European History By wiestli Jan 1, 1835 Great Trek Jan 1, 1842 Treaty of Nanking Jan 1, 1848 Britain's First Public Health Law Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Dec 31, 1899 Realism Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Dec 31, 1914 Condition of working class improves Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Dec 31, 1870 Modernization of Paris Period: Jan 1, 1852 to Dec 31, 1871 Reign of Napoleon III Jan 1, 1853 Perry opens Japan Jan 1, 1854 Pasteur studies fermentation and develops pasteurization Period: Jan 1, 1854 to Dec 31, 1870 Development of germ theory Period: Jan 1, 1857 to Dec 31, 1858 Great Rebellion Jan 1, 1859 On the Origin of Species published Period: Jan 1, 1859 to Dec 31, 1871 Unification of Italy Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Dec 31, 1900 Industrialization of Russia Jan 1, 1861 Freeing of Russian serfs Period: Jan 1, 1861 to Dec 31, 1865 US Civil War Period: Jan 1, 1863 to Dec 31, 1879 Reign of Ismail Jan 1, 1864 Creation of International Working Men's Association Jan 1, 1866 Austro-Prussian War Jan 1, 1867 Meiji Restoration Jan 1, 1869 Mendeleev creates periodic table of the elements Jan 1, 1869 Completion of Suez Canal Period: Jan 1, 1870 to Dec 31, 1871 Franco-Prussian War Period: Jan 1, 1870 to Dec 31, 1878 Kulturkampf Jan 1, 1871 Paris Commune Jan 1, 1873 Three Emperors' League Period: Jan 1, 1880 to Dec 31, 1913 Birthrate declines Period: Jan 1, 1880 to Dec 31, 1889 German surgeons use antiseptic principle Period: Jan 1, 1880 to Dec 31, 1889 Migration Restrictions Jan 1, 1882 English law gives married women property rights Jan 1, 1882 Triple Alliance Jan 1, 1883 First social security laws Period: Jan 1, 1884 to Dec 31, 1885 Berlin Conference Jan 1, 1885 Creation of Hindu Indian National Congress Jan 1, 1887 Russian-French Alliance Period: Jan 1, 1890 to Dec 31, 1899 Electric streetcars introduced Period: Jan 1, 1894 to Dec 31, 1895 Sino-Japanese War Jan 1, 1898 British defeat Africans at Omdurman Jan 1, 1898 US takes over Philippines Jan 1, 1898 Hundred Days of Reform Period: Jan 1, 1898 to Dec 31, 1899 Dreyfus Affair Jan 1, 1899 The White Man's Burden Published Jan 1, 1901 Bloody Sunday in Russia Jan 1, 1902 Heart of Darkness and Imperialism published Oct 1, 1905 October Manifesto Jan 1, 1906 Algeciras Conference Period: Jan 1, 1906 to Dec 31, 1914 Welfare reform in Great Britain Jan 1, 1912 End of Qing Dynasty Jan 1, 1912 First Balkan War Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand Sep 6, 1914 Battle of the Marne Oct 1, 1914 Ottoman Empire joins war Jan 1, 1915 Ministry of Munitions established Jan 1, 1915 Armenian Genocide May 1, 1915 Italy joins Triple Entente May 1, 1915 Lusitania sinks Jan 1, 1916 Battle of Somme Apr 1, 1916 Easter Rebellion Dec 1, 1916 Auxiliary Service Law Jan 1, 1917 Arab Revolt Jan 1, 1917 Russian Revolution Apr 1, 1917 US joins war Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Dec 31, 1920 Russian Civil War Mar 1, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Nov 1, 1918 German Revolution Nov 11, 1918 Armistice Jan 1, 1919 Treaty of Versailles Jan 1, 1919 Rutherford splits atom Jan 1, 1919 Freudian psychology gains attention Jan 1, 1920 Live public radio broadcasts Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1929 Stream-of-consciousness literature develops Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1929 Existentialism Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1939 Dadaism and surrealism Jan 1, 1921 New Economic Policy Jan 1, 1922 Mussolini seizes power Jan 1, 1923 France and Belgium occupy Ruhr Jan 1, 1924 Dawes Plan Period: Jan 1, 1924 to Dec 31, 1929 Build-up of Nazi Party Jan 1, 1927 Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty Jan 1, 1927 Stalin comes to power Jan 1, 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact Jan 1, 1928 First Five-Year Plan Jan 1, 1929 Start of collectivization Jan 1, 1929 Lateran Agreement Period: Oct 28, 1929 to Dec 31, 1939 Great Depression Period: Jan 1, 1932 to Dec 31, 1933 Famine in Ukraine Jan 1, 1933 Hitler appointed chancellor Jan 1, 1933 Enabling Act Jan 1, 1934 Murder of Sergei Kirov Jan 1, 1935 Creation of WPA Jan 1, 1936 Formation of Popular Front Jan 1, 1936 Start of Great Purges Mar 1, 1936 Germany occupys Rhineland Jul 1, 1936 Spanish Civil War Aug 1, 1938 Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact Sep 1, 1938 Muinch Conference Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland; Start of WWII Jan 1, 1940 Creation of Vichy government Jan 1, 1940 Battle of Britain Jan 1, 1941 Germany invades USSR Period: Jan 1, 1941 to Dec 31, 1945 Holocaust Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1942 Battle of Midway May 1, 1942 El Alamein May 1, 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea Nov 1, 1943 Teheran Conference Jun 6, 1944 Invasion of Normandy Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1962 Big Science Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1969 Decolonization Feb 1, 1945 Yalta Conference May 7, 1945 Germany capitulates Jul 1, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 1, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Jan 1, 1947 Partition of India Jan 1, 1947 Creation of Israel Jan 1, 1947 Truman Doctrine Jan 1, 1947 Marshall Plan Jan 1, 1949 China becomes communist Jan 1, 1949 Formation of NATO Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1953 Korean War Period: Jan 1, 1953 to Dec 31, 1964 De-Stalinization Jan 1, 1955 Warsaw Pact Jan 1, 1956 Doctor Zhivago published Oct 1, 1956 Hungarian Revolution Jan 1, 1957 Formation of Common Market Jan 1, 1958 Fifth Republic of France Jan 1, 1961 Building of Berlin Wall Jan 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Period: Jan 1, 1964 to Dec 31, 1973 US Involvement in Vietnam War Jan 1, 1966 Formation of NOW Jan 1, 1968 Student protests in Paris Jan 1, 1968 USSR invades Czechoslovakia Jan 1, 1969 First man on moon Jan 1, 1972 Watergate scandal Jan 1, 1973 OPEC oil embargo Jan 1, 1975 Helsinki Conference Jan 1, 1979 Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister
