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Period: 1400 to 1550
Italian Renaissance
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Period: 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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Period: 1430 to
Northern Renaissance
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1440
Invention of Printing Press
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Period: 1450 to 1500
Reign of Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain
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Period: 1460 to 1490
War of the Roses
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Period: 1500 to 1550
Reign of Henry VIII of England
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1517
95 Theses
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Period: 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
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Period: 1540 to
Scientific Revolution
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1545
Council of Trent
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Period: 1550 to
Reign of Elizabeth I of England
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Period: 1550 to
Catholic Reformation
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1555
Peace of Augsburg
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Period: 1560 to
French Wars of Religion
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Spanish Armada
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Henry of Navarre become first Bourbon king of France
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Creation of Dutch East India Co.
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Period: to
Thirty Years War
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Period: to
English Civil War
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Period: to
Reign of Louis XIV of France
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Peace of Westphalia
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Glorious Revolution
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The Bill of Rights
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Period: to
War of the Spanish Succession
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Peace of Utrecht
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Period: to
Age of Enlightenment
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Adam Smith publishes "The Wealth of Nations"
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Period: to
French Revolution
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Creation of First French Republic
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Period: to
Reign of Terror
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Period: to
Napoleonic Era
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Period: to
Reign of Louis XVIII of France
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Spanish Revolution
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Italian Revolution
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Great Britain makes incremental reforms
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Greek Revolution
The revolution is successful and Greece gets independence. -
Decembrist Revolt
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Reign of Charles X of France
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Reign of Nicholas I of Russia
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Second French Revolution
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Serbian Revolution
The revolution is successful and Serbia gets independence. -
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Reign of Louis Phillipe I of France
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Period: to
Opium War
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1848 Revolutions
A series of republican revolts against monarchies.
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Karl Marx publishes "Communist Manifesto"
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Period: to
Italian Unification
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Creation of Second French Republic
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Election of President Napoleon III of France
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Great Britain hosts the Great Exhibition of 1851
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Age of Unification
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Crimean War
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Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species"
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Austro-Prussian War
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Franco-Prussian War
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Period: to
Second Industrial Revolution
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Period: to
Age of Imperialism
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Period: to
Third French Republic
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German Unification
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Period: to
Scramble for Africa
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1905 Russian Revolution
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Period: to
World War I
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Period: to
Russian Revolution
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End of Austrian Empire
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End of Ottoman Empire
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End of German Empire
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Existence of the German state Weimar Republic
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Treaty of Versailles
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Period: to
Lenin governs Soviet Union
Lenin governs Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924. -
Period: to
Stalin governs Soviet Union
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Period: to
The Great Depression
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Period: to
World War II
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Potsdam Conference
Last of the meetings between the "Big Three." -
Yalta Conference
Discussion about the post-war reorganization of Germany. -
Treaty of Paris
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Period: to
Cold War
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Creation of Marshall Plan
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NATO founded
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Creation of COMECON
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De-Stalinization begins
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Period: to
Khrushchev governs Soviet Union
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Period: to
Existence of the Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Prague Spring
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Period: to
Iran-Iraq War
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Period: to
Gorbachev governs Soviet Union
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Creation of European Union
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End of British Empire
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Brexit