AP European History

By kirari
  • Period: 1400 to 1550

    Renaissance

  • 1440

    Printing Press

  • Period: 1450 to

    Period 1

  • Period: 1455 to 1487

    War of the Roses

    Marked the beginning of the ​English Tudor Dynasty.
  • Period: 1474 to 1504

    Reign of Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain

    Both are Catholic monarchs.
  • 1492

    Columbus sets sail to India (the Americas)

    Also marks the end of the Reconquista.
  • Period: 1509 to 1546

    Reign of Henry VIII of England

  • 1517

    Martin Luther's 95 Theses

  • Period: 1543 to

    Scientific Revolution

    Period of Influence
    Copernicus: 1470 - 1545
    Galileo: 1565 - 1645
    Newton: 1565 - 1700
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent

  • 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    The prince decides the religion of his territory (no recognition of Calvinists).
  • Period: 1558 to

    Reign of Elizabeth I of England

  • Period: 1562 to

    French Wars of Religion

    Battles between aristocracy and monarchy as well as religion.

  • Spanish Armada

    The fall of Spain and the rise of England.
  • Period: to

    Reign of Henry IV of France

    Marked the beginning of the ​French Bourbon dynasty.

  • Edict of Nantes

    Ended French Wars of Religion and gave Huguenots (French Calvinists) some rights. France mainly Catholic afterward​.

  • Dutch East India Company established

    The Netherlands entered a "Golden Age."
  • Period: to

    Russian Romanov Dynasty

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years War

  • Period: to

    English Revolution

    Also during Commonwealth Period when England was a republic but soon afterward​ restored as a monarchy under Stuart Dynasty.
  • Period: to

    Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Peace of Westphalia

    Same as Peace of Augsburg but now recognized Calvinists.
  • Period: to

    Period 2

  • Glorious Revolution

    Replacement of Catholic king James II with Protestant couple Mary and William of Orange.

  • The Bill of Rights

    Parliament had more involvement with the ​monarchy.
  • Period: to

    War of Spanish Succession

  • Treaty of Utrecht

  • Period: to

    Age of Enlightenment

  • French Revolution

  • First French Republic

  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

  • Napoleon seizes power

    This marks the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic Era.

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Unification of Germany

  • Berlin Conference

  • 1905 Russian Revolution

  • Beginning of WW1