AP Euro Timeline By harrietm Period: 1378 to 1382 The Ciompi Revolt in Florence 1434 Medici rule in Florence by Cosimo de’ Medici 1454 Treaty of Lodi allies Milan, Naples, and Florence 1492 Columbus lands on Hispaniola 1494 Charles VIII of France invades Italy 1495 League of Venice unites Venice, Milan, Papal States, and Spain against France 1498 Savonarola controls Florence 1499 Louis XII invades Milan 1513 The Holy League defeats the French 1513 Machiavelli writes The Prince 1515 Francis I leads the 3rd french invasion of Italy 1517 Luther posts ninety-five theses against indulgences 1519 Charles I of Spain elected Holy Roman Emperor 1521 Papal bull excommunicates Luther for heresy and Diet of Worms condemns Luther 1521 Cortes conquers Aztecs 1525 Peasants' Revolt in Germany 1527 Sack of Rome by imperial soldiers 1529 Reformation Parliament convenes 1529 Marburg Colloquy btwn Luther and Zwingli 1531 Formation of Protestant Schmalkadic League 1532 Parliament passes the submission of the clergy 1533 Henry VIII weds Anne Boleyn; Convocation invalidates marriage of Catherine of Aragon Period: 1533 to 1584 Reign of Ivan the Terrible 1534 Act of Sucession makes Anne Boleyn’s heirs legitimate, Act of Supremacy “head of church of England” 1536 Calvin arrives in Geneva 1539 Henry VIII imposes the Six Articles 1540 Jesuits recognized by pope 1543 Publication of On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 1546 Luther dies 1547 Armies of Charles V Schmaldike League 1547 Edward VI succeeds to throne (Protestant) 1549 First Act of Uniformity- Book of Common Prayer Period: 1553 to 1558 Mary Tudor restores Catholic Doctrine 1555 Peace of Augsburg recognizes rights of Lutherans Period: 1558 to 1603 Elizabeth I fashions an Anglican reliigous settlement 1559 Francis II succeeds to throne under Catherine de Medici 1563 Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation 1572 Saint Bartholemew’s Day Massacre Period: 1584 to 1613 “Time of Troubles” 1589 Assaianation of Henry II brings Hugenot Henry of Navarre to power 1593 Henry IV embraces Catholicism 1598 Edict of Nantes 1603 James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England 1605 Publication of The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon 1609 Publication of The New Astronomy by Johannes Kepler 1610 Henry IV assainated 1610 Publication of The Starry Messenger by Galileo 1611 King James Bible 1613 Michael Romanov becomes tsar Period: 1618 to 1648 Thirty Years' War 1620 Publication of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon 1625 Charles I ascends English throne 1628 Petition of Right 1629 Charles I dissolves Parliament and embarks on eleven rules of personal rule 1632 Publication of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo 1637 Publication of Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes 1640 Short Parliament, Long Parliament Period: 1640 to 1688 Reign of Fredrick William the Great Elector 1642 English Civil War 1643 Louis XVI ascends the French throne regent Cardinal Mazarin Period: 1643 to 1661 Cardinal Mazarin directs French Government 1648 Peace of Westphalia 1649 Charles I of England executed 1649 Fronde Revolt in France Period: 1649 to 1660 Various Attempts at a Puritan Commonwealth in England Period: 1649 to 1652 Fronde revolt 1651 Publication of Leviathan by Hobbes 1660 Charles II restored to English throne 1661 Louis XVI commences personal rule 1667 War of Devolution Period: 1667 to 1668 War of Deevolution 1670 Secret treaty of Dover between France and Great Britain 1672 Parilament passes the Test Act Period: 1672 to 1679 French War against Netherlands 1678 Popish Plot 1679 End of french war against Netherlands 1683 Turkish siege of Vienna 1685 Louis revokes Edict of Nantes 1685 James II becomes king of England 1687 Publication of Principia Mathematica by Newton 1688 “Glorious Revolution” 1688 War of League of Augsburg Period: 1688 to 1697 War of the League of Augsburg 1689 Peter the Great assumes personal rule 1689 William and Mary ascend the English throne 1689 Publication of Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke 1690 Publication of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 1690 Publication of Treatises of Government by John Locke 1696 Russia captures Azov on the Black Sea 1696 Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious published 1697 European tour of Peter the Great 1698 Peter puts down strelsty revolt 1700 The Great Northern War btwn Russia and Sweden 1701 Outbreak of War of Spanish Sucession 1701 Acts of Settlement for Hanoverian sucession Period: 1702 to 1714 Reign of Queen Anne last of the Stuarts 