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Absolutism & Revolution Timeline - Kinsley, Ava, Kenzie

  • Isabella & Ferdinand unify Spain
    1469

    Isabella & Ferdinand unify Spain

    Isabella and Ferdinand unified Spain by their marriage and they became the first monarchs.
  • Charles V reigns as Holy Roman Emperor
    Jun 28, 1519

    Charles V reigns as Holy Roman Emperor

    He was first among Catholic monarchs responsible for spreading the faith to America's fight Protestant Reformation and stopping invasions.
  • Habsburg Empire divided
    1522

    Habsburg Empire divided

    The Habsburg Dynasty was divided into a Spanish and Austrian line, and the latter also acquired Bohemia and Hungary when the Jagiellonian king died in 1526.
  • Henry VIII resigns in England
    1532

    Henry VIII resigns in England

    Henry VIII resigned as chancellor sensing he could no longer continue in his role.
  • Act of Supremacy
    1534

    Act of Supremacy

    English act of Parliament that recognized Henry VIII as the “Supreme Head of the Church of England"
  • Philip II reigns as king of Spain
    1556

    Philip II reigns as king of Spain

    The Spanish Empire under Philip prospered: it attained its greatest power, extent, and influence.
  • Netherlands Revolution
    1556

    Netherlands Revolution

    The Revolt of the Netherlands against Spanish rule, also known as the 80 years war, is traditionally said to have begun in June 1568.
  • Elizabeth I reigns England
    Nov 17, 1558

    Elizabeth I reigns England

    Elizabeth I was one of England's greatest monarchs.
  • Battle of Lepanto
    Oct 7, 1571

    Battle of Lepanto

    The allies virtually annihilated the Turkish forces thereby destroying the myth of Turkish invincibility.
  • Aug 24, 1572

    St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

    The St. Bartholomew's day massacre was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots during the French wars of religion.
  • Spanish Armada defeated in the English Channel

    They were defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.
  • Henry IV reigns as king of France

    Henry IV reigns as king of France

    Henry IV became heir to the French throne through his marriage to Margaret of Valois but was challenged during a time of religious strife.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    King Henry IV signed the Edict of Nantes and it granted the Calvinist Protestants of France substantial rights in the nation.
  • James I reigns England

    James I reigns England

    He helped people in England and in Scotland to study things such as science, literature, and art.
  • Don Quixote is published

    Don Quixote is published

    It is the most comical iconic scene in the novel often the only thing that springs to mind when thinking about it.
  • El Greco

    El Greco

    El Greco died on April 7th, 1614.
  • Defenestration of Prague

    Defenestration of Prague

    Defenestration of Prague incident of Bohemian resistance to Hapsburg authority that preceded the beginning of the 30-year war.
  • Thirty Years War

    More than 8 million casualties resulted from military battles as well as from the famine and disease caused by the conflicts.
  • Charles I reigns as king of Spain

    Charles I reigns as king of Spain

    Charles I ascended the throne and became heir after his brother died.
  • Petition of Right signed

    Petition of Right signed

    The Petition of Right was sent by English parliament to King Charles I to complain about a series of breaches of law he had made.
  • Palace at Versailles built

    Palace at Versailles built

    Construction continued until 1634 and laid the basis of the Palace we know today.
  • The Long Parliament

    It has been so named distinguished it from the short parliament of April-May 1640.
  • English Civil War

    English Civil War

    The war began as a result of a conflict over the power of the monarchy and the rights of parliament.
  • Louis XIV reigns as king of France

    Louis XIV reigns as king of France

    His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest record of any monarch of the sovereign country in history.
  • Peace of Westphalia

    Peace of Westphalia

    It became an entanglement of different conflicts concerning the Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire, religion, the state system of Europe.
  • Charles I executed

    Charles I executed

    Charles I was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland until execution.
  • Navigation Acts passed

    Navigation Acts passed

    The Navigation Acts were acts of parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire.
  • Thomas Hobbes publishes “Leviathan”

    Hobbes wrote the "Leviathon" to argue for a social contract and get rule by an absolute sovereign.
  • Charles II regions England

    Charles II regions England

    Charles II was king of Great Britain who was restored to the throne after years of exile during the Puritan Commonwealth.
  • Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution is also called "The Revolution of 1688" and "The Bloodless Revolution".
  • Huguenots flee France

