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

    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

    Reformation

  • Period: Sep 25, 1520 to Sep 25, 1555

    Growth of Lutheranism

  • Period: Sep 25, 1534 to

    Growth of Calvinism

  • Sep 25, 1543

    Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies

  • Period: Sep 25, 1545 to

    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

  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes passed by Henry IV

  • Queen Elizabeth I of England died

  • Beginning of 30 Years' War

  • Charles I is executed and Cromwell came to power in England

  • Louis XIV revoked Edict of Nantes

  • Newton publishes Principia

  • Glorious Revolution in England

  • Pragmatic Sanction in Austria, Treaty of Utrecht

  • Louis XIV of France died

  • Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War

  • Adam Smith writes On the Wealth of Nations

  • Frech Revolution began

  • Final partition of Poland

  • Napoleon became emperor

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Greek independence, French Revolution of 1830

  • Revolutions of 1848, Marx/Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto

  • Unification of Italy, Tsar Alexander II of Russia freed the serfs

  • Unification of Germany

  • WWI began

  • Russian Revolution

  • End of WWI

  • Lenin died, Stalin rose to power

  • WWII began

  • End of WWII

  • Treaty of Rome creates the EEC

  • Berlin Wall was built

  • Margaret Thatcher became PM of England

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR)

  • Maastricht Treaty takes effect and EEC became EU

  • Euro introduced as currency in the EU