Timeline: APEuro | Timetoast

Period: Dec 24, 1400 to Dec 25, 1600

Renaissance
Dec 24, 1450

Printing Press
Period: Dec 24, 1450 to Dec 25, 1648

Period 1

Renaissance, Reformation & Religious Wars, Scientific Revolution, Age of Exploration
Dec 24, 1453

Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople//Hundred Years' War Ends
Dec 24, 1492

Columbus & Inquisition
Period: Dec 24, 1492 to Dec 25, 1565

Age of Exploration
Dec 24, 1517

95 Theses
Period: Dec 24, 1517 to Dec 25, 1648

Reformation & Religious Wars
Dec 24, 1543

Copernicus and Vesalius: Spheres & Fabrica
Period: Dec 24, 1543 to Dec 25, 1642

Scientific Revolution
Period: Dec 24, 1550 to Dec 25, 1800

Age of Absolutism
Dec 24, 1555

Peace of Augsburg
Dec 24, 1588

Spanish Armada & War of 3 Henrys
Dec 24, 1648

Peace of Westphalia & The Fronde
Period: Dec 26, 1648 to Dec 25, 1815

Period 2

Absolutism (& Constitutionalism), Balance of Power, French Revolution, Napoleon
Dec 24, 1688

Glorious Revolution & English Bill of Rights
Period: Dec 24, 1700 to Dec 25, 1914

Age of Imperialism
Dec 24, 1713

Treaty of Utrecht & Pragmatic Sanction
Dec 24, 1740

Fredrick the Great & Maria Theresa
Dec 24, 1763

Treaty of Paris (Seven Years' War)
Dec 24, 1779

Spinning Mule & First Steam Factories
Period: Dec 24, 1783 to Dec 25, 1799

French Revolution
Dec 24, 1789

French Revolution (Begins)
Dec 24, 1799

Rise of Napoleon
Period: Dec 24, 1799 to Dec 25, 1804

Age of Napoleon
Dec 24, 1815

Waterloo & Congress of Vienna
Period: Dec 24, 1815 to Dec 25, 1848

Age of Conservatism (Age of Metternich)
Period: Dec 26, 1815 to Dec 25, 1914

Period 3

Congress of Vienna, Age of -Isms (Conservatism, Nationalism, and Liberalism, Imperialism), Industrial Revolution, Italian & German Unification
Dec 24, 1830

Revolutions of 1830
Dec 24, 1848

Revolutions of 1848
Period: Dec 24, 1848 to Dec 25, 1871

Age of Liberalism and Nationalism
Dec 24, 1861

Italian Unification & Tsar Alexander Frees Serfs
Dec 24, 1871

German Unification (Bismark & Franco Prussian War)
Dec 24, 1914

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Period: Dec 24, 1914 to Dec 25, 1919

WWI
Period: Dec 26, 1914 to Dec 25, 2016

Period 4

WWI, Age of Anxiety, WWII, Cold War, Student Revolts, Fall of Communism
Period: Dec 24, 1919 to Dec 25, 1939

Age of Anxiety
Dec 24, 1922

Rise of Mussolini
Dec 24, 1929

Stock Market Crash
Dec 24, 1933

Rise of Hitler
Dec 24, 1939

Invasion of Poland
Period: Dec 24, 1939 to Dec 25, 1945

WWII
Period: Dec 24, 1945 to Dec 25, 1992

Cold War
Dec 24, 1968

French Student Protests & Czech Revolt
Period: Dec 24, 1978 to Dec 25, 2016

New Nationalism & Fall of Communism
Dec 24, 1989

Year of Miracles (Fall of Berlin Wall, Velvet Revolution)