Timeline - 11th to 20th Century

Timeline - 11th to 20th Century
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11th Century - The first century of the new millennium
began with Leif Eriksson finding his way to North America,
and ended with Christian zealots and soldiers marching to
the Holy Land with mayhem in mind. It was also notable for
literary brilliance in Japan, the Battle of Hastings, the decline
of Byzantium and a hero called El Cid.

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1000 - Leif Eriksson sails west
1008 - Literary brilliance (Japan)
1014 - A dynasty peaks (India)
1015 - Cave of 1,000 Buddhas
1016 - Canute the Great
1044 - The reign of Canute the Great
1050 - Mississippian Epicenter
1062 - Almoravids build Marrakech
1066 - The Battle of Hastings
1071 - Decline of the Byzantine Empire
1074 - El Cid takes Valencia
1099 - The Crusades begin

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12th century - Civilizations rose and fell during the 12th
century, but it was a period also notable for innovations
and creativity. The nautical compass made its way to the
West, the modern university concept took hold, Arab scho-
lars revived classical learning and Europeans built cathe-
drals of stunning beauty.

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1100 - Civilizations wax and wane
1102 - Heroic poets
1105 (c.) - Revolutionizing weaponry (gunpowder)
1117 - The nautical compass
1147 - Falling dynasties
1150 - The modern university
1150 (c.) - Monument to a king
1169 - Islam rescues the classics
1170 - The martyrdom of Thomas Becket
1174 - 17 feet out of plumb (Leaning Tower of Pisa)
1192 - A respite for the crusaders
1194 - The splendor of Chartres

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13th Century - The Mongols swept west as their leader
Genghis Khan unified nomadic tribes. Meanwhile, one Cru-
sade after another failed to take Jerusalem, and Pope Gregory
IX launched the Inquisition to tighten the church's control. In
England, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta and
Roger Bacon predicted such things as automobiles and motor-
ized ships.

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1200 - Cliff palace (Colorado)
1204 - Crusades
1206 - Mongol conquest
1209 - London Bridge
1209 - Brother Sun (Francis of Assisi)
1215 - Undermining the Monarchy (Magna Carta)
1231 - The Church turns to torture (Inquisition)
1235 - From here to Timbuktu
1260 - Kublai Khan makes his mark
1265 - Faith vs. Reason (St. Thomas Aquinas)
1286 - Making spectacles
1297 - Braveheart (William Wallace)

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14th Century - In the 14th century, fierce, often brutal, war-
riors carved out dynasties in Turkey and India, while others
battled in places like Kosovo. Meanwhile, England and France
began their Hundred Years' War as peasants in both countries
revolted against oppression. And a catastrophic plague killed
an estimated 25 million people.

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1300 (c.) - Rise of the Ottomans
1305 (c.) - Statues on Easter Island
1320 - A Turkish Sultan in India
1324 - Mansa Musa's pilgrimage
1325 - Metropolis in the marsh (Tenochtitlan)
1337 - One hundred years of war
1347 - The Black Death
1353 - Ibn Battutah settles down
1358 - The Peasants Revolt
1369 - Timur the Lame
1378 - The Great Schism (Popes)
1389 - Serbs routed at Kosovo

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15th Century - The 15th century began with admiral Zheng
He establishing China as a maritime power, and saw a city
rise in India and two civilizations peak in sub-Saharan Africa.
In Europe, artists triggered the Renaissance, Gutenberg intro-
duced the printed word and Columbus sailed west seeking
a new route to China.

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1400 - Death of a poet (Geoffrey Chaucer)
1405 - Zheng He shows the flag
1411 - Ahmad Shah builds a city
1413 - The Renaissance
1440 (c.) - Birth of a habit (coffee)
1450 (c.) - Great Zimbabwe
1452 - The universal man (Leonardo da Vinci)
1453 - The Ottomans take Constantinople
1453 - End of a long, long war
1455 - Gutenberg's Bible
1462 - Rise of the Songhai
1492 - Columbus sails west

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16th Century - Although it was the century of the compass,
the 16th was also the century of the empire. No less than
seven empires had their beginnings, coalesced or peaked
during this period, and another -- Spain -- began its decline.
It was also a time for revolutions in religion and science,
and for a new calendar that brought record-keeping back
in sync with the natural world.

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1500 - Songhai glory
1517 - The Church besieged (Martin Luther)
1519 - Rise of the Hasburgs
1520 - Suleyman the Magnificent
1522 - First around the world (Ferdinand Magellan)
1535 - A new leaf (tobacco)
1543 - The human body
1547 - Ivan the Terrible
1556 - The Mogul Empire
1573 - Japanese unification
1582 - Gregorian calendar
1588 - Defeat of the Spanish armada

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17th Century - The 17th century saw European commercial-
ization of the East Indies and settlement in the New World,
the beginning of a dynasty in China and the decline of another
in Eurasia, and advances with the telescope and microscope
that revolutionized science and man's awareness of his place
in the universe.

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1600 - East India Inc.
1600 - Showdown at the Pass (Japan)
1607 - Settling the new world
1609 - Read all about it
1610 - A heliocentric universe (Galileo Galilei)
1618 - 30 years of war (Catholics, Protestants)
1625 (c.) - Queen Nzinga says no
1642 - Britain's uncivil war
1644 - Manchus rising
1666 - The apple of Newton's eye
1674 - Under a microscope
1683 - The empire declines (Ottoman)

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18th Century - The 18th was a century of antecedents: The
decline of the Moguls in India presaged the rise of the British
Empire; James Watt's steam engine engendered the Industrial
Revolution; and political revolutions in North America and
France changed the face of Europe.

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1707 - Decline of the Moguls
1722 - Bach at work
1725 - Russian 'greats'
1750 (c.) - Gold Coast Empire
1755 - Lisbon earthquake
1756 - Seven Years' War
1769 - Steam power
1775 - American revolution
1789 - Revolt in France
1796 - A shot in the arm
1798 - Napolean on the march
1799 - Rosetta stone

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19th Century - The 19th century was a celebration of man's
inventiveness and his desire to be free. The telegraph, the
telephone and the incandescent light are a few of the devices
wrought during a period when Haitians, South Americans,
American slaves and Europeans pressed for or were granted
their freedom.

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1804 - Freedom
1815 - Napolean's Waterloo
1816 - Shaka the Zulu
1825 - Bolivar the Liberator
1839 - Tires and refrigerators
1844 - Instant communication
1848 - A revolutionary year
1851 - Machines, steel and oil
1861 - War between the states
1869 - The Suez shortcut
1878 - Turning on the light
1882 - The disease detector

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20th Century - The 20th century was one of paradoxes.
Accelerating technological innovations provided man with
more food, more money, more opportunity and more free-
dom than ever. But it also produced pollution, overpopula-
tion, two global wars and a host of smaller ones.

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1905 - Einstein changes the rules
1908 - Tin Lizzie
1914 - World Wide War
1918 - Epidemics
1929 - Black days on Wall Street
1939 - The Big One
1950 - Red Empires
1951 - Univac I
1955 - Rock on
1962 - Pollution
1969 - The wings of man
1976 - Wholesale violence

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