    Huguenots flee France

    The Huguenots left France settling in Europe, the United States, and Africa where Huguenot craftsmen could find customers at the court of the Czars.
  • Sabastian Bach height of his career

    He was celebrated as the creator of many masterpieces of church and instrumental music.
  • John Locke publishes “Two Treatises of Government”

    John Locke publishes “Two Treatises of Government”

    The treaties were written with this specific aim to defend the glorious revolution.
  • English Bill of Rights signed

    English Bill of Rights signed

    What became known as the English Bill of Rights was an important influence on the later American Constitution.
  • Peter the Great becomes czar of Russia

    Peter the Great becomes czar of Russia

    Having a world jointly with his brother Ivan V from 1682 when Ivan died in 1696, Peter was official declared sovereign over all Russia.
  • Peter the Great captures Azov

    Peter the Great captures Azov

    He launched about 30 ships against the Ottomans in 1696, capturing Azov in July of that year.
  • Philip V reigns as king of Spain

    Philip V reigned from 1700 to August of 1724.
  • Hohenzollern rulers create Prussia

    Hohenzollern rulers create Prussia

    The states which led the unification of Germany and the creation of the German empire.
  • The War of Spanish Succession

    The war of the Spanish succession established the principle that dynastic rights were secondary to maintaining the balance of power between different countries.
  • St. Petersburg is built

    It was built when Peter the Great seized control of the land surrounding the Neva during a protracted war with Sweden.
  • Treaty of Utrecht

    The peace treaty of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed the belligerence in the war of the Spanish succession.
  • Daniel Dafoe publishes “Robinson Crusoe”

    Daniel Dafoe publishes “Robinson Crusoe”

    Daniel Dafoe's famous novel was inspired by the true story of an 18th-century castaway.
  • Robert Walpole becomes Prime Minister of England

    Today viewed as the first British prime minister, Robert Walpole, was described by contemporary opponents as the screen master general adept at pulling all the political strings during that period.
  • Jonathan Swift published “Gulliver’s Travels”

    Jonathan Swift published “Gulliver’s Travels”

    "Gulliver's Travels", the original title, travels into several remote nations of the world.
  • Frederick II reigns Prussia

    Frederick II reigns Prussia

    He led his nations through multiple wars with Austria and its allies.
  • Maria Theresa Rules the Hapsburg Empire

    Maria Theresa Rules the Hapsburg Empire

    She was the only woman ruler in the 1650 history of the Habsburg dynasty.
  • War of Austrian Succession

    The immediate cause of the war was the death in 1740 of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy.
  • Handel publishes “Messiah”

    Handel publishes “Messiah”

    Scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter.
  • Baron de Montesquieu publishes “The Spirit of Laws”

    Baron de Montesquieu publishes “The Spirit of Laws”

    Montesquieu covered many topics including the law, social life, and the study of anthropology.
  • Denis Diderot publishes his “Encyclopedia”

    Denis Diderot publishes his “Encyclopedia”

    It was the first Encyclopedia to include the contributions from many named contributors and the first to describe the mechanical arts.
  • Seven Years War

    French expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought France into armed conflict with the British colonies.
  • Voltaire publishes “Candide”

    "Candide" reflects Voltaire's lifelong aversion to Christian regimes of power and the arrogance of nobility.
  • George III reigns England

    George III reigns England

    George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland until the Union of the two kingdoms.
  • Jean Jacque Rousseau publishes “Social Contract”

    Jean Jacque Rousseau publishes “Social Contract”

    Rousseau published "Social Contract" and theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of problems.
  • Catherine Great reigns Russia

    Catherine Great reigns Russia

    Catherine began a coup and overthrew her husband and was proclaimed sole ruler of Russia.
  • Stamp Act passed

    The Stamp Act imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    A group of 9 British soldiers killed three people in a crowd of three or four hundred. They were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles.
  • Partition of Poland

    Partition of Poland

    Russia, Prussia, and Austria signed a treaty that partitioned Poland.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston Massachusetts.
  • First Continental Congress meets

    First Continental Congress meets

    When the delegates reconvened in May 1775.
  • Battle of Concord

    Battle of Concord

    The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war.
  • Battle of Lexington

    Battle of Lexington

    The British army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans' store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.
  • Adam Smith publishes "Wealth of Nations"

    Adam Smith publishes "Wealth of Nations"

    The central thesis of "The Wealth of Nations" means that our individual need to fulfill self-interest results in societal benefit, in what is known as his "invisible hand".
  • Declaration of Independence signed

