AP Euro Important Dates

By Adam Maryniuk
  • Jan 1, 1453

    Ottoman takeover of Constantinople

  • Period: Sep 27, 1453 to

    Dates

  • Sep 27, 1455

    Gutenberg's printing press

  • Sep 27, 1492

    3Spain3 (granada conquered,columbus,expulsion of jews)

  • Sep 27, 1513

    The Prince

  • Sep 27, 1517

    95 Theses

  • Sep 27, 1543

    Copernicus' On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies

  • Sep 27, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Defeat of Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes passed by Henry IV

  • Elizabeth I of England died

  • Beginning of the 30 Years' War

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

  • Louis XIV revokes 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 (Seven Years' War ends)

  • Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations

  • French 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

  • Beginning of WW1

  • Russian Revolution

  • End of WWI

  • Lenin dies, Stalin rises to power

  • Beginning of WWII

  • End of WWII

  • Treaty of Rome creates EEC

  • Berlin Wall was built

  • 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes PM of England

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

  • Maastricht Treaty takes effect and European Community becomse EU

  • Euro introduced as currency of EU