AP European History Timeline 1450-2005

By Vivianna.Chang.18
  • Period: Apr 16, 1337 to Apr 16, 1453

    Hundred Years War

  • Period: Apr 16, 1400 to Apr 16, 1430

    1400-1430-Civic Humanism

    Created by the Medici Family. Civic Humanism is the belief that you can use education and art to improve your government and city-state
  • Period: Apr 19, 1430 to

    Age of Exploration

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to

    1450-1600-Renaissance

    The Beginning of the Renaissance signaled the end of the Middle Ages. Renaissance is the rebirth of interest in art, education, culture, and trade
  • Apr 16, 1469

    1469-first unificaiton of Spain when Ferdinand and Isabella get married

  • Apr 16, 1470

    1470-Reconquista

    Under Ferdinand and Isabella. Reconquista is the war against the Moors to drive them out of Spain
  • Aug 22, 1485

    1485-Start of Tudor Dynasty

  • Oct 31, 1517

    1517-Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the Church door

  • Period: Apr 19, 1522 to

    1522-Start of Protestant Reformation

  • Apr 16, 1555

    1555-Peace of Augsburg

  • Apr 16, 1558

    1558-Start of Elizabeth Tudor's reign

  • Apr 16, 1562

    1562-Beginning of the French Wars of Religion

    not actually month and date
  • Apr 16, 1572

    1572-St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

    St. Batholomew's Day Massacre was the first French War of Religion started by the Duke of Guise, who attacked a huguenot congregation killing many and the Prince of Conde. The Dule of Guise lied to Charles IX, saying the Huguenots were planning on killing Charles IX, so Henry of Naverre would become king since Henry was heir to the throne. Charles IX believed the Guise and influenced by his mother, started the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
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    17th Century-Scientific Revolution

  • 1618-Start of the 30 Years War

  • 1628-Petition of Right

  • 1642-Beginning of the English Revolution

  • 1648-Peace of Westphalia

  • 1649-Beginning of the Fronde

  • 1660-Restoration

  • 1661-Louis XIV becomes his own chief minister

  • 1662-Royal Society established

  • 1688-Glorious Revolution

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    18th Century-Enlightenment

  • Period: to

    18th Century-2nd Agricultural Revolution

  • 1701-Prussia becomes a kingdom

  • 1707-Act of Union brought political unification of England and Scotland

  • 1714-Treaty of Utrecht

  • 1740-War of Austrian Succession

  • 1756-Seven Years War

  • 1756-Maria Theresa xarried out the "Diplomatic Revolution"

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    1760s-Industrial Revolution in GB

  • 1774-First Continental Congress

  • 1775-Fighting starts between the American colonist and British

  • 1776-Declaration of Independence

  • 1778-France enters American Revolution on colonist side

  • 1781-Joseph II issues Edicts of Toleration

  • 1789-Estates-General meets for the first time, Third Estates declares themselves as National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, the Storming of the Bastille, Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the Women's march on Versailles

  • 1789-Start of French Revolution

  • Period: to

    !9th Century-Industrial Revolution on Continental Europe and United States, except for Spain which was 20th Century

  • 1814-1815-Congress of Vienna

  • 1832-First Reform Act passed in Great Britain

  • 1837-1901-Victorian Age in Great Britain

  • 1838-Chartist Movement in Great Britain

  • 1841-Great Potato Famine in Ireland

  • 1848-Revolutions of 1848

  • 1848-Revolutions in 1848

    Big events in Austria, Russia, and France

  • 1852-Napoleon III of France creates Second French Empire

  • 1854-1856-Crimean War

    Worst fought war and very unpopular

  • 1860-Unification of Italy

  • 1861-1865-American Civil War

  • 1867-Ausgleich in Austria created Dual Monarchy and Dominion of Canada created

  • Period: to

    New Imperialism

  • 1871-Unification of Germany

  • 1878-Congress of Berlin

    Before World War I

  • 1880-Start of New Imperialism

  • 1884-Reform Act of 1884 gave urban workers right to vote

  • 1890-Start of American Progressive Era and Birth of Nuclear Physics

  • 1904-Russo-Japanese War

    Japan modernizes and defeats Russia, leading Russia to the Revolution of 1905

  • 1914-World War I begins

  • 1917-U.S. enters World War I and the Russian Bolshevik Revolution

  • 1919-Versailles Treaty that ends World War I

  • 1929-U.S. Stock Market Crash

    "Roaring Twenties"; leads to Great Depression

  • 1938-Anschluss, where Germany annexes Austria

  • 1939-World War II begins

    begins when Germany invades Poland, making France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

  • 1945-World War II ends

  • 1948-1949-Berlin Airlift

  • 1948-New State of Israel proclaimed by the Jews

  • 1950-1963-Korean War

    War in Korea; resulting in the creation of North Korea (Communist) and South Korea (Democratic) with their border at the 39th Parallel

  • 1957-European Common Market forms (EEC)

    First step before the European Union

  • 1962-Cuban Missile Crisis

    Where the world was 30 seconds to 1 minute away from nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union near Cuba

  • 1989-Collapse of Communist begins

    Starts in Czechoslovakia

  • 1990-Reunification of Germany

    West and East Germany is reunified

  • 1994-Creation of European Union

  • 2001-9/11 Attacks on the United States

  • 2003-United States invades Iraq