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Bonus puzzle #6 answers
Starting event: Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women (1868)
The full timeline
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1420Politics
Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed
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1454Birth
Amerigo Vespucci, Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer, is born
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1596Exploration
The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen
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1675War
Battle of Colmar: The French army defeats forces from Austria and Brandenburg
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1783War
American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain
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1857Birth
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement, is born
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1868
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1876
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1893
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1899
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1945Politics
Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control
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1946History
United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany
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1967
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1968
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1970History
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2
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1989History
Two American F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers that appeared to be attempting to engage them over the Gulf of Sidra
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1995
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1997Disaster
Aerosvit Flight 241: A Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into the Pierian Mountains near Thessaloniki Airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, killing all 70 people on board
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2017