Euro Timeline By aneriashton Period: Apr 30, 1337 to Apr 30, 1453 Hundred Years' War Period: Apr 30, 1375 to Apr 30, 1527 Italian Renaissance Apr 29, 1455 Printing Press Invented Apr 29, 1492 Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue Apr 29, 1517 Luther Posts 95 Theses Period: Apr 30, 1517 to Apr 30, 1650 Protestand Reformation Apr 29, 1519 Cortez conquers Aztecs Apr 29, 1534 Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church Apr 29, 1545 Council of Trent Opens Period: Apr 30, 1550 to Apr 30, 1700 Scientific Revolution Apr 29, 1555 Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany; Charles V abdicates Apr 29, 1598 Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars Period: Apr 30, 1618 to Apr 30, 1648 30 Years' War Apr 29, 1648 Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War Period: Apr 30, 1650 to Apr 30, 1800 Enlightenment Period Apr 30, 1685 Edict of Nantes Revoked Apr 29, 1688 Glorious Revolution; Peter the Great's reign begins in Russia Apr 29, 1740 War of Austrian Succession begins Period: Apr 30, 1740 to Apr 30, 1748 War of the Austrian Succession Period: Apr 30, 1756 to Apr 30, 1763 Seven Years' War Apr 29, 1763 Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War Apr 30, 1787 Beginning of the Frenc Revolution Apr 29, 1789 French Revolution Begins Apr 29, 1799 Napoleon comes to pwoer Apr 29, 1815 Congress of Vienna Apr 29, 1848 Revolutions of 1848; Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto Apr 29, 1861 Italy unified; Russian serfs emancipated Apr 29, 1871 Unification of Germany; Paris Commune and Third Republic in France Apr 30, 1871 Unification fo Germany and Italy Period: Apr 30, 1877 to Apr 30, 1913 Industrial Revolution Apr 29, 1905 Revolution of 1905 Apr 29, 1914 WWI begins Period: Apr 30, 1914 to Apr 30, 1919 WWI Apr 29, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Period: Apr 30, 1929 to Apr 30, 1945 The Great Depression Period: Apr 30, 1939 to Apr 30, 1945 WWII Period: Apr 30, 1945 to Apr 30, 1991 Cold War Apr 29, 1991 Fall of Societ Union Apr 30, 1993 Creation of the European Union