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Therefore, these are the random list of numbers that mark the world history during 1500 – 1899:

1. 1517: Martin Luther founded the Protestant religion.
2. 1519: Hernan Cortes, a Spanish explorer, conquered Aztec Empire.
3. 1519 – 22: Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated around the world.
4. 1532 – 33: Francisco Pizarro conquered Inca Empire.
5. 1543: Copernicus founded a theory that the sun is the center of the universe.
6. 1547: Ivan of Russia became the first tsar.
7. 1588: English defeated Spanish Armada when Spanish fleet attempted to invade England.
8. 1618: Thirty Years War between European Protestants and Catholics started.
9. 1620: English Pilgrims settled on the Mayflower land at Plymouth Rock.
10. 1632: Galileo is the first person who used telescope to look into space and confirmed the Copernicus’s theory that the Earth revolves around the sun.
11. 1642: English civil war or Puritan Revolution began in Britain.
12. 1688: Glorious Revolution or Bloodless Revolution took place in England.  James II was dethroned.  William and Mary ruled the country.
13. 1721: Peter the Great ruled Russia.
14. 1788: An angry mobs stormed the Bastille, a prison in Paris.  They set off the French Revolution.
15. 1819: Simon Bolivar liberated New Granada (now known Columbia, Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador) from Spain.
16. 1824: Mexico became independent from Spain.
17. 1848: The year of revolution in Europe.
18. 1845: Famine strike Ireland.
19. 1859: Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species.
20. 1871: German Empire was created by a group of independent states.
21. 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
22. 1884:  Representative of 14 European countries meet at the Berlin West Africa Conference and divided Africa into areas of control.
23. 1892: Parisian Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine.
24. 1893: New Zealand declared that their women have rights to vote.  The Colombian Exposition or Chicago World’s Fair was held.
25. 1894: Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan fought over the control of Korea.
26. 1895: Korea declared its independence.
27. 1898: Spanish – American War began.
28. 1899: During the Boxer Rebellion, the Chinese fought against Christians and other foreign influences in their country.  American, Japanese, and European forces helped to stop fighting by 1901.