AP EURO By sam.bass.18 Dec 24, 1419 Prince Henry forms navigators' school Dec 24, 1450 renaissance Begins Period: Dec 24, 1450 to Dec 25, 1485 war of the Roses in England Period: Dec 24, 1487 to Dec 25, 1488 Dias' voyage to cape of Good Hope Jan 1, 1492 Unification of Spain completed Dec 24, 1492 Columbus lands in the Western Hemisphere Dec 24, 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas Dec 24, 1497 Cabot sails to North America Period: Dec 24, 1497 to Dec 25, 1498 De Gama's first voyage to India Dec 24, 1500 Cabral claims Brazil Dec 24, 1502 Vespucci produces map of new world Period: Dec 24, 1519 to Dec 25, 1522 Magellan's expedition; cortes captures Mexico Dec 24, 1522 Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation Dec 24, 1524 Verrazano sails to North America Dec 24, 1525 First German religious wars Dec 24, 1529 Marburg colloquy Period: Dec 24, 1530 to Dec 25, 1535 pizarro captures Peru Period: Dec 24, 1533 to Dec 25, 1584 Ivan the Terrible rules Russia Dec 24, 1534 Act of Supremacy creates the Anglican Church Dec 24, 1534 Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River Dec 24, 1536 Calvin begins Geneva ministry Dec 24, 1540 Loyola forms the Society of Jesus Dec 24, 1540 Scientific revolution begins Dec 24, 1543 Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies; Vesalius, On Fabric of the Human Body Period: Dec 24, 1545 to Dec 25, 1563 Council of Trent reforms Roman Catholic Church Dec 24, 1555 Peace of Augsburg Dec 24, 1559 elizabethan settlement Period: Dec 24, 1562 to Dec 25, 1598 French Wars of Religion Period: Dec 24, 1581 to Dec 25, 1672 golden age of the dutch republic Dec 24, 1598 Edict of Nantes Dec 24, 1603 James I brings Stuart rule to England Dec 24, 1607 Jamestown established Dec 24, 1608 Quebec established Dec 24, 1610 Galileo, The Starry Messenger Period: Dec 24, 1610 to Dec 25, 1643 Reign of Louis XIII in France Dec 24, 1613 Michael Romanov re-established czarist rule in russia Period: Dec 24, 1619 to Dec 25, 1648 thirty Years war Dec 24, 1620 Bacon develops inductive reasoning Dec 24, 1628 Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood Dec 24, 1637 Descartes develops deductive reasoning Dec 24, 1640 Hohenzollerns come to power in Prussia Period: Dec 24, 1642 to Dec 25, 1648 English Civil War Period: Dec 24, 1643 to Dec 25, 1715 reign of Louis XIV in France Period: Dec 24, 1649 to Dec 25, 1658 Cromwell rules England Dec 24, 1660 restoration Dec 24, 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau Dec 24, 1687 Newton, Principia Dec 24, 1688 Glorious revolution Period: Dec 24, 1689 to Dec 25, 1725 Peter the great rules Russia Period: Dec 24, 1702 to Dec 25, 1713 War of Spanish succession Period: Dec 24, 1713 to Dec 25, 1740 Frederick William I of Prussia Dec 24, 1740 Enlightenment begins Period: Dec 24, 1740 to Dec 25, 1786 Frederick the Great of Prussia Period: Dec 24, 1740 to Dec 25, 1780 Maria Theresa of Austria Period: Dec 24, 1740 to Dec 25, 1748 War of Austrian succession Dec 24, 1749 Montesquieu's Spirit of the Law Period: Dec 24, 1754 to Dec 25, 1763 Diderot and Encyclopedia Period: Dec 24, 1756 to Dec 25, 1763 Seven Years War Dec 24, 1758 flying shuttle Dec 24, 1759 Voltaire's candide Dec 24, 1761 Rousseau's The Social Contract and Emile Period: Dec 24, 1762 to Dec 25, 1796 Catherine the Great of Russia Dec 24, 1763 Treaty of Paris 1763- ended 7 years war Dec 24, 1768 Water