305-329 AD
- Edict of Milan (313 AD)
- Council of Nicaea (325 AD)
550-574 AD
- Second Council of Constantinople (553 AD)
- Muhammad is born (570 AD)
795 - 819 AD
- Carolingian Renaissance in Europe
- Charlemagne becomes Holy Roman Emperor (800 AD)
1041-1063
- Movable type printing is developed in China
- Great Schism between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches (1054)
1286-1308
- Scottish War of Independence begins (1296)
- Switzerland is established (1291)
- Ottoman Empire is established (1299)
1532-1553
- Protestant Reformation spreads in Europe (began in 1517)
- Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire begins (1532)
- Church of England rejects papal authority (1534)
- Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543)
1777-1797
- American Revolutionary War (between 1775 and 1783)
- Immanuel Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
- Uranus is discovered (1781)
- French Revolution (between 1789 and 1799)
- Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
- Smallpox vaccine is created (1796)
Sources
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