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... Note that only events judged to have world significance are included. Apologies for the inevitable bias toward Western as well as twentieth century events—we are all prisoners of our own history. For a less whirlwind glance at the last thousand years, see our Millennium Timeline. ... 1387—Chaucers Canterbury Tales
1399—Tamerlane begins last great conquest
1438—Incan Empire formed in Peru
1455—Gutenbergs movable-type printing press produces the Bible
1492—Columbus reaches the New World
1509—Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
1513—Machiavellis The Prince
1517—Martin Luther initiates Reformation
1519—Aztec Empire at height as Spanish arrive
1520—Suleiman I “the Magnificent” presides over the Ottoman Empires greatest period
1522—Magellans expedition circumnavigates the globe
1543—Copernicus postulates a heliocentric universe
1582—Pope Gregory XIII reforms calendar
1603—Shakespeares Hamlet
1605—Cervantess Don Quixote, first modern novel
1609—Galileo makes first astronomical observations with a telescope
1637—Descartes publishes Discours de la méthode
1643—Taj Mahal completed
1664—Newtons theory of universal gravitation
1667—Miltons Paradise Lost
1684—Leibnizs calculus published
1690—Lockes Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1721—Bach completes the Brandenburg Concertos
1755—Johnsons Dictionary of the English Language
1760—Industrial Revolution begins in England
1762—Rousseaus The Social Contract
1764—Mozart (aged eight) writes first symphony
1769—Watt patents first practical steam engine
1776—U.
Approximate Word count = 567
Approximate Pages = 2.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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