-
Isabella and Ferdinand unified Spain by their marriage and they became the first monarchs. -
He was first among Catholic monarchs responsible for spreading the faith to America's fight Protestant Reformation and stopping invasions. -
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 resigned as chancellor sensing he could no longer continue in his role. -
English act of Parliament that recognized Henry VIII as the “Supreme Head of the Church of England" -
The Spanish Empire under Philip prospered: it attained its greatest power, extent, and influence. -
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 was one of England's greatest monarchs. -
The allies virtually annihilated the Turkish forces thereby destroying the myth of Turkish invincibility. -
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.
-
They were defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.
-
Henry IV became heir to the French throne through his marriage to Margaret of Valois but was challenged during a time of religious strife. -
King Henry IV signed the Edict of Nantes and it granted the Calvinist Protestants of France substantial rights in the nation. -
He helped people in England and in Scotland to study things such as science, literature, and art. -
It is the most comical iconic scene in the novel often the only thing that springs to mind when thinking about it. -
El Greco died on April 7th, 1614. -
Defenestration of Prague incident of Bohemian resistance to Hapsburg authority that preceded the beginning of the 30-year war. -
More than 8 million casualties resulted from military battles as well as from the famine and disease caused by the conflicts.
-
Charles I ascended the throne and became heir after his brother died. -
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. -
Construction continued until 1634 and laid the basis of the Palace we know today. -
It has been so named distinguished it from the short parliament of April-May 1640.
-
The war began as a result of a conflict over the power of the monarchy and the rights of parliament. -
His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest record of any monarch of the sovereign country in history. -
It became an entanglement of different conflicts concerning the Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire, religion, the state system of Europe. -
Charles I was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland until execution. -
The Navigation Acts were acts of parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire. -
Hobbes wrote the "Leviathon" to argue for a social contract and get rule by an absolute sovereign.
-
Charles II was king of Great Britain who was restored to the throne after years of exile during the Puritan Commonwealth. -
Glorious Revolution is also called "The Revolution of 1688" and "The Bloodless Revolution". -
The Huguenots left France settling in Europe, the United States, and Africa where Huguenot craftsmen could find customers at the court of the Czars. -
He was celebrated as the creator of many masterpieces of church and instrumental music.
-
The treaties were written with this specific aim to defend the glorious revolution. -
What became known as the English Bill of Rights was an important influence on the later American Constitution. -
Having a world jointly with his brother Ivan V from 1682 when Ivan died in 1696, Peter was official declared sovereign over all Russia. -
He launched about 30 ships against the Ottomans in 1696, capturing Azov in July of that year. -
Philip V reigned from 1700 to August of 1724.
-
The states which led the unification of Germany and the creation of the German empire. -
The war of the Spanish succession established the principle that dynastic rights were secondary to maintaining the balance of power between different countries.
-
It was built when Peter the Great seized control of the land surrounding the Neva during a protracted war with Sweden.
-
The peace treaty of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed the belligerence in the war of the Spanish succession.
-
Daniel Dafoe's famous novel was inspired by the true story of an 18th-century castaway. -
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.
-
"Gulliver's Travels", the original title, travels into several remote nations of the world. -
He led his nations through multiple wars with Austria and its allies. -
She was the only woman ruler in the 1650 history of the Habsburg dynasty. -
The immediate cause of the war was the death in 1740 of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy.
-
Scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter. -
Montesquieu covered many topics including the law, social life, and the study of anthropology. -
It was the first Encyclopedia to include the contributions from many named contributors and the first to describe the mechanical arts. -
French expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought France into armed conflict with the British colonies.
-
"Candide" reflects Voltaire's lifelong aversion to Christian regimes of power and the arrogance of nobility.
-
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland until the Union of the two kingdoms. -
Rousseau published "Social Contract" and theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of problems. -
Catherine began a coup and overthrew her husband and was proclaimed sole ruler of Russia. -
The Stamp Act imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
-
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. -
Russia, Prussia, and Austria signed a treaty that partitioned Poland. -
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston Massachusetts. -
When the delegates reconvened in May 1775. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war. -
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. -
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". -
Two important officials passed up the chance to sign and others were added later. -
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the Revolutionary war. The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale. -
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 was a holy roman emperor from 1765 to 1790. He was the ruler of the Habsburg island from 1780 to 1790. -
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. -
The American colonies in Great Britain ended American Revolution and formally recognized the U.S. as an independent nation.
-
The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America.
-
Revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison.
-
The members of the French third estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court of the Versailles palace.
-
The Great Fear was a general panic at the start of the French Revolution. -
Concerned over the high of scarcely of bread, women from the market places of Paris led the march on Versailles.
-
"Cosi fan Tutte" was premiered in 1791 followed by "La Clemenza di Tito" and "The Magic Flute" in 1791. -
The Declaration of Pillnitz urged European powers to unite and to restore the monarchy in France. -
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. -
The national assembly became the effective government in constitution drafter that ruled until passing the 1791 Constitution. -
The Radicals felt that they were purging France of the old order while securing its safety, and creating a new and free Republic.
-
The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy. -
Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the revolutionary government, Louis XIV was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. -
During one of the crises of the Revolution when France was beset by foreign and civil war. -
A period of sanction violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.
-
Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. -
It was sold as volume one, but Wollstonecraft never wrote any subsequent volumes. -
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 was a part of a group that successfully overthrew the French Directory. -
The French Revolution was the main reason for the Napoleonic Wars because of the impact it had on the rest of Europe. -
Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution. -
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement between the British royal navy and the combined fleets of the French the Spanish navies. -
Napoleon defeated the Russians and Austrians forcing Austria to make peace with France and keeping Prussia temporarily out of the Anit-French Alliance. -
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. -
Napoleon was defeated resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland. -
Ballhausplatz experienced one of its finest hours when it became the hub of European political activity. -
Elba has been for Napoleon a brief exile, although very important. -
However, five years later Napoleon finally won Lowe over and persuaded him to build a new long wood house. -
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. -
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. -
Just like the European convention on human rights signed in Rome on November 4th, 1950 has the same origins.
Want to make a timeline like this?
Use Timetoast to turn dates, events, milestones, and phases into a clear visual timeline you can build and share. Timetoast is a timeline maker for work, school, research, and stories.