All Important Dates AP Euro

1348-1351

Black Death

1415-1417

Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism

1453

Fall of Byzantine Empire Muslim forces

1453

End of Hundred Years’ War

1454

Gutenberg’s Printing Press

1455-1485

Wars of the Roses

1492

Columbus “discovers” Americas

1492

Reconquista of Grenada by Ferdinand + Isabella

1508-1512

Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel

1513

Machiavelli’s The Prince

1517

Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses

1519

Cortez conquers Aztecs

1519-1556

Reign of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire

1524-1525

The Peasants’ Revolt in Germany

1534

Act of Supremacy in England (Henry VIII Head of Anglican Church)

1536

John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion

1540

Loyola founds the Jesuits

1543

Copernicus’s On the Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs

1545

Council of Trent begins: The Counter Reformation

1555

Peace of Augsburg (cuius regio, eius religion)

1556-1598

Reign of Philip II of Spain

1558-1603

Reign of Elizabeth I of England

1566-1648

Eighty Year's’ War between Spain and Netherlands

1564-1616

William Shakespeare

1572

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

1585-1589

War of the Three Henrys in France

1588

Spanish Armada destroyed by English

1598

Edict of Nantes ends Religious Wars in France

1600-1602

British and Dutch East India Companies

1603

End of Tudor Dynasty (Elizabeth I), start of Stuart Dynasty (James I)

1609

Bank of Amsterdam established

1618-1648

Thirty Years War

1648

Peace of Westphalia

1642-1646

English Civil War (Roundheads vs Cavaliers)

1643-1715

Reign of Louis XIV of France

1649

Charles I executed, Oliver Cromwell begins rule

1651

Navigation Acts

1651

Hobbes’ Leviathan

1660

Stuart restoration in England through Charles II

1687

Newton’s Principia Mathematica

1689

Locke’s Two Treatises on Government

1688

Glorious Revolution in England - William and Mary of Orange replace James II

1689

English Bill of Rights

1682-1725

Reign of Peter the Great in Russia

1713-1715

Peace of Utrecht

1720

South Seas and Mississippi Bubbles burst

1721-1742

Robert Walpole first Prime Minister of England

1740-1780

Reign of Maria Theresa of Austra (begins with War of Austrian Sucession)

1740-1786

Reign of Frederick the Great of Prussia

1756-1763

Diplomatic Revolution + Seven Years’ War

1762-1796

Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia

1763

Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years’ War

1772

Diderot’s Encyclopedia

1772

First Partition of Poland

1776

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

1789-1799

Era of French Revolution

1799

Napoleon comes into power

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women

1805-1815

Napoleonic Wars

1814-1815

Congress of Vienna

1814-1848

Concert of Europe/Age of Metternich

1830-1848

Reign of Louis Philipe of France (July Monarchy)

1830

Greek + Belgian Independence

1832

Reform Bill in England passed

1848

Communist Manifesto

1848

revolutions break out across Europe

1857

British establish Direct Rule in India

1859

Darwin’s Origin of Species

1861

Serfs freed in Russia under Alexander II

1870-1871

German and Italian Unification

1884-1885

Berlin Conference

1894

Tsar Nicholas II comes to power in Russia (last Romanov)

1900

Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams

1905

Bloody Sunday Revolution in Russia

1905

Einstein’s relativity theory

1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated - WW1 starts

1917

Bolshevik Revolutions in Russia

1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed

1919

Treaty of Versailles signed

1922

Mussolini comes to power in Italy, Russia officially becomes USSR

1923

Adolf Hitler leads Beer Hall Putsch; Occupation of Ruhr

1928

Stalin firmly ruler of USSR, begins 5 year planS

1929

stock market crash- Great Depression begins

1933

Hitler comes to power in Germany

1936

Keynes General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

1938

Munich Conference “peace in our time”

1939

WW2 starts with Germany’s invasion of Poland

1945

World War 2 ends; UN holds first session

1945-1989

Cold War

1946

Decolonization

1948-1948

Winston Churchill Iron Curtain speech, Berlin Airlift, NATO formed

1953

Stalin dies, Krushchev takes over- destalinization

1957

Hungarian revolt against SU, crushed by SU

1957

Rome Treaty signed- European Economic Community created; Sputnik

1961

Berlin Wall built; 5th republic in France under Charles de Gaulle

1962

Vatican II begins (Catholic reform)

1963

Cuban Missile Crisis

1968

“Prague Spring” in Czechoslovakia crushed by SU; worldwide student revolts.

1975

Helsinki Accords - height of detente (easing of Cold War tensions)

1978

Pope John Paul II elected; Margaret Thatcher first female PM of GB