AP Eur Things

The Renaissance

14th - 16th

The Age of Exploration

16th

The Spanish Golden Age

16th

Commercial Revolution

16th - 17th

The Reformation

16th

French Civil War (War of the Three Henrys)

16th

Dutch Revolt

16th

The era of Religious Wars

16th - 17th

Agricultural Revolution

17th

Old Imperialism

16th - 18th

Invention of the Printing Press

1454

Luther's 95 Theses

1517

Peace of Augsburg

1555

Catholic Council of Trent/Counter Reformation

1545

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

1588

Edict of Nantes

1598

Thirty Years War

1618 - 1648

Peace of Westphalia

1648

Age of Absolutism

17th

Age of Constitutionalism

17th

The Dutch Golden Age

17th

The Scientific Revolution

17th

The Enlightenment

18th

Age of Enlightened Monarchs

18th

The beginning of the 1st Industrial Revolution

18th (~1750)

English Civil War

1642 - 1649

Glorious Revolution in England

1688

Peace of Utrecht

1713

Beginning of the French Revolution

1789

Napoleon comes to power (coup d'etat)

1799

Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo

1815

Age of Ideologies (Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Romanticism)

19th

The beginning of the 2nd Industrial Revolution

19th

New Imperialism

19th

Congress of Vienna

1815

Failed Revolutions in France, Austria, Hungary and Italy

1848

Italian Unification

1870

German Unification

1871

Totalitarianism

20th

World War I

1914 - 1918

Russian Revolution

1917

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Age of Anxiety (Interwar)

1919 - 1939

World War II

1939 - 1945

Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

1945

Economic Miracle, Economic Unity (Western Europe), Modern Welfare State

After 1945

The Cold War

1945 - 1989

French Student Uprising

1968

Revolutions in Eastern European satellite nations to bring down communism

1989

End of the Soviet Union

1991

Maastricht Treaty

1992