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Founding of Jamestown

1607-05-14

The Third Expansion: the master plan for Amsterdam

1613

Great Fire and reconstruction after the Polish Intervention

1612-11-04

The Protestant Reformation

1517-10-31

Jesuit Missions Spread Catholicism to Asia and the Americas

mid-1500s to 1700s

Sikhism Founded by Guru Nanak's Successors Institutionalized

1604-1699

Age of Sail Global Shipping Networks

around 1650

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution

ca. 1450 – 1700

Discovery of lunar mountains and the moons of Jupiter

1610

Invention of the Telescope

1608

Capoeira develops among enslaved Africans in Brazil

around the 16th to 19th century

The survival of the birds

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