AP Euro Timeline

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  • Gutenberg invents the printing press
    1450

    Gutenberg invents the printing press

    The printing press was invented and I was used to boost the spread of paper distribution leading to more literate people
  • Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire
    1453

    Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire

    Constantinople being the capital of Turkey at the time
  • Period: 1485 to

    Reign of the Tudor Dynasty

    English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England
  • Columbus Voyage to the Americas
    1492

    Columbus Voyage to the Americas

  • Completion of the Reconquista in Spain (fall of Granada)
    1492

    Completion of the Reconquista in Spain (fall of Granada)

    was a series of military and cultural campaigns by European Christian kingdoms against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus
  • Alhambra Decree
    Mar 31, 1492

    Alhambra Decree

    was an edict issued on by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions
  • Michelangelo completes the painting of the Sistine Chapel
    1512

    Michelangelo completes the painting of the Sistine Chapel

    Famous Painter
  • Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses
    1517

    Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses

    Launches the Protestant Reformation
  • Luther’s attendance at the Diet of Worms
    1521

    Luther’s attendance at the Diet of Worms

  • Machiavelli’s The Prince is published
    1532

    Machiavelli’s The Prince is published

  • Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII
    1534

    Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII

    created the Anglican Church
  • Copernicus (Polish astronomer) publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    1543

    Copernicus (Polish astronomer) publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent (Catholic Reformation)

  • Peace of Augsburg
    1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    treaty signed in 1555 that ended the religious conflict between Catholics and Lutherans within the Holy Roman Empire
  • St. Bartholomew's Massacre
    1572

    St. Bartholomew's Massacre

    targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots
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    War of the Three Henrys

    eighth conflict in the series of civil wars in France known as the French Wars of Religion. It was a three way war fought between the King Henry III of France supported by the royalists and the politiques King Henry of Navarre later Henry IV of France heir presumptive to the French throne and leader of the Huguenots supported by Elizabeth I of England and the German protestant princes and Henry of Lorraine Duke of Guise leader of the Catholic League funded and supported by Philip II of Spain.
  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

    Defeat of the Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    decree signed in 1598 by King Henry IV of France that granted substantial rights to the Huguenots, France's Calvinist Protestant minority