European History 1450-2005

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  • Apr 20, 1419

    Prince Henry Navigator school

  • Period: Apr 20, 1419 to

    Age of Exploration

    Want for colonies to create a favorable balance of trade, and to feed the new economic theory Mercantilism
  • Period: Apr 20, 1450 to Apr 20, 1485

    War of the Roses

    War of the roses- Lancaster and York family fought over control of England and Henry Tudor won
  • Period: Apr 20, 1450 to

    Reniassance

    The Reniassance was a rebirth in art, education, trade, and culture
  • Apr 20, 1487

    Diaz Voyage to Cape of Good Hope

    first man to go to the tip of Africa
  • Apr 20, 1492

    Unification of Spain

    Ferdinand and Isabella were married and began the unification through the Inquisition.
  • Apr 20, 1492

    Columbus found the New world

    Columbus found the West Indies
  • Apr 20, 1494

    treaty of Tordesailles

    set borders between Spain and Portugal
  • Apr 20, 1497

    De Gama first visit to India

  • Oct 13, 1497

    Cabot reaches East Coast

    Sails for GB and claims land
  • Apr 20, 1500

    Pedro Cabral

    claims Brazil for Portugal
  • Apr 20, 1502

    vespucci produces map of New world

    ya boy mapped out where we live
  • Apr 20, 1519

    Magellan Circumanaivgates the world

  • Apr 20, 1522

    Martin Luther began protestant reformation

    Began his break up with the RCC over the issue of justification and good works
  • Apr 20, 1522

    Cortez captured Mexico

    He conquered the aztec land for Spain
  • Apr 20, 1524

    Verrazano sails to NA

    claims it for france
  • Apr 20, 1525

    First German religous wars

    German states fought for the right to worship either Catholicism or Lutheran.
  • Apr 20, 1529

    Marbourg Colliquoy

    Zwingli and Luther argue over the presence of Christ in the Lord Supper
  • Apr 20, 1530

    Pizarro captures Peru

    conquers Incas for Spain
  • Period: Apr 20, 1533 to

    Ivan the Terrible

    Bad guy killed some folks
  • Apr 20, 1534

    Act of Supremacy

    Henry VIII created Anglican Church
  • Apr 20, 1534

    Cardier St. Lawrence river

    claims land for France
  • Apr 20, 1536

    Geneva Ministry

    Calvin began preaching his own theology in Geneva Switzerland
  • Apr 20, 1540

    Loyola and the Society of Jesus

    Catholic missionaries, Jesuits
  • Apr 22, 1540

    Scientific revolution begins

    new inventions and innovations are being made at a rapid pace
  • Apr 22, 1543

    Copernicus on the heavenly bodies

    discovered orbits
  • Apr 22, 1543

    Vessalius on the fabric of the human body

    thought the liver was the heart
  • Period: Apr 20, 1545 to Apr 20, 1563

    Council of Trent

    Called by Paul III to reform Catholic church. they Condemmed simony, lay investiture, nepotism, and reaffirmed, the pope as the supreme religious authority on earth, long masses, papal interpretation, and all 7 sacraments
  • Apr 20, 1555

    Peace of Augsbnurg

    Ended the German religious wars, Luthernan is allowed in German states
  • Apr 20, 1559

    Elizabethan settlement

    Put a temporary hold on religous problems in Endgland
  • Period: Apr 20, 1562 to

    French Religious Wars

    beatdown of the Huguenots in France at the hands of the Catholics, Charles IX
  • Period: Apr 20, 1581 to

    Golden age of Dutch republic

    only important because of Dutch trading company

  • Edict of Nantes

    ended French Religous Wars, Henry IV made Huguenots equal to Catholics

  • James I begins Stuart rule

    Sutart family takes over the crown of England

  • Jamestown

    first permanent english colony

  • Quebec

    Established first colony for France
  • Period: to

    Reign of Louis XIII

    pretty garbage

  • Galileo Starry Messenger

    heliocentric theory

  • Harvey on the motion of the blood

    realized the heart did all that

  • Romanov family in Russia

    Romanov dynasty begins
  • Period: to

    30 year war

    Ended by treaty of Westphalia, allowed Calvinism to be added to the list of allowable religions

