Ap Euro

By unlikelyfinn
  • 1440

    Gutenberg Printing Press

    The first mechanized printing press that allowed for faster production of books and therefore greater access
  • Period: 1455 to 1487

    War of Roses

    Civil wars fought over the English throne fought between Plantagenets Lancaster, Tudor, against York
  • 1478

    Spanish Inquisition

    Established by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castille, built to maintain catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms
  • 1487

    Kramer "Malleus Malificarm"

    "Hammer of Witches" best known treatise about witchcraft. Its against witchcraft and calls it a crime and speaks of ways to torture suspected witches to gain confession.
  • 1492

    Columbus sails

    Columbus 'discovers' the 'new world', an event widely frowned upon today
  • Period: 1501 to 1504

    Michelangelo's "David"

    Sculpture
  • Period: 1503 to 1519

    Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"

    Da Vinki
  • 1509

    Erasmus "In Praise of Folly"

    Essay written in Latin that is a satirical attack on all aspects of humanity, including corruptions in the church
  • 1516

    Thomas More "Utopia"

    Socio-political satire written in Latin, reminiscent of life in monasteries
  • 1519

    Charles V HRE Emporer

  • 1521

    Martin Luther King excommunicated

  • Period: 1524 to 1525

    German Peasant Revolt

  • 1540

    Ignatius founds Jesuits

  • 1553

    Mary I made Queen of England

  • Period: 1562 to

    French Wars of Religion

  • Period: 1568 to

    Dutch Revolt

  • 1572

    St Bartholomew's Day Massacre

  • Spanish Armada

  • Defenestration of Prague

  • Galileo on trial

  • Period: to

    Bernini's "Ecstasy of St Theresa"

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Execution of Charles I

  • Hobbs "Leviathan" published

  • Vermeer "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

  • Dutch Republic Golden Age ends

  • Period: to

    Glorious Revolution

  • Peace of Utrecht

  • John Kay's Flying Shuttle

  • War of Austrian Succession begins

  • European Witch hunts end

  • Period: to

    Diderot's Encyclopedia

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Period: to

    Pugachev's Rebellion

  • Luddites established

    weavers and textile workers who objected to mechanization of jobs, names after Ned Ludd who was rumored to have destroyed a textile apparatus

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication..."

  • King Louis XVI executed

  • Robespierre exectued

  • Period: to

    Congress of Vienna

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Mary Shelley "Frankenstein"

  • Greek Revolt

  • George Stephenson's Rocket

    Most advanced steam powered locomotor of its time

  • Delacroix "Liberty leading the People"

  • Period: to

    November Uprising (Polish Revolt)

  • British medical Society established

  • Slavery abolished in British Empire

  • Period: to

    Opium Wars

  • Period: to

    Irish Potato Famine

  • Louis Napoleon elected

  • Marx/Engels "Communist Manifesto" published

  • Period: to

    Crimean War

  • Period: to

    Monet Paints

  • Darwin prints "Origin of Species"

  • Louis Pasteur Germ Theory published

  • Bismarck's Iron and Blood speech

  • Period: to

    Van Gogh Paints

  • Period: to

    Berlin Conference

  • Bram Stoker "Dracula"

    vampire
    the gothic ever
    gay

  • Marie Curie begins experimenting with Radioactivity

  • Bloody Sunday

    St Petersburg, Russia. Unarmed demonstrators fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard

  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

  • Battle of the Somme

  • Battle of Vimy Ridge

  • Treaty of Versaille

  • Period: to

    Paris Peace Conference

  • Period: to

    League of Nations

  • Hitler's "Mein Kampf"

  • Charlie Chaplin (The Little Dictator)

  • Period: to

    The Holocaust

  • Period: to

    Operation Barbarossa

  • D-Day / Normandy Landings

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

  • Suez Crisis

    British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Period: to

    German Reunification

  • Brexit

    Exit of Britain from the EU