Frame Dec 24, 1772 First partition of Poland begins Dec 24, 1776 Declaration of independence Period: Dec 24, 1776 to Dec 25, 1783 American Revolution Dec 24, 1779 Smith's The Wealth of Nations Period: Dec 24, 1780 to Dec 25, 1790 Joseph II of Austria Dec 24, 1782 James Watt's perfected steam engine Dec 24, 1783 Treaty of Paris of 1783 - ends American Revolution Dec 24, 1787 power loom Dec 24, 1787 power loom Period: Dec 24, 1789 to Dec 25, 1799 French Revolution Period: Dec 24, 1799 to Dec 25, 1814 Rule of Napoleon Dec 24, 1804 first steam powered locomotive Dec 24, 1814 Napoleon sent to Elba Period: Dec 24, 1814 to Dec 25, 1815 congress of Vienna Dec 24, 1815 Napoleon returns/defeated at waterloo Dec 24, 1815 First corn Laws passed in GB Dec 24, 1817 Revolutions in central and South america Dec 24, 1819 peterloo massacre Period: Dec 24, 1821 to Dec 25, 1827 Greek revolt Dec 24, 1823 monroe doctrine Dec 24, 1825 european continental countries begin Industrializing, Decembrist revolt in Russia Dec 24, 1830 July revolution in France Period: Dec 24, 1830 to Dec 25, 1848 Louis Philippe rules Frace Dec 24, 1832 Reform Act passed in GB Dec 24, 1834 Grand National Consolidated Trades Union formed Period: Dec 24, 1837 to Dec 25, 1901 victorian age in GB Dec 24, 1838 Chartist movement Dec 24, 1841 Great potato famine in Ireland Dec 24, 1848 revolutions of 1848 across Europe, Louis Napoleon elected president of 2nd French Republic Dec 24, 1848 communist Manifesto published Period: Dec 24, 1848 to Dec 25, 1849 Frankfurt assembly in Germany Dec 24, 1852 Emperor Napoleon III proclaims Second French empire Period: Dec 24, 1854 to Dec 25, 1856 crimean war Dec 24, 1858 Pasteur develops germ theory Period: Dec 24, 1858 to Dec 25, 1870 unification of Italy Dec 24, 1859 Origin of the species published Dec 24, 1861 Emancipation Proclamation in US, emancipation of serfs in Russia Period: Dec 24, 1861 to Dec 25, 1865 US Civil War Period: Dec 24, 1861 to Dec 25, 1865 US civil War Dec 24, 1864 Napoleon III installs Maximllian as emperor of Mexico Period: Dec 24, 1864 to Dec 25, 1871 Unification of Germany Dec 24, 1867 Maximilian removed as ruler of Mexico, Ausgleich in Austria creates dual monarchy, dominion of Canada created Dec 24, 1871 Descent of Man, Napoleon III toppled from power Dec 24, 1875 Third French Republic proclaimed Dec 24, 1878 congress of Berlin Dec 24, 1879 triple alliance formed Dec 24, 1884 reform Act of 1884 in GB Dec 24, 1888 Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser Dec 24, 1890 Birth of nuclear physics; Start of American Progressive Era Period: Dec 24, 1895 to Dec 25, 1899 Dreyfus Affair Dec 24, 1900 Freud's interpretation of Dreams; Birth of modern Volkism Dec 24, 1904 Russo-Japanese War Dec 24, 1905 Russian Revolution of 1905 Dec 24, 1907 Triple Entente formed Dec 24, 1914 archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated; World War I begins Dec 24, 1915 Italy enters the war Dec 24, 1917 US enters the War; Russia Bolshevik revolution Dec 24, 1918 Treaty of Brest- Litovsk; Americans enter the fighting, armistice declared Dec 24, 1919 Versailles treaty Dec 24, 1926 Mussolini establishes Fascism in Italy Dec 24, 1929 Stock Market crashes in US Period: Dec 24, 1939 to Dec 25, 1945 WWII Period: Dec 24, 1947 to Dec 25, 1991 Cold War Period: Dec 24, 1950 to Dec 25, 1963 Korean War Period: Dec 24, 1954 to Dec 25, 1975 Second vietnam war