  • Deductive reasoning/ Francis Bacon

    good stuff

  • Descartes Deductive reasoning

  • Hollenzollern in Prussia

    ruling family in Prussia
  • Period: to

    rule of Louis XIV

    awesome leader made France center of europe

  • Oliver Cromewell

    Good military dictator

  • English Civil War

    Roundheads vs. Cavaliers Charles was oppressive in taxes and the Puritans started a fight

  • Restoration

    Call back of Stuart family from France

  • Newton wrote Principia

    mechanics of the universe

  • Edict of Fontainbleau

    revoked all Huguenot rights

  • Glorious Revolution

    William and MAry of Orange took over England in a bloodless revolution
  • Period: to

    Peter the Great

    Massive guy, great ruler, strong military

  • war of Spanish Succession

    Bourbon King next for Spanish line of Kings ppl dont want him too
  • Period: to

    Frederic William !

    First Prussian King

  • Enlightenment begins

    a movement where individual rights, humanitarian treatment, were promoted

  • War of Austrian Succession

    Frederick the Great got busy with SIlesia
  • Period: to

    Maria Theresa

    Austrian Succesion, Silesia

  • Spirti of the Law

    US govt.

  • Diderot Encyclopedia

    culmination o fknowledge
  • Period: to

    7 years war

    first war on three continents. Prussia and GB vs. Russia, France, Austria treaty of PAris 1763

  • Catherine the Great

    sort of enlightened

  • Waterframe

    some invention

  • Partition of Poland

    Russia and Prussia

  • Declaration of Independence

    the only important dat ein history

  • Smith Wealth of Nations

    Laissez Faire, labor is power

  • Joseph II

    Most enlightened ruler

  • Steam Engine

    trains

  • American Revolution

    Us trashed GB, treaty of Paris 1783

  • Powerloom

    invention

  • train

  • French revolution

    Peasant revolt vs. Nobles Reign of terror

  • Napoleon ruled

    great ruler, best land general ever

  • Congress of Vienna

    Coalition of countries to set up barriers around France in order to stop any further spread of Revolution/ Napoleon ideals

  • Waterloo

    Napoleon is finally defeated

  • First Corn Laws

    taxed all grain

  • Revolutions in South America

    Spain became even more useless

  • Peterloo Massacr

    protesting corn laws

  • Greek Revolt

    beginning of the end for Ottomans

  • Monroe Doctrine

    Europe out of Americas

  • Continental Europe begins industrialization

  • Decembrist Revolt in Russia

    revolt against Czar Nicholas was a failure

  • July Revolution in France

    charles X issues July ordinances restoring absolute monarchy. middle class incites lower class to revolt. results in Charlex X abdication Louis Phillipe becomes king
  • Period: to

    Louis Phillipe rules France

    He is a bourbon, he is a citizen king, reinstates the revolutionary flag, and reinstates the constitution. dissapointed the urban working class who had revolted that made him king

  • Reform Act passed in Great Britain

    changed how to get in to House of Commons worked to fix rotten boroughs.

  • Grand National Consolidated Trades Union formed

    union for all trade unions, introduced 8 hour work day. the union collapses but established what would become a sucess
  • Period: to

    Victorian Age in Great Britain

    Queen Victoria rules, she changes political parties, and middle class christian morality

  • Chartist Movement

    men who decided the only way to reform was to get involved in the government. want universal manhood suffrage, eliminate property ownership requirement for Parliament, members of parliament should be paid, annual meeting of parliament. however it was not successful. their reforms get put in place 50 years later

  • Great Potato Famine in Ireland

    famine in Ireland, people depended on potatoes to survive, easy to grow and store

  • Revolutions of 1848

    Louis Napoleon becomes elected preseident of 2nd French Republic

  • Communist Manifesto published

    this decides that all historical events are caused by economics
  • Period: to

    Frankfurt Assembly in Germany

    this united Germany, delegates were sent to Frankfurt, Austria withdraws

  • Great Exhibition in Britain

    first world fair of culture and industry

  • Emperor Napoleon III proclaims Second French Empire

  • Period: to

    Crimean War

    Russia wants a warm water port it was poorly fought and if Russia had won it would have messed up the balance of power.

