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1260 ain jalut
mamluk egyptians turn back the mongol horde. hulagu kahn dies shortly thereafter.

1521 mexico
cortez defeats the aztec empire and lays open the whole new world.

1529 siege of vienna
high water mark f the turks in europe.

1571 lepanto
the holy league defeats the turkish fleet off greece. another reason we don't all pray to mecca.

1759 quebec
wolfe drives the french out of north america. and sets up the revolution.

1916 the somme
european suicide.

1940-45 the carpet bombing of europe
flattened hitler's war industry, and ground the luftwaffe to dust.

1945 hiroshima
changed the world.