Major European events by time period.

Time Periods

RenaissanceMedici’s in Florence

Printing Press: 1440’sRise of Ottoman EmpireWar of the Roses: Tudors 1460-1485Ferdinand and Isabella (Spanish Unification)

Spanish Inquisition

1400-1500

1500-1560Protestant Reformation1517: Ninety-five Thesis1528: Luther publishes

three treatises Zwingli breaks with Rome

1525: German Peasant Revolt

1527: Charles V sacks Rome

1534: Act of Supremacy, Henry VIII breaks with Rome

1536: Calvin publishes Institutes

1545-1563: Council of Trent

1555: Peace of AugsburgEnds religious wars

1559: Treaty of Cateau Cambresis ends Habsburg Valois War

1560-1648Century of Crisis1562: French Wars of

Religion1566: Dutch Revolt

against Spain1569: Creation of

Poland-Lithuania1571: Battle of

Lepanto begins the end of Ottomans

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

1588: Defeat of Spanish Armada

1598: Edict of Nantes ends French wars of Religion

1618: 30 Years’ War1633: Galileo recants

heliocentrism1648: Peace of

Westphalia ends 30 Years’ War

1648-1690Absolutism1642-1646: English

Civil War1649: Execution of

Charles I1651:Thomas Hobbes

publishes Leviathan1667: Louis XIV

begins first war1683: Austrians

break Turkish siege of Vienna

1685: Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes

1688: Glorious Revolution

1690: John Locke Two Treatises on Government

1690-1740Atlantic System1703: Peter the Great

of Russia begins St. Petersburg & 1st Newspaper

1713-1714: Peace of Utrecht (end of Louis wars)

1714: George I (Hanover) becomes king of England

1715: Louis XIV dies

1720: Last outbreak of Bubonic Plague

1733: Montesquieu publishes Persian Letters

George Frederick Handel Messiah

1740-1789Enlightenment1740-1748: War of

Austrian Succession1751-1772:

Encyclopedia1756-1763: 7 Years’

War1762: Social

Contract Rousseau1772: Partition of

Poland

1773: Pugachev Rebellion

1780: Joseph II Austria Enlightened Despot

Immanual Kant : 1785: Catherine the

Great en-serfs the serfs

1789-1800Revolutions1787: Dutch Patriot

Revolt1789: French

Revolution1791: Slave revolt in

Haiti1799: Napoleon

takes power

1800-1830Napoleon and Conservativism1799: Coup d’etat1801: Concordat

with Pope1804: Nap. Emperor1805: Trafalgar1812: Invades Russia1814-1815: Congress

of Vienna1815: Nap. Defeated

at Waterloo

Karlsbad Decrees Censorship

1825: Decembrist Revolt

1830: Greek Independence

1830-1850Industrialization Urbanization Revolution1830: Imperialism1833: Factory Act1834: Zollverein1839: Opium Wars1846: Irish Famine/

Corn Laws Repealed

1848: Revolutions Communist Manifesto

1851: Crystal Palace

1850-1870 Politics and Culture in Nation-States1850-1860:

Positivism and Darwinism

1850-1870: Realism1853-1856: Crimean

War1857: Sepoy Mutiny

in India1861: Victor

Emmanuel is King of Italy

1867: England Second Reform bill

1870-1871: Franco-Prussian War

1871: Germany is Unified

1870-1890Industry, Empire and Everyday1860-1890:

Impressionism1870-1890:

Emigration from Europe

1876: Phone1879: Dual Alliance

Austria-Hungary1882: Triple Alliance

1882-1884: Bismarck’s social welfare

1884: British Reform Act, suffrage for men

1884-1885: Berlin Conference

1890-1914Modernity and Road to War1894-1899: Dreyfus

Affair1899-1902: Boer War1900: Freud

publishes Interpretation of Dreams

1901: Queen Victoria dies

1903: Suffragetts1904-1905: Russo-

Japanese War. Japan wins

1906: Women Vote in Finland

1914: Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo

1914-1929War, Revolution, and Reconstruction1914: WWI begins1913-1925: Suffrage

across Europe1916: Easter

Uprising in Ireland1917: Revolution in

Russia1917: Bolshevik

Revolution against Provisional Government

1918-1922: Civil War in Russia

1919: Establishment of Weimar Republic

1919-1920: Paris Peace Conference

1922: Ireland Splits1924: Lenin Dies1924-1929: Good Times1929: Stock Market

Crash

1929-1945Age of Catastrophes1929: War against

kulaks in Russia1933: Hitler comes

to power1936: Purges in

RussiaSpanish Civil War

1939: Invasion of Poland, WWII

1940: France Falls1940-1941: Battle for

Britain1941: Invasion of

Soviet Union1941-1945: Holocaust1944: D-Day Invasion1945: Fall of Berlin,

Atomic Bombs

1945-1965Remaking Europe in the Cold War1945: Cold War1947: India and

Pakistan independence

1948: State of Israel1949: Mao Zedong

and communism1953: Stalin dies.

End of Korean War1954: Dien Bien Phu

1956: Nationalizing Suez Canal

1957 Dr. Zhivago, Sputnik, EEC (Common Market.

1958: 5th Republic1962: Cuban Missile

Crisis

1965-1989Postindustrial Society1962-1965: Reform of

Catholic ritual and dogma

1963: Feminine Mystique1966: Ostpolotik Willy

Brandt1967: 1st heart transplant1968: Czech revolt1969: Man on the moon1972 SALT I treaty1975: End of Vietnam

1977: Fminism1978: First test tube

baby1978-79: hostages in

Teheran1980: Margaret

Thatcher ends Socialism1980s: AIDS1985: Gorbachev1986: Chernobyl1989: Tianamen Square

1989 to PresentNew Globalism1990: Internet1990-1991: Persian

War1991: Civil War in

Yugoslavia1992: USSR is

dissolved1994: Nelson

Mandela president in S. Africa

1999: European Union, Pop. 6 million

2000: Putin President

2001: 9-112003: Iraqi invasion2004: Ten New

countries in UN