AP Euro Timeline

By sjennis7
  • Apr 9, 1215

    Magna Carta

  • Period: Apr 16, 1305 to Apr 16, 1377

    The Great Schism in Roman Catholic Church

  • Apr 16, 1321

    "Divine Comedy" begins vernacular literature

  • Period: Apr 16, 1338 to Apr 16, 1453

    Hundred Years War Between England and France

  • May 4, 1348

    Black Death Enters Europe

  • May 4, 1370

    English Parliament begins meeting in current form

  • May 4, 1419

    Prince Henry forms navigators' school

  • May 4, 1450

    Renaissance Begins

  • Period: May 4, 1450 to May 4, 1485

    War of the Roses in Europe

  • Period: May 4, 1487 to May 4, 1488

    Dias' voyage to Cape of Good Hope

  • May 4, 1492

    Unification of Spain completed

  • May 4, 1492

    Columbus lands in the Western Hemiaspere

  • May 4, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • May 4, 1497

    Cabot sails to North America

  • Period: May 4, 1497 to May 4, 1498

    De Gama's first voyage to India

  • May 4, 1500

    Cabral claims Barzil

  • May 8, 1502

    Vespuchi produces map of new world

  • Period: May 8, 1519 to May 8, 1522

    Magellan's Expedition; Cortes Captures Mexico

  • May 4, 1522

    Matrin Luther begins protestant reformation

  • May 8, 1524

    Verrazano sails to North America

  • May 4, 1525

    First German Religious Wars

  • May 4, 1529

    Marburg Colloquy

  • Period: May 8, 1530 to May 8, 1535

    Pizarro captures Peru

  • Period: May 8, 1533 to

    Ivan the Terrible rules Russia

  • May 4, 1534

    Act of Supremacy creates the Anglican Church

  • May 8, 1534

    Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River

  • May 4, 1536

    Calvin Begins Geneva Ministry

  • May 4, 1540

    Loyola forms the Society of Jesus

  • May 8, 1540

    Scientific Revolution begins

  • May 8, 1543

    Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies; Vesalius, On the Fabric of the Human Body

  • Period: May 4, 1545 to May 4, 1563

    Council of Trent reforms Roman Catholic Church

  • May 4, 1555

    Pease of Augsburg

  • May 4, 1559

    Elizabethan Settlement

  • Period: May 4, 1562 to

    French Wars of Religion

  • Period: May 8, 1581 to

    Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

  • Edict of Nantes

  • James I brings Stuart rule to England

  • Jamestown established

  • Quebec established

  • Galileo, The Starry Messenger

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    Reign of Louis XIII in France

  • Michael Romanov re-establishes czarist rule in Russia

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    Thirty Years War

  • Bacon develops inductive reasoning

  • Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood

  • Descartes develops deductive reasoning

  • Hohenzollerns come to power in Prussia

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    English Civil War

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    Reign of Louis XIV in France

  • Period: to

    Cromwell rules England

  • Restoration

  • Edict of Fontainebleu

  • Newton, Principia

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Period: to

    Peter the Great rules Russia

  • Period: to

    War of Spanish Succession

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    Frederick William I of Prussia

  • Enlightenment begins

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    Frederick the Great of Prussia

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    Maria Theresa of Austria

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    War of Austrian Succession

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws

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    Diderot and Encyclopedia

  • Period: to

    Seven Years War (French and Indian War in America)

  • Voltaire’s Candide

  • Rousseau’s The Social Contract and Emile

  • Period: to

    Catherine the Great of Russia

  • Treaty of Paris, 1763

  • First Partition of Poland begins

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

  • Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

  • Period: to

    Joseph II of Austria

  • Treaty of Paris, 1783

  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • Period: to

    Rule of Napoleon

  • Napoleon exiled to Elba

  • Napoleon returns/Defeated at Waterloo

  • Congress of Berlin

  • Triple Alliance formed

  • Wilhelm II becomes kaiser

  • Birth of nuclear physics; Start of American Progressive Era

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    Dreyfus Affair

  • Period: to

    Spanish American War

  • Period: to

    Boer War

  • Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams; Birth of modern volkism

  • Russo-Japanese War

  • Russian Revolution of 1905

  • Triple Entente formed

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated; World War I begins

  • Italy enters the war

  • U S enters the war; Russian Bolshevik Revolution

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; Americans enter the fighting; Armistice declared

  • Versailles Treaty

  • Period: to

    French policy of coersion in the Rhineland

  • France's Cartel of the Left: Lenin dies in Soviet Union

  • Mussolini establishes Fascism in Italy

  • Stock Market crash in US; Stalin becomes dictator of Soviet Union

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • New Deal begins in US; Hitler becomes Nazi dictator of Germany

  • Collapse of League of Nations; Germany occupies Rhineland; Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty

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    Spanish Civil War

  • Japan invades China

  • Anschluss; Munich Conference; Germany takes Sudetenland

  • Germany invades Czechoslovakia; Hitler-Stalin Pact; Germany invades Poland starting World War II

  • Western Europe falls to Blitzkrieg; Battle of Britain begins

  • New Order/Final Solution begin in Germany; Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

  • Normandy invasion; Battle of the Bulge

  • Germany surrneders; Atomic bombs dropped on Japan; Japan surrenders

  • Basis for the United Nations agreed upon by 5 charter members

  • Great Britain becomes “welfare state”

  • Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Great Britain gives India and Pakistan independence

  • Jews proclaim new state in Israel

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    First Berlin blockade and Berlin airlift

  • China falls to the Communists; Republic of China established on Taiwan; United Nations begins; NATO forms; Konrad Adenauer becomes first chancellor of West Germany

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Joseph Stalin dies

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet Union

  • European Common Market forms; Bill Haley and the Comets release first “Rock and Roll” hit

  • Berlin wall constructed

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. leads Civil Rights “March on Washington”

  • Palestinian Liberation Organization formed: Khrushchev removed as leader of Soviet Union; Gulf of Tonkin resolution escalates American involvement in Vietnam

  • Six Day War in Middle East

  • Soviets crush “Prague spring” in Czechoslovakia

  • Watergate scandal paralyzes US; OPEC oil embargo shakes western economies

  • Iran seizes US embassy in Tehran with hostages: Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

  • Solidarity movement begins in Poland

  • Great Britain wins Falklands War

  • Collapse of communism begins in Czechoslovakia

  • Soviet Union begins to break apart; Germany is reunified

  • Communism ends in Soviet Union which becomes Russia again; First Persian Gulf War

  • European Union created

  • Terrorist attack on the US on 9/11; Coalition war on terrorists in Afghanistan

  • US invades Iraq

  • Worldwide eonomic collapse