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1455 A.D.: Johann Gutenberg invents movable type in the West: By the end of the century, European presses will have published an estimated 30,000 titles. | |||||||||
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1607 A.D.: English colonists found the colony of Virginia. |
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1765 A.D.: British engineer James Watt develops a steam engine that greatly improves on earlier designs, most notably by transferring the engine's up-and-down motion into rotational motion. Watt's engine is considered to have contributed substantially to the Industrial Revolution. |
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1868 A.D.: Japan ends 700 years of feudal rule, beginning its transition into a modern society. |
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2000 A.D. |
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