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DATE
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TRAILBLAZER TITLE
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CHRISTIAN HERO
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WORLD EVENTS
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| 1500 |
1509 Slavery begins
in the Americas |
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| 1520 |
Spy for the Night
Riders (1520s) |
Martin Luther |
1534 Pope Paul III begins Counter Reformation |
| 1540 | The Betrayer's Fortune (1543) | Menno Simons | 1540 Henry VIII seizes Catholic monasteries |
| 1560 | 1558-1603
Reign of Elizabeth I 1562 French massacre thousands of Protestants |
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| 1580 | 1588 Severe
famine in China 1588 English defeat the Spanish armada 1596 First flush toilet |
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| 1600 |
1607 Jamestown Colony
established |
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| 1620 | The Mayflower Secret (1620-23) | William Bradford | 1636 Harvard University founded |
| 1640 | 1642 Rembrandt
paints The Night Watch 1644 John Milton argues for freedom of the press 1650 Cheyenne Nation moves west |
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| 1660 | Traitor in the Tower (1660) | John Bunyan | 1667 John Milton writes Paradise Lost |
| 1680 | 1687 Isaac Newton discovers the "Law of Gravity" | ||
| 1700 | Hostage on the Nighthawk (1699-1700) | William Penn | 1709 Christofori invents the piano |
| 1720 | 1725 Vivaldi
Composes "Four Seasons" 1734-35 Jonathan Edwards stirs Great Awakening |
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| 1740 | The Chimney Sweep's Ransom (1742) | John Wesley | 1747-52
Ben Franklin's kite experiment 1750-1850 Industrial Revolution 1756-63 Seven Year's War |
| 1760 |
The Warrior's Challenge(1772) |
David Zeisberger
(Moravians) John Newton |
1768 Captain
Cook's first voyage 1769 James Watt's steam engine 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence |
| 1780 | 1783 Hot-air
balloon 1789-95 French Revolution 1796 Smallpox vaccine |
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| 1800 | Abandoned
on the Wild Frontier (1812-25) The Thieves of Tyburne Square (1817-18) |
Peter Cartwright Elizabeth Fry |
1807 First
successful steamboat 1815 Napoleon's Battle of Waterloo |
| 1820 | Exiled
to the Red River (1822-25) Imprisoned in the Golden City (1824) |
Chief Spokane
Garry Adoniram & Ann Judson |
1826 First
photograph 1830 First railroad 1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire |
| 1840 |
Attack in the Rye
Grass (1843-47) |
Marcus
& Narcissa Whitman Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman David Livingstone Hudson Taylor Charles Loring Brace |
1844 Morse's
telegraph 1848 Marx's Communist Manifesto 1849 California gold rush 1854 "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Tennyson |
| 1860 | Caught
in the Rebel Camp (1862-63) Sinking the Dayspring (1865-68) The Bandit of Ashley Downs (1870s) |
Frederick
Douglass John G. Paton George Müller |
1861-65 U.S. Civil
War |
| 1880 | Kidnapped
by River Rats (1880s) Trial by Poison (1883-92) Quest for the Lost Prince (1892-03) Danger on the Flying Trapeze (1893) The Gold Miners' Rescue (1897-98) |
William
& Catherine Booth Mary Slessor Samuel Morris Dwight L. Moody Sheldon Jackson |
1882 Edison
establishes electric lights in New York City 1897-1900 Alaska gold rush |
| 1900 | The Forty
-Acre Swindle (1898-1904) Ambushed in Jaguar Swamp (1899-1900) Drawn by a China Moon (1893-1901) Mask of the Wolf Boy (1900) Defeat of the Ghost Riders (1904-20) Journey to the End of the Earth (1906) The Hidden Jewel (1909) |
George
Washington Carver Barbrooke Grubb Lottie Moon Jonathan & Rosalind Goforth Mary McLeod Bethune William Seymour Amy Carmichael |
1900 Chinese
Boxer Rebellion 1901 First radio communication 1903 Wright brothers' plane 1914-18 World War I |
| 1920 | Flight
of the Fugitives (1934-40) Risking the Forbidden Game (1925-28) |
Gladys
Aylward Maude Cary |
1920 Women get "the
vote" |
| 1940 | Race for
the Record (1942-50) The Fate of the Yellow Woodbee (1956) |
Joy Ridderhof Nate Saint |
1939-45
World War II 1941 Japanese attack Perl Harbor 1945 Atomic bomb 1955 Rock 'n' Roll |
| 1960 | Assassins in the Cathedral (1976-79) | Festo Kivengere | 1961 Berlin
Wall erected 1964-75 Vietnam War 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated 1969 First manned moon landing, U.S.A. 1974 Watergate scandal |
| 1980 | Blinded by the Shining Path (1992) | Rómulo Sauñe | 1989 Berlin
Wall demolished 1991 Soviet Union collapses 1994 Nelson Mandela elected in South Africa |
| 2000 | 2001 Terrorists attack World Trade Center/Pentagon |