Absolutism/Revolutions

  • Period: Dec 11, 1474 to Jan 23, 1516

    King Ferdinand and Isabella

    Spanish ruler of southern Italy
  • Period: Apr 22, 1509 to Jan 28, 1547

    King Henry VIII

    Henry VIII's is usually remembered for the King's six wives and his legendary appetite.he ruled england.
  • Period: May 21, 1527 to

    Philip II

    Philip II, also known as Philip the Prudent, was King of Spain
  • Period: Aug 25, 1530 to

    Ivan the Terrible

    Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible was the grand prince of Moscow he ruled over russia.
  • Period: Nov 7, 1558 to

    Elizabeth I

    Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland
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    Thirty Years War

    The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648.
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    English Civil War

    The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists, mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. It was part of the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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    Peter the great

    Peter I, most commonly known as Peter the Great, was a monarch of Russia who modernised it and made it a European power.
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    The Glorious Revolution

    The Glorious Revolution, is the term used for the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688 and his replacement by his daughter Mary II and her husband William III of Orange, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.
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    War of the Spanish Succession

    The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1714
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    Seven Years War

    The Seven Years' War was a global conflict involving most of the major European powers and many smaller European states, as well as nations in Asia and the Americas
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    King Louis XVI

    Louis XVI was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
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    King Louis XIV

    Ruled over france
  • May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General

    The opening of the Estates General, on 5 May 1789 in Versailles, also marked the start of the French Revolution.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    The Storming of the Bastille happened in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents stormed and seized control of the medieval armoury, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution
  • Women's March on Versailles

    The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
  • Execution of King Louis XVI

    The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place publicly on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.
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    Reign of Terror

    The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.
  • Maximillian Robespierre's execution

    On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution (now the Place de la Concorde), where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd
  • Napoleon Crowns himself emperor

    On the 2nd of December 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff.
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    Peninsular War

    The Peninsular War was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
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    french invasion of russia

    napoleon and his troops invade russia. The campaign failed however, because napoleon and his men ran out of food and could not survive the harsh weather conditions.
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    French Invasion of Russa

    The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, the Army of Twenty nations, and the Patriotic War of 1812 was launched by Napoleon Bonaparte to force the Russian Empire back into the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.
  • Napoleon is exiled to Elb

    On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. The future emperor was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769.
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    Nicholas II (Romanov

    Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia,
  • Napoleon dies

    stomach ulcer