AP Euro Dates By Hansong Huang Period: Sep 25, 1266 to Sep 25, 1337 Giotto-first great painter Period: Sep 25, 1304 to Sep 25, 1374 Petrarch Period: Sep 25, 1350 to Sep 25, 1527 Italian Renaissance Period: Sep 25, 1386 to Sep 25, 1466 Donatello Period: Sep 25, 1394 to Sep 25, 1460 Henry the Navigator Period: Sep 25, 1420 to Sep 25, 1500 Portuguese exploration and expansion Period: Sep 25, 1450 to Sep 25, 1600 Northern Renaissance Period: Sep 25, 1452 to Sep 25, 1519 Da Vinci Sep 25, 1453 Ottoman Takeover of Constantinople Sep 25, 1455 Gutenberg Printing Press Period: Sep 25, 1457 to Sep 25, 1509 Henry VII Period: Sep 25, 1465 to Sep 25, 1519 Tetzel Period: Sep 25, 1469 to Sep 25, 1527 Machiavelli Period: Sep 25, 1475 to Sep 25, 1564 Michelangelo Period: Sep 25, 1483 to Sep 25, 1520 Raphael Period: Sep 25, 1483 to Sep 25, 1546 Luther Period: Sep 25, 1484 to Sep 25, 1531 Zwingli Period: Sep 25, 1491 to Sep 25, 1556 Loyola Sep 25, 1492 Spain conquered Granada, sends Columbus, and expels all Jews Period: Sep 25, 1492 to Sep 25, 1580 Spanish exploration and expansion Sep 25, 1494 France invades Italy Period: Sep 25, 1494 to Sep 25, 1557 Francis I Period: Sep 25, 1494 to Sep 25, 1547 Francis I Period: Sep 25, 1509 to Sep 25, 1510 The School of Athens Period: Sep 25, 1509 to Sep 25, 1564 Calvin Sep 25, 1513 The Prince by Machiavelli Period: Sep 25, 1515 to Sep 25, 1582 Teresa of Avila Sep 25, 1517 Martin Luther's 95 These Period: Sep 25, 1517 to Sep 25, 1648 Reformation Period: Sep 25, 1520 to Sep 25, 1555 Growth of Lutheranism Period: Sep 25, 1534 to Sep 25, 1593 Growth of Calvinism Sep 25, 1543 Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies Period: Sep 25, 1545 to Sep 25, 1648 Catholic Reformation Period: Sep 25, 1545 to Sep 25, 1563 Council of Trent Sep 25, 1555 Peace of Augsburg Sep 26, 1556 Abdication of Charles V Sep 25, 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada Sep 25, 1598 Edict of Nantes passed by Henry IV Sep 25, 1603 Queen Elizabeth I of England died Sep 25, 1618 Beginning of 30 Years' War Sep 25, 1649 Charles I is executed and Cromwell came to power in England Sep 25, 1685 Louis XIV revoked Edict of Nantes Sep 25, 1687 Newton publishes Principia Sep 25, 1688 Glorious Revolution in England Sep 25, 1713 Pragmatic Sanction in Austria, Treaty of Utrecht Sep 25, 1715 Louis XIV of France died Sep 25, 1763 Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War Sep 25, 1776 Adam Smith writes On the Wealth of Nations Sep 25, 1789 Frech Revolution began Sep 25, 1795 Final partition of Poland Sep 25, 1804 Napoleon became emperor Sep 25, 1815 Congress of Vienna Sep 25, 1830 Greek independence, French Revolution of 1830 Sep 25, 1848 Revolutions of 1848, Marx/Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto Sep 25, 1861 Unification of Italy, Tsar Alexander II of Russia freed the serfs Sep 25, 1871 Unification of Germany Sep 25, 1914 WWI began Sep 25, 1917 Russian Revolution Sep 25, 1918 End of WWI Sep 25, 1924 Lenin died, Stalin rose to power Sep 25, 1939 WWII began Sep 25, 1945 End of WWII Sep 25, 1957 Treaty of Rome creates the EEC Sep 25, 1961 Berlin Wall was built Sep 25, 1979 Margaret Thatcher became PM of England Sep 25, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Sep 25, 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR) Sep 25, 1993 Maastricht Treaty takes effect and EEC became EU Sep 25, 2002 Euro introduced as currency in the EU