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APWH Western Europe

  • 476

    Fall of Rome

    End of the Roman Empire
  • Period: 700 to 1400

    Feudalism

    Relationship between lords, fiefs, and vassals
  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne

    Ruler of the Holy Christian Empire
  • 1054

    Great Schism

    Break between the Eastern and Western Churches
  • 1122

    Concordat of Worms

    End of fight between the King and the Pope
  • 1154

    Common Law Implemented

    Henry II Implements Common Law
  • Period: 1200 to 1300

    Mongols

    Mongol Invasions, Didn't effect much
  • 1215

    Magna Carta

    Creation of the Magna Carta, Limits King Power
  • Period: 1271 to 1295

    Marco Polo

    Years of Marco Polo's Travels
  • 1295

    Parliament

    King Edward creates Parliament
  • Period: 1331 to 1431

    Black Plague

    Basic time span of Black Death/Plague
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years War

    War between France and Britian, France Won
  • Period: 1340 to 1550

    Italian Reniassance

    A time of beautiful art in Italy as a bunch of artists decided to become good.
  • 1378

    Peasants Revolt

    Revolt in Britian
  • Period: 1400 to

    Northern Reniassance

    Similar to Italy, but now in North Europe
  • Period: 1450 to

    Commercial Revolution

    Rise of commerce in European states
  • 1453

    Fall of Byzantine

    Eastern Europe stuff, Muslims took capital, Istanbul not Constantinople
  • Period: 1455 to 1485

    War of the Roses

    War in Britian over ruling class family
  • 1492

    Reconquista

    Taking back Spain from the Muslims by Isabella and Ferdinand
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    In fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
  • 1498

    Vasco de Gama's Voyage

    The arrival of Vasco de Gama in India and the start of European spread.
  • 1511

    Malacca Control

    Portugal takes control of Malacca in India and starts their trading empire.
  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy

    This established that the king was the head of the church.
  • Period: 1543 to

    Scientific Revolution

    Period where there were major scientific revelations in regards to people like Newton or Galileo.
  • 1545

    Council of Trent

    Meeting between members of the Catholic Church in regards to the Protestant Reformation
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent

  • Period: 1558 to

    Queen Elizabeth

    Ruler of England and brought the Elizabethan Era
  • Period: to

    Witchcraft Trials

    Time in which a bunch people thought every woman was a witch and just killed a lot of them.
  • VOC

    Creation of the Dutch East India company and a main start to Colonization
  • Jamestown

    Formation of the first permanent colony in Northern America
  • Period: to

    Thirty Years War

    Battles between religious sects with Germany in the middle, eventually allowing them to pick their own religions and separating them.
  • Period: to

    English Civil Wars

    Fights between the King and Parliament over power
  • Period: to

    Louis XIV Reign

    Reign of Louis XIV, one of the better rulers of France who used Absolutism. Dang he ruled for 72 years
  • Period: to

    The Enlightenment

    Time when people started thinking about human lives and our place in the universe
  • Glorious Revolution

    Also in 1689, battle of William and Mary to take control of throne (Bloodless)
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights enacted in England after Glorious Revolution.
  • Period: to

    Seven Years War

    War between France and England in multiple different places like India and America, leading to the American Revolution
  • Period: to

    British Industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution where it first started: Britain
  • Treaty of Paris

    End of American Revolution and Seven Years War, gave France land and America freedom
  • French Revolution

    Also in 1799, time when the people of France finally revolted against the king.
  • Napoleon

    Start of Napoleons reign, the leader of France who spread throughout Europe in his conquests.
  • Period: to

    Napoleon

  • Congress of Vienna

    Meeting of a bunch of European countries after Napoleon was defeated
  • End of Napoleon(Waterloo)

    Final battle where Napoleon is defeated and Exiled.
  • Reform Act of 1832

    This allowed middle class men to vote
  • Revolutions of 1848

    Multiple Revolutions occured such as ones in Italy, France, German, Hungary, Austria, and More.
  • Italian Revolution of 1848

    Italy's
  • Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto, starting that whole Communism thing
  • Origin of Species

    After returning from his studies on the Galapagos islands, Charles Darwin published his ideas on Evolution(turned into Racism)
  • Unification of Italy

    Italy is finally Unified after decades of multiple states being separated
  • Period: to

    Second Industrial Revolution

    More items were made as other countries joined in on Industrialization.
  • Unification of Germany

    Germany is also finally unified after the Thirty Years War
  • Berlin Conference

    Conference where a bunch of European states came together to decide how to split Africa.
  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    Duke of Austria killed by Serbian Black Hand, starts WW1
  • Period: to

    WW1

    War
    War never changes
    (1,000 yard stare)
  • Battle of Verdun

    Ending December, this was the longest trench battle during WW1
  • Treaty of Versailles

    End of WW1, this forced Germany to pay reparations
  • Rise of Fascism in Italy

    Mussolini rises to power in Italy, making it a dictatorship
  • Period: to

    Mussolini Rules

    Rule of Mussolini in Italy until his assassination in 1943
  • Period: to

    The Great Depression

    Period of great economic turmoil in the whole world, only ended by the start of WWII.
  • Stock Market Crash

    Known as Black Thursday, the day the Stock Market Crashed, starting the Great Depression
  • Nazi Rise

    Seizure of Power in Germany by the Nazis, starting their reign
  • Night of the Broken Glass

    When a bunch of Nazis raided German Jewish homes
  • Period: to

    WW2

  • Invasion of Poland

    Starts WW2, with Hitler wanting to invade the world and spread his... special ideas.
  • Period: to

    Holocaust

    When the Nazi rounded up as many Jews as possible and put them in Camps, killing or forcing them to work
  • Creation of IMF/World Bank

    Used to help support developing countries financially
  • D-Day

    Storming of the Beaches, Known as operation OVERLORD
  • Conference of Yalta

    Meetings between the Allies powers that mainly consisted of USA arguing with USSR on Communism vs Democracy
  • Conference at Potsdam

    Negotiated terms about the end of WW2
  • Hiroshima

    1st bomb from the USA
  • Nagasaki

    2nd bomb from the USA. Japan surrendered this time.
  • End of WW2

    Japan Surrenders, Ending the War fully
  • Period: to

    Cold War

    A proxy war between the USA and the USSR about which is better, Democracy or Communism, and who could nuke the other first.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan implemented in Europe to help recover nations
  • NATO

    Formation of NATO, a group of states opposed to Communism which turned into a World Council of sorts
  • Berlin Wall Creation

    Beginning building a wall between West and East Germany to separate the socialists from the Westerners.
  • Student Protests

    Very common were protests by students who believed something was unfair, with 1968 being a big year for them
  • Margaret Thatcher

    Election of Margaret Thatcher, a Conservative who cut back on the Welfare State Britain had been for years
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    As the soviet union collapses, they finally decide to destroy the wall, the people are happy now.
  • The EU

    Creation of the European Union, which provides economic safety and implemented the common currency of Euros.
  • Period: to

    Ukraine War

    Russia, under Putin dictatorship, invades Ukraine, setting a war in motion that is still going on in the present
  • The Present

    The Present
    The Internet is everywhere, AI is growing, Inflation is present, Memes are spreading, and I'm finally finished with this.