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John Calvin

1509 CE – 1564 CE · 55 years

The life of the man who turned a small Swiss city into the capital of Protestant Christianity — theologian, exile, and architect of a movement that reshaped the Western world.

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Kalyan Mosque

1514 CE – still standing

Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

Conflict

Russo–Kazan Wars

1445 CE – 1556 CE

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Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

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1530 CE – 1721 CE

Conflict

Shaybanid Conquest of Transoxiana

1500 CE – 1510 CE

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Niccolò Machiavelli

1469 CE – 1527 CE

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