AP Euro First Semester Timeline

By Siamak_Erami
  • Period: Nov 21, 1394 to Nov 21, 1460

    Life of Henry "the Navigator"

  • Period: Nov 21, 1400 to

    Re-emergence of serfdom in Eastern Europe

  • Nov 21, 1415

    European exploration and control of overseas territory

  • Period: Nov 20, 1420 to Nov 20, 1485

    Flow of Balkan slaves to Eastern and Western Mediterranean

  • Period: Nov 20, 1422 to Nov 20, 1461

    Charles VII revives France and monarchy

  • Period: Nov 20, 1434 to Nov 20, 1494

    Medici family in power in Florence

  • Nov 21, 1450

    Ottoman Turks Become new problem for explorers

  • Nov 20, 1454

    Ivention of movable type

  • Period: Nov 21, 1462 to Nov 21, 1505

    Reign of Ivan III in Russia

  • Nov 20, 1469

    Marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Argon

  • Nov 20, 1477

    Union of Burgandy and Habsburg dynasties

  • Period: Nov 21, 1492 to Nov 21, 1570

    After the arrival of Columbus population of Hispaniola greatly decline

  • Nov 20, 1494

    Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII of France

  • Period: Nov 20, 1500 to Nov 20, 1527

    High Renaissance (Leonardo, Raphael,Michealangelo)

  • Nov 21, 1503

    Amerigo Vespucci first cumented description of a continent other than Asia

  • Nov 20, 1506

    Pope Julius II begins work on Saint Peter's Basilica

  • Period: Nov 20, 1508 to Nov 20, 1512

    Michealangelo paints ceiling of Sistine Chapel

  • Nov 20, 1517

    Martin Luther "Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences"

  • Nov 21, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan was ordered by Charles V to find direct route to Asia

  • Nov 20, 1521

    Diet of Worms

  • Period: Nov 20, 1521 to Nov 20, 1555

    Charles V's wars against Valois kings

  • Nov 20, 1525

    Peasants Revolt in Germany

  • Period: Nov 21, 1533 to

    Reign of Ivan the Terrible in Russia

  • Period: Nov 21, 1540 to

    Sicentific Revolution

  • Nov 20, 1541

    John Calvin, Genevan Catechism

  • Nov 21, 1543

    Coppernicus,"On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"

  • Period: Nov 20, 1545 to Nov 20, 1563

    Council of Trent

  • Nov 21, 1547

    Oviedos General History of the Indies (eyewitness account of plants, animals and people)

  • Nov 20, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Nov 20, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg offcially recognizes Lutheranism

  • Nov 21, 1559

    Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis ended Habsburg-Valois

  • Period: Nov 21, 1560 to

    Catherine de' Medici wanted civil and religious peace

  • Period: Nov 21, 1564 to

    Life of Galileo

  • Period: Nov 21, 1568 to Nov 21, 1578

    Civil war in the Netherlands

  • Period: Nov 21, 1571 to

    Life of Kepler

  • Aug 24, 1572

    Saint Bartholowmew's Day massacre

  • Nov 21, 1581

    Union of Utrecht declared independence from Spain

  • Queen of Scots beheaded

  • Spanish Armada defeated

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    Henry IV in France

  • Published Edict of Nantes

  • Dutch East India Company founded

  • Protestant Union

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    Thirty Years' War

  • Habsburg crush protestantism in Bohemia

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    Growth of absolutism in Austria and Prussia

  • Birth of French Academy

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    Reign of Fredrick William in Prussia

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    Growth of Atlantic economy

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    aggricultural improvement and revolution

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    British Navigation Acts

  • Nikon reforms russian Orthodox Church

  • Restoration of English monarchy under Charles II

  • Royal Society of London founded

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    Jean_Baptiste Colbert applies mercantilism to France

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    Cossack revolt led by Razin

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    Construction of Baroque palaces

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    Habsburg defend Vienna and win war with Ottaman Turks

  • Edict of Nantes revoked

  • Newton, "Principia and law of universal gravitation"

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    Glorious Revolution in England

  • Locke essay concerning human understanding

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    The Enlightenment

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    Life of Voltaire

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    Growth of book publishing

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    Height of Atlantic slave trade

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    Expansion of rural industry in Europe

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    War of the Spanish Succession

  • Peter the Great found St. Petersburg

  • Peace of Utrecht

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    Growth of the Prussian military

  • Death of Louis XIV

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    Rococo style in art and decoration

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    Growth of European population

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    Government-run foundling homes established

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    Bubonic plague

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    Salons led by elite women

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    Reign of Maria Theresa in Austria

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    Reign of Fredrick the Great in Prussia

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    Enlightened absolutist

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    Rise of economic liberalism

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    Illegitamicy explosion

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    Diderot and d'alembert "Encyclopedia"

  • Madame Ducoudrai, "manual on the art of childbirth"

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    Height of parlimentary enclosure in England

  • Rousseau "The social contract"

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    American Revolution

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    French Revolution

  • Jenner performs first small pox vacination

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    Napoleonic Era