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Renaissance

Period: Dec 24, 1400 to Dec 25, 1600

Printing Press

Dec 24, 1450

Period 1

Period: Dec 24, 1450 to Dec 25, 1648

Renaissance, Reformation & Religious Wars, Scientific Revolution, Age of Exploration

Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople//Hundred Years' War Ends

Dec 24, 1453

Columbus & Inquisition

Dec 24, 1492

Age of Exploration

Period: Dec 24, 1492 to Dec 25, 1565

95 Theses

Dec 24, 1517

Reformation & Religious Wars

Period: Dec 24, 1517 to Dec 25, 1648

Copernicus and Vesalius: Spheres & Fabrica

Dec 24, 1543

Scientific Revolution

Period: Dec 24, 1543 to Dec 25, 1642

Age of Absolutism

Period: Dec 24, 1550 to Dec 25, 1800

Peace of Augsburg

Dec 24, 1555

Spanish Armada & War of 3 Henrys

Dec 24, 1588

Peace of Westphalia & The Fronde

Dec 24, 1648

Period 2

Period: Dec 26, 1648 to Dec 25, 1815

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

Glorious Revolution & English Bill of Rights

Dec 24, 1688

Age of Imperialism

Period: Dec 24, 1700 to Dec 25, 1914

Treaty of Utrecht & Pragmatic Sanction

Dec 24, 1713

Fredrick the Great & Maria Theresa

Dec 24, 1740

Treaty of Paris (Seven Years' War)

Dec 24, 1763

Spinning Mule & First Steam Factories

Dec 24, 1779

French Revolution

Period: Dec 24, 1783 to Dec 25, 1799

French Revolution (Begins)

Dec 24, 1789

Rise of Napoleon

Dec 24, 1799

Age of Napoleon

Period: Dec 24, 1799 to Dec 25, 1804

Waterloo & Congress of Vienna

Dec 24, 1815

Age of Conservatism (Age of Metternich)

Period: Dec 24, 1815 to Dec 25, 1848

Period 3

Period: Dec 26, 1815 to Dec 25, 1914

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

Revolutions of 1830

Dec 24, 1830

Revolutions of 1848

Dec 24, 1848

Age of Liberalism and Nationalism

Period: Dec 24, 1848 to Dec 25, 1871

Italian Unification & Tsar Alexander Frees Serfs

Dec 24, 1861

German Unification (Bismark & Franco Prussian War)

Dec 24, 1871

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

Dec 24, 1914

WWI

Period: Dec 24, 1914 to Dec 25, 1919

Period 4

Period: Dec 26, 1914 to Dec 25, 2016

WWI, Age of Anxiety, WWII, Cold War, Student Revolts, Fall of Communism

Age of Anxiety

Period: Dec 24, 1919 to Dec 25, 1939

Rise of Mussolini

Dec 24, 1922

Stock Market Crash

Dec 24, 1929

Rise of Hitler

Dec 24, 1933

Invasion of Poland

Dec 24, 1939

WWII

Period: Dec 24, 1939 to Dec 25, 1945

Cold War

Period: Dec 24, 1945 to Dec 25, 1992

French Student Protests & Czech Revolt

Dec 24, 1968

New Nationalism & Fall of Communism

Period: Dec 24, 1978 to Dec 25, 2016

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

Dec 24, 1989