Timeline of Early Modern History (16th - 18th Century)

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Year	Question	Answer
1502	First reported _______ slaves in the New World	African
1503	Leonardo __ _____ begins painting the Mona Lisa	Da Vinci
1508	____________ begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling	Michelangelo
1512	__________ proclaims the sun as the centre of the universe	Copernicus
1517	The __________ Reformation begins when Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses	Protestant
1519	Hernan ______ leads the Spanish conquest of Mexico	Cortes
1531	The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church, with King _____ VIII as the head of the church	Henry
1532	Francisco _______ leads the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire	Pizarro
1547	____ the Terrible is crowned as the first tsar of Russia	Ivan
1564	Birth of William ___________	Shakespeare
1569	The ________ projection is published, a version of the world map	Mercator
1577	Sir Francis _____ begins circling the world	Drake
1582	Pope _______ XIII issues the Gregorian calendar	Gregory
1605	Guy Fawkes' _________ plot fails in England	Gunpowder
1611	First publication of the King James _____	Bible
1632	The building of the ___ _____ begins in Agra, India	Taj Mahal
1636	_______ University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts	Harvard
1641	Rene _________ publishes 'Meditations on First Philosophy'	Descartes
1663	Robert Hooke discovers _____ using a microscope	Cells
1665	The Great ______ of London	Plague
1666	The Great ____ of London	Fire
1687	Isaac ______ publishes Principia Mathematica	Newton
1721	Robert _______ becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain	Walpole
1756	The _____ Years' War is fought among European powers	Seven
1769	James ____ explores and maps New Zealand and Australia	Cook
1773	Boston ___ Party	Tea
1776	Declaration of ____________ is signed in Philadelphia	Independence
1787	The United States ____________ is submitted to the states for ratification	Constitution
1789	George __________ is elected first president of the US	Washington
1789	Beginning of the ______ Revolution	French
1796	________ Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander	Napoleon

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