10th Grade World History Timeline By ocohen Period: 1400 to 1600 Renassaince 1481 Spanish Inquisition 1492 Alhambra Decree 1500 Copernicus 1517 Martin Luther's 95 Theses 1541 Calvinism 1545 Council of Trent Period: 1550 to 1555 Civil War in HRE (catholic vs protestant 1555 Religion wars end 1555 Peace of Augsburg 1558 Elizabethan Settlement 1598 Henry IV of France wins religious wars 1598 Catholic vs Protestant in France ends 1598 Edict of Nantes Period: 1603 to 1625 James I of England Period: 1618 to 1648 Thirty years war 1620 Francis Bacon Period: 1625 to 1649 Charles I of England 1637 Descartes Period: 1642 to 1649 English Civil Wars Period: 1642 to 1649 English Civil Wars Period: 1643 to 1715 Louis XIV 1648 Treaty of Westphalia 1648 Chmielnicki Massacres 1648 The Fronde Period: 1649 to 1660 Oliver Cromwell 1651 Hobbes 1660 Restoration of England Period: 1660 to 1685 Charles II of England 1661 Cardinal Mazarin dies 1666 Shabbatai Tzvi Period: 1685 to 1688 James II of England 1687 Newton 1689 Glorious Revolution 1689 Locke 1730 Hasidic movement Period: 1750 to 1850 Industrial Revolution Period: 1750 to 1850 industrial revolution Period: 1760 to 1880 Haskalah 1763 Voltaire 1767 Mendelssohn 1789 French Revolution begins 1789 Storming of Bastille 1790 Paine 1791 Louis XVI tries to flees France to escape constitutional monarchy 1791 National Assembly (about Jews) 1791 Count of Clermont Tonnerre on Jewish Emancipation 1792 Wallstonecraft 1793 Kant Period: 1793 to 1794 Reign of Terror 1794 Condorcet Period: 1795 to 1799 Thermidorian Reaction to Reign of Terror (Directory) Period: 1804 to 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte 1806 Assembly of Jewish notables and sanhedrin 1814 Congress of Vienna 1815 Napoleon returns Period: 1820 to 1839 national revolts 1848 liberal revolutions 1848 Frankfurt Assembly Period: 1861 to 1871 unification of Germany and Italy 1871 German Empire 2nd Reich Period: 1875 to 1914 Imperialism 1896 Herzl (politicial zionism) 1897 First Zionist Congress 1912 Chinese opium wars Period: 1915 to 1917 Armenian genocide 1916 Battle of the Somme (WWI) 1917 Balfour Declaration 1917 America declares war with central allies 1918 Weimar Republic 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918 WWI armistice 1918 Sykes Picot Agreement 1923 Hitler's coup 1929 Great Depression in America Period: 1930 to 1932 Nazi party becomes succesful 1933 Hitler chancellor of Weimar Republic 1933 Nazi rule/3rd Reich 1934 Pres. Hindenberg dies leaving Hitler as dictator 1939 WWII begins 1941 Germany invades Poland 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor 1942 Wansee Conference 1945 Yalta conference 1949 Communist china under Mao