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Age of Discovery
Period of European global exploration from the 15th century to the 18th century
Atlantic Revolutions
Revolutionary wave in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Battle of Kunersdorf
1759 battle of the Seven Years' War
Battle of Leuthen
1757 battle of the Seven Years' War
Battle of Quiberon Bay
1759 battle of the Seven Years' War
Battle of Rossbach
Battle on 5 November 1757 during the Third Silesian War
Early modern period
Historical period from c. 1500 to 1800
Golden Age of Piracy
Maritime piracy from the 1650s to the 1730s
Great Divergence
A period in European history during which a very swift and radical socioeconomic shift occurs
Little Ice Age
Climatic cooling after the Medieval Warm Period (16th–19th centuries)
Magellan expedition
16th-century Spanish maritime expedition
Modernity
Historical period and socio-cultural norm or attitude
Renaissance
European cultural period of the 14th to 17th century
Scientific Revolution
Emergence of modern science in the early modern period
Seven Years' War
Global conflict between Great Britain and France from 1756 to 1763
Treaty of Tordesillas
Age of Discovery treaty dividing the unclaimed world between Spanish and Portuguese sovereignty
Treaty of Zaragoza
1529 peace treaty between Spain and Portugal