European History Timeline

By kirari
  • Period: 1400 to 1550

    Italian Renaissance

  • Period: 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • Period: 1430 to

    Northern Renaissance

  • 1440

    Invention of Printing Press

  • Period: 1450 to 1500

    Reign of Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain

  • Period: 1460 to 1490

    War of the Roses

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Reign of Henry VIII of England

  • 1517

    95 Theses

  • Period: 1517 to

    Protestant Reformation

  • Period: 1540 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • 1545

    Council of Trent

  • Period: 1550 to

    Reign of Elizabeth I of England

  • Period: 1550 to

    Catholic Reformation

  • 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Period: 1560 to

    French Wars of Religion

  • Spanish Armada

  • Henry of Navarre become first Bourbon king of France

  • Creation of Dutch East India Co.

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    Thirty Years War

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    English Civil War

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    Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Glorious Revolution

  • The Bill of Rights

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    War of the Spanish Succession

  • Peace of Utrecht

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    Age of Enlightenment

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    Industrial Revolution

  • Adam Smith publishes "The Wealth of Nations"

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    French Revolution

  • Creation of First French Republic

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    Reign of Terror

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    Napoleonic Era

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    Reign of Louis XVIII of France

  • Spanish Revolution

  • Italian Revolution

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    Great Britain makes incremental reforms

  • 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

  • Second French Revolution

  • 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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    Opium War

  • 1848 Revolutions

    A series of republican revolts against monarchies.
    The countries involved include Italy, Germany, France, and the Austrian Empire.

  • Karl Marx publishes "Communist Manifesto"

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    Italian Unification

  • Creation of Second French Republic

  • Election of President Napoleon III of France

  • Great Britain hosts the Great Exhibition of 1851

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    Age of Unification

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    Crimean War

  • Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species"

  • Austro-Prussian War

    Also known as the Seven Weeks War.

  • Franco-Prussian War

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    Second Industrial Revolution

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    Age of Imperialism

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    Third French Republic

  • German Unification

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    Scramble for Africa

  • 1905 Russian Revolution

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    World War I

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    Russian Revolution

  • End of Austrian Empire

  • End of Ottoman Empire

  • End of German Empire

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    Existence of the German state Weimar Republic

  • Treaty of Versailles

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    Lenin governs Soviet Union

    Lenin governs Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924.
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    Stalin governs Soviet Union

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    The Great Depression

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    World War II

  • 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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    Cold War

  • Creation of Marshall Plan

  • NATO founded

  • Creation of COMECON

  • De-Stalinization begins

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    Khrushchev governs Soviet Union

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    Existence of the Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Prague Spring

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    Iran-Iraq War

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    Gorbachev governs Soviet Union

  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union

  • Creation of European Union

  • End of British Empire

  • Brexit