism is born. He dies in 1374.

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Johann Gutenberg invents the Printing Press

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Columbus sails the ocean blue

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Martin Luther's 95 Theses splits the church and starts the Reformation

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Magellan and his crew begin journey to circumnavigate the world

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King Henry the VIII breaks away from the Catholic Church and establishes the Church of England

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Roanoke Colony is founded in modern day NC. It is the second colony established in the "New World". The settlers mysteriously disappeared in 1590

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Renaissance Period ends

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The first permanent settlement in the "New World" is established in Jamestown (modern day Virginia)

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Thomas Hobbes publishes "Leviathan"

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John Locke publishes "Two Treatises on Civil Government

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The Enlightenment is believed to have begun

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Montesquieu writes "The Spirit of the Laws

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Diderot helps publish the first Encyclopedia

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The Industrial Revolution Begins

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Rousseau writes "The Social Contract"

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Voltaire publishes "The Treatise on Tolerance

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The American Revolution begins. Some scholars argue it actually started in 1765

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Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence

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Mary Wollstonecraft publishes "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" in England

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The American Revolution Ends

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End of the Age of Enlightenment. French Revolution Begins

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Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin invents the Guillotine

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French Revolution ends when Napoleon seizes power of France

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Wars for Latin American Independence begin

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Industrial Revolution ends, but the effects continue even into the 1900s!

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

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Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act regulating the employment of those under 16 or 18 years of age, and the Supreme Court upheld the law.