1703 St. Petersburg founded 1705 End of reign of Leopold I of Austria 1707 Act of Union btwn England + Scotland 1709 Russia defeats Sweden Period: 1711 to 1740 Charles VI rules Austria and secures agreement to Pragmatic Sanction 1713 Treaty of Utrecht ends war of Spanish sucession 1713 Treaty of Utrecht Period: 1713 to 1740 Fredrick William I bulids up miltary power of Prussia 1714 George I becomes King of Britain 1715 Death of Louis XIV 1718 Charles XII of Sweden dies 1718 Aleksei, son of Peter the Great dies suspicously 1719 Wolff's Rational Thoughts published 1720 Regency of Duke of Orleans 1721 Peace of Nystad ends Great Northern War 1721 Peter establishes a synod for Russian church 1721 Robert Walpole dominates British politics 1721 Montesquieu's Persian Letters published Period: 1721 to 1742 Robert Walpole dominates British politics 1722 Peter the Great estabishes table of ranks 1725 Peter the Great dies Period: 1725 to 1727 Reign of Catherine I 1727 George II becomes king of Great Britain Period: 1727 to 1730 Reign of Peter II Period: 1730 to 1741 Reign of Anna of Russia 1733 Voltaire's Letters on the English published 1733 John Kay's flying Shuttle 1738 Voltaire's Elements on the Philosophy of Newton published 1739 War of Jenkins Ear 1740 Maria Theresa succeeds to the Hapsburg throne 1740 Frederick II violates the Pragmatic Sanction by invading Silesia 1740 Outbreak of War of the Austrian Succession Period: 1741 to 1762 Reign of Elizabeth of Russia 1743 Cardinal Fleury serves as Louis Xv’s chief minister 1748 Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws published 1748 Hume's Inquiry into Human Nature published 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle ends War of the Austrian Succession 1750 Rousseau's Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences Voltaire's Letters on the English published 1751 First volume Encyclopedia published, edited by Diderot 1755 Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality published 1756 Convention of Westminster 1756 Outbreak of Seven Years' War 1759 Voltaire's Candide published 1760 George III become King of GB 1762 Rousseau's Social Contract and Emilie published 1762 Legislative Commission summoned in Russia Period: 1762 to 1796 Reign of Catherine the Great 1763 Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance published 1763 Treaty of Paris concludes Seven Years War 1763 Treaty of Hubertsburg 1763 Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War 1764 Voltaire's Philosphcial Dictionary published 1764 Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishment published 1764 Sugar Act 1765 Stamp Act 1765 Spining Jenny 1766 Stamp Act repealed, Declaratory Act 1767 Townshend Acts 1769 War with Turkey and Russia begins 1769 Watts' Steam Engine 1769 Water Frame 1770 Lord North becomes George III's chief minister 1770 Boston Massacre 1772 First Partition of Poland 1773 Boston Tea Party Period: 1773 to 1775 Pugachev's Rebellion 1774 Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji ends war with Turkey 1774 Intolerable Acts 1774 First Continental Congress 1775 Reorganization of local government in Russia 1775 Second Continental Congress 1776 Gibbon's Decline and the Fall of the Roman Empire published 1776 Smith's Wealth of Nations published Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence 1778 France enters war on side of U.S 1778 Yorkshire Association Movement 1779 Lessing's Nathan the Wise published 1781 British forces surrender at Yorktown 1783 Mendelssohn's On Ecclesiastical Power and Judaism published 1783 Russia annexes Crimea 1783 Treaty of Paris concludes American Revolution 1784 Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" published 1785 Catherine the Great issues the Charter of the Nobility 1787 Power Loom Period: 1787 to 1787 Unsuccessful Negotiations with Assembly of Notables in France Aug 8, 1788 Louis XVI summons the Estates General 1789 Great Fear in french Countryside May 5, 1789 The Estates General opens at Versailles Jun 17, 1789 The Third Estate calls itself National Constituent Assembly Jun 20, 1789 Tennis Court Oath Jul 14, 1789 Fall of the Bastille Aug 4, 1789 Nobles in France surrender feudal rights at National Assembly Aug 27, 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Oct 5, 1789 Parisian Women's March on Versailles Jul 12, 1790 Civil Consitution of the Clergy 1792 Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman published 1793 Kant's Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone published 1793 Second Partition of Poland 1795 Third Partition of Poland 1797 Napoleon concludes the Treaty of Campo Formio