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The Golden Bull of 1356 created the constitutional framework of late-medieval and early-modern Germany, whose consequences have haunted Europe into the 20thC (at least).

Sir Francis Drake, Queen Elizabeth I's admiral, led her navy to victory over the Spanish armada in August 1588. Drake was feared and hated by the Spanish for more than just this singular feat of generaliship, however: he operated a successful strategy of privateering -- essentially, piracy in Her Majesty's service -- that redirected much of the Spanish gold looted from the Americas into English coffers. ("You're trying to rob what I've rightfully stolen.") Read a graduate student's comparison of Drake with a somewhat later British buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan (published in the Greensboro Historical Review, 2010).
Drake also earned fame as a navigator, leading the first English circumnavigation of the globe. (In this achievement, he was of course anticipated by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Read here about the Portuguese head start on exploration voyages)

Artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn give us some of the clearest evidence of living conditions in the early modern era, including evidence of the advent of the so-called Little Ice Age.

So fundamental & far-reaching was the shift in thinking brought about by Copernicus's new heliocentric planetary model that "Copernican Revolution" has become a shorthand term for any profound transformation of worldviews (see e.g. here). For an incisive statement of the significance of this revolution and its generalization into the idea of "paradigm shift," see Thomas S Kuhn's classic The Structure of Scientific Revolution (3rd edn, 1996).

Just as revolutionary, in its own way, was Hugo Grotius's elaboration of the principle of natural law.