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THE MAKING OF EUROPE / EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY

From Hutton Webster's, Early European History (1917); edited for this on-line publication, by ELLOPOS

APPENDIX—Table of Events and Dates

Em. Macron, Rediscovering the Path to Europe

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TRANSITION TO MODERN TIMES

1453 Constantinople captured by the Ottoman Turks

1455-1485 War of the Roses

1461-1483 Louis XI, king of France

1462-1505 Ivan III, the Great, tsar of Russia

1476 Caxton's printing press set up in England

1479 Castile and Aragon united under Ferdinand and

1485-1509 Henry VII, king of England

1488 Cape of Good Hope rounded by Diaz

1492 America discovered by Columbus

1497 North America rediscovered by John Cabot

1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India

1513 Discovery of the Pacific by Balboa

1517-1555 Reformation in Germany

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THE MAKING OF EUROPE / EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY: Table of Contents

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IN PRINT

Cf. The Ancient Greece * The Ancient Rome
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) * Western Medieval Europe * Renaissance in Italy