  • Crimean War

    Russia wanted warm water port and used religion as their excuse

  • Pasteur Germ theory

    realized germs were a thing
  • Period: to

    Unification of italy

    Piedmont Sardinia was Cavour Sicily Garibaldi

  • Origin of the Species

    Darwinism

  • No serfdom in Russia

    finally got rid of the serfs and began to catch up

  • Napoleon III makes Max emporor of Mexico

    trash Emperor led to revolts
  • Period: to

    Unification of Germany

    Bismark and his wars got land from all of the states and france and austria

  • Civil Wa

    States rights, slavery

  • Max removed as ruler, Ausgleich, Dominon of Canada

    Dual monarchy

  • Napoleon III toppled from power

    franco Prussian war

  • Third French Republic

    get a good govt.

  • Congress of Berlin

    Balkan division of Serbia and Austria

  • Congress of Berlin

    weakness of Ottoman empire caused problems,Austria Hungary and Russia want the land. they create Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Montenegro will be independent and they give Bosnia to Austria Hungary

  • triple alliance

    Germany, Austria, italy defensive allaince

  • reform act

    rotten boroughs upper lower class votes

  • Wilhelm II kaiser

    get out of here Bismark

  • Nuclear Physics, Progressive Era

    Nukes all that modern stuff

  • Dreyfus affiar

    Jew in France

  • Boer War

    Dutch vs. Africans

  • Spanish American War

    USA trashed Spain

  • Freud Volkism

    id, ego, superego, Aryans

  • Russo- Japanese war

    Japan railed Russian

  • Russian Revolution

    first of those filthy Bolsheviks

  • Triple Entente

    france Ryussia GB

  • Italy enters

    Allies

  • US enters the war Bolsheviks

    start of USSR

  • Versailles treaty

    stoipped the war

  • Coercion in the Rhineland

    they just flipped Germany right off

  • France Cartel of the Left, Lenin dies

    power struggle in USSR, all those liberals got toghether

  • Mussolini establishes Facism

    anti commies

  • Stock Market trash, Stalin

    bad year all round

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Hitler becomes dictator of Germany

  • collapse of Leauge of Nations

  • Period: to

    Spanish Civil War

    Facsist won training ground for Blitzkrieg

  • Japan invades China

  • Anschluss

    annexation of Austria into Germany

  • Germany takes Sudetenland, Austria

    finilization of Germany

  • Hitler Stalin Pact

  • Germany invades Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hitler Stalin Pact

    beginning of the war

  • western europe falls to Blitzkrieg

  • Battle of Britain

    6 months, one of Hitler big mistakes

  • New order/final solution begins in Germany

    the plan to anhilate all jews

  • Pearl Harbor, New order

    America into the war, Holocaust and all that

  • normandy invasion

    D day

  • D day, Battle of the Bulge

    ending the war

  • Germany and Japan surrender

  • germany surrenders Japan Nuked

    manhattan project, war is over

  • UN created by charter members

    Republic of China, US, GB, France, USSR

  • GB second welfare state

    modern day stuff

  • Israel

    comletion of zionist movement

  • Communist mainland China

    Mao Zedong defeated the nationalists and set up some commie stuff

  • Berline air lift

    Berlinw all made and the US has to bring food and supplies into west berlin by plane

  • Economic miracle

    West Germany fluorishes

  • Stalin is dead

  • Warsaw pact

    reaction to NATO

  • Hingarian revolt crushed

    they wanted reforms USSR said no no

  • european Common market, Rock around the clock

    try to compete with US, first rock and roll hit
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

    containment, VK and NV

  • Bay of Pigs

    bad moment for US in the cold war

  • Cuban Missile crisis

    very close to nuclear war

  • I have a dream

    civil rights

  • Nakia removed from Power, Gulf of Tonkin

    Johnson sent more troops into Vietnam

  • Six day war

    first Arab Israeli war in this century

  • Prauge Spring

    Soviets crush reformers in Czechoslovakia

  • OAPEC embargo and Watergate

    Nixon impeached, US realizes weakness of dependency on foreign oil

  • Iranian hostage crisis

    release the Shah

  • GB wins Falklands War

    Argentina wanted falklands GB said no

  • collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia

    they are having no more of being a satellite

  • Soivet Union begins to collapse

    no more communism

  • Persian gulf war

    Kuwait invasion

  • European Union

    to compete economically

  • 9/11

    OSama Bin Laden attacked the world trade center

  • Worldwide economic downturn

    somewhat of a regression in the money