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102 A.D. 1452. Final expulsion of the English from France. 1453. Constantinople taken, and the Roman Empire of the East destroyed by the Turkish Sultan Mahomet II. 1455. Commencement of the civil wars in England between the houses of York and Lancaster. 1479. Union of the Christian kingdoms of Spain under Ferdinand and Isabella. 1492. Capture of Grenada by Ferdinand and Isabella, and end of the Moorish dominion in Spain.

1492. Columbus discovers the New World. 1494. Charles VIII. of France invades Italy. 1497. Expedition of Vasco di Gama to the East Indies round the Cape of Good Hope. 1503. Naples conquered from the French by the great Spanish general, Gonsalvo of Cordova. 1508. League of Cambray, by the Pope, the Emperor, and the King of France against Venice. 1509. Albuquerque establishes the empire of the Portuguese in the East Indies. 1516. Death of Ferdinand of Spain; he is