    Declaration of Independence signed

    Two important officials passed up the chance to sign and others were added later.
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga

    The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the Revolutionary war. The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale.
  • Articles of Confederation signed

    Articles of Confederation signed

    The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government leaving most of the power with the state governments.
  • Joseph II reigns Austria

    Joseph II reigns Austria

    Joseph II was a holy roman emperor from 1765 to 1790. He was the ruler of the Habsburg island from 1780 to 1790.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    The outcome in Yorktown, Virginia marked the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence.
  • Treaty of Paris

    The American colonies in Great Britain ended American Revolution and formally recognized the U.S. as an independent nation.
  • US Constitution ratified

    The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    The members of the French third estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court of the Versailles palace.
  • Great Fear

    Great Fear

    The Great Fear was a general panic at the start of the French Revolution.
  • Women’s march on Versailles

    Concerned over the high of scarcely of bread, women from the market places of Paris led the march on Versailles.
  • Amadeus Mozart height of his career

    Amadeus Mozart height of his career

    "Cosi fan Tutte" was premiered in 1791 followed by "La Clemenza di Tito" and "The Magic Flute" in 1791.
  • Declaration of Pillnitz

    Declaration of Pillnitz

    The Declaration of Pillnitz urged European powers to unite and to restore the monarchy in France.
  • Declaration of the Rights of Woman

    Declaration of the Rights of Woman

    The Declaration of the Rights of Women was written by a french activist, feminist, and playwright. Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
  • National Assembly Completes a Constitution

    National Assembly Completes a Constitution

    The national assembly became the effective government in constitution drafter that ruled until passing the 1791 Constitution.
  • Radical Phase (French Revolution)

    The Radicals felt that they were purging France of the old order while securing its safety, and creating a new and free Republic.
  • National Convention Formed

    National Convention Formed

    The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy.
  • King Louis XIV Executed

    King Louis XIV Executed

    Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the revolutionary government, Louis XIV was found guilty of treason and condemned to death.
  • Committee of Public Safety created

    Committee of Public Safety created

    During one of the crises of the Revolution when France was beset by foreign and civil war.
  • Reign of Terror (French Revolution)

    A period of sanction violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.
  • Marie Antoinette Executed

    Marie Antoinette Executed

    Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft publishes “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”

    Mary Wollstonecraft publishes “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”

    It was sold as volume one, but Wollstonecraft never wrote any subsequent volumes.
  • Five Man Directory created

    Five Man Directory created

    Group of 5 men that held the executive power in France according to the Constitution of the year III (1795) of the French Revolution.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte becomes 1st Consulate

    Napoleon Bonaparte becomes 1st Consulate

    Napoleon was a part of a group that successfully overthrew the French Directory.
  • Napoleonic Wars

    Napoleonic Wars

    The French Revolution was the main reason for the Napoleonic Wars because of the impact it had on the rest of Europe.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor

    Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor

    Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution.
  • Battle of Trafalgar

    Battle of Trafalgar

    The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement between the British royal navy and the combined fleets of the French the Spanish navies.
  • Battle of Austerlitz

    Battle of Austerlitz

    Napoleon defeated the Russians and Austrians forcing Austria to make peace with France and keeping Prussia temporarily out of the Anit-French Alliance.
  • Napoleon invades Russia

    Napoleon invades Russia

    Napoleon hoped to compel Tzar Alexander I of Russia to seize trading with British merchants through proxies and an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue peace.
  • Battle of Leipzig

    Battle of Leipzig

    Napoleon was defeated resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland.
  • Congress of Vienna

    Congress of Vienna

    Ballhausplatz experienced one of its finest hours when it became the hub of European political activity.
  • Napoleon exiled to Elba

    Napoleon exiled to Elba

    Elba has been for Napoleon a brief exile, although very important.
  • Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

    Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

    However, five years later Napoleon finally won Lowe over and persuaded him to build a new long wood house.
  • Concert of Europe

    Concert of Europe

    The Concert of Europe establish a set of principles or rules and practices that helped to maintain the balance between the major powers after but Napoleonic.
  • Napoleon returns to Paris

    Napoleon returns to Paris

    The day on which Napoleon arrived in Paris after escaping from exile on Elba, and July 8th, 1815 the day of the return of Louis XVIII.
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Just like the European convention on human rights signed in Rome on November 4th, 1950 has the same origins.

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