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  1. #ad
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  4. //  16th century
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  6. #p <nat>Flemish<o>geographer<n>Gerardus Mercator<b>1512 Mar 5<d>1594
  7. #e <t>discover<au>Mercator<n>earth's magnetic pole<d>1546<c>Flanders
  8.  
  9. #e <t>decree<n>First date of Gregorian calendar reform<c>Vatican<d>1582 Oct 15
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  11.  
  12. //  17th century
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  14. #e <t>wreck<n>The Vasa<d>1628 Aug 10
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  16.  
  17. //  18th century
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  19. #e <t>war<n>War of the Spanish Succession<d>1701<e>1714<c>Europe
  20. #e <t>treaty<n>Treaty of Utrecht<d>1713<c>Utrecht
  21. #e <t>war<n>War of the Austrian Succession<d>1740<e>1748<c>Europe
  22. #e <t>war<n>Seven Years' War<d>1756<e>1763<c>Europe
  23. #e <t>mutiny<n>Mutiny on HMS Bounty<d>1789 Apr 28<c>Polynesia
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  25.  
  26. //  19th century
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  28. #p <nat>Danish<o>philosopher<o>theologian<n>Søren Kierkegaard<b>1813<d>1855
  29. #p <nat>Norwegian<o>author<n>Henrik Ibsen<b>1828<d>1906
  30. #p <nat>Norwegian<o>explorer<n>Fridtjof Nansen<b>1861<d>1930
  31. #p <nat>Indian<o>popular leader<n>Mohandas Gandhi<b>1869 Oct 2<d>1948
  32. #p <nat>Turkish<o>general<o>president<n>Kemal Ataturk<b>1881<d>1938<el>1923<info>also called Mustafa Kemal
  33. #p <nat>Indian<o>p.m.<n>Jawaharlal Nehru<b>1889<d>1964<el>1947
  34. #p <nat>North Vietnamese<o>president<n>Ho Chi Minh<sur>Ho Chi Minh<b>1890<d>1969
  35. #p <nat>Chinese<o>ruler<n>Mao Zedong<b>1893 Dec 26<d>1976<pow>1949
  36.  
  37. #e <t>decree<d>1804<n>Haiti declares independence<c>Hispaniola
  38. #e <t>decree<n>Sweden cedes Finland to Russia<c>Finland<d>1809
  39. #e <t>war<n>War of 1812<d>1812<e>1815<c>North America
  40. #e <t>coin<d>1830<n>"scientist"<info>by William Whewell
  41. #e <t>decree<d>1844<n>Dominican Republic breaks away from Haiti<c>Dominican Republic
  42. #e <t>war<n>Mexican War<d>1846<e>1848<vic>U.S.<c>Mexico
  43. #e <t>war<n>Crimean War<d>1854<e>1856<c>Crimea
  44. #e <t>battle<n>Sevastopol<d>1854<c>Sevastopol
  45. #e <t>war<n>Franco-Prussian War<d>1870<e>1871<c>France
  46. #e <t>war<n>Spanish-American War<d>1898<c>North America
  47. #e <t>war<n>Boer War<d>1899<e>1902<c>South Africa
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