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AP Euro Dates
A study stack for the dates in AP European History class.
Question | Answer |
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1450 | Movable printing press |
1452-1519 | Da Vinci |
1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople |
1485 | Henry VII (Tudors) becomes first Tudor king of England |
1492 | Expulsion of Jews from Spain |
1509 | Erasmus, "Praise of Folly" |
1512 | Lateran Council |
1513 | Machiavelli, "The Prince" |
1516 | More, "Utopia" |
1516 | Concordat of Bologna |
1517 | Luther’s "Ninety-Five theses" |
1519-1556 | Charles V Holy Roman Emperor |
1519-1522 | Magellan circumnavigates the globe |
1524-1525 | Peasant’s Revolt in Germany |
1527 | Imperial sack of Rome |
1528 | Castiglione, "Book of the Courtier" |
1532-1534 | Henry VIII breaks with Rome |
1534 | Act of Supremacy |
1535 | Thomas More executed |
1536 | Pilgrimage of Grace |
1541 | Calvin establishes a theocracy in Geneva |
1546 | Luther died; start of religious wars |
1550-1725 | Baroque movement |
1555 | Peace of Augsburg |
1556-1598 | Philip II of Spain |
1561-1626 | Francis Bacon |
1563 | End of Council of Trent; end of Reformation |
1564-1642 | Galileo |
1566-1609 | Revolt in the Netherlands |
1572 | St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre |
1588 | Defeat of Spanish armada |
1598 | Edict of Nantes |
1598-1613 | Time of Troubles in Russia |
1603 | Death of Elizabeth I; end of the Renaissance |
1603-1625 | Reign of James I |
1618-1648 | Thirty Years’ War |
1625-1649 | Reign of Charles I of England |
1630 | Puritans settle Boston |
1642 | Death of Richelieu |
1642-1649 | English Civil War |
1643-1715 | Louis XIV |
1648-1653 | The Fronde in France |
1651 | Navigation Acts |
1658 | Cromwell died |
1660 | Restoration of English monarchy |
1663-1683 | Colbert’s commercialism in France |
1665 | Plague hits London |
1666 | Great Fire of London |
1673 | Test Act in England |
1685 | Revocation of the Edict of Nantes |
1685-1688 | Reign of James II |
1688-1689 | Glorious Revolution in England |
1687 | Newton, "Principia" |
1689 | Montesquieu born; start of the Enlightenment |
1690 | Locke, "Second Treaties on Civil Government" |
1701 | Tull invents the seed drill - start of Agricultural Revolution |
1701-1713 | War of Spanish Succession |
1701 | Foundation of St. Petersburg |
1707 | Act of Union with Scotland |
1712 | Savery and Newcomen steam pump |
1713 | Peace of Utrecht |
1715-1774 | Reign of Louis XV of France |
1774-1792 | Reign of Louis XVI of France |
1720 | Last appearance of the bubonic plague |
1733 | Kay's flying shuttle |
1740-1748 | War of Austrian Succession |
1748 | Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends war of Austrian Succession |
1740-1780 | Reign of Maria Theresa of Austria |
1751-1765 | Publication of the Encyclopedia by Diderot and d’Alembert |
1756-1763 | Seven Years War [French and Indian War] |
1762-1796 | Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia |
1765 | Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny |
1765 | Richard Arkwright invents the water frame |
1770-1827 | Beethoven |
1776 | Smith, "Wealth of Nations" |
1789 | Start of the French Revolution |
1790-1850 | Romantic movement |
1798 | Malthus, "Essay on the Principle of Population" |
1799-1814 | Napoleonic era |
1814-1815 | Congress of Vienna |
1819 | Battle of Peterloo |
1825 | First railroad in Britain |
1830s-40s | Height of French Utopian socialism |
1830 | Revolution in France |
1832 | Reform Bill |
1834 | Poor Law Reform |
1834 | German Zollverein founded |
1848 | Marx, "Communist Manifesto" |
1848 | England complete occupation of India |
1852-1870 | Second Empire in France |
1853-1856 | Crimean War |
1859 | Darwin, "Origin of Species" |
1862-1890 | Bismarck in power |
1864-1871 | Unification of Germany |
1864 | Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors |
1867 | Second Reform Bill |
1869 | Suez canal opens |
1870-1940 | Third Republic in France |
1878 | Congress of Berlin |
1885 | Berlin Conference |
1880-1900 | Scramble for Africa |
1896 | Kruger Telegram |
1898 | Fashoda crisis |
1894-1899 | Dreyfus case |
1899 | Kipling, "The White Man’s Burden" |
1899-1902 | Boer War |
1904 | Entente Cordiale (England and France) |
1907 | Anglo-Russian Treaty |
1914 | World War I |
1916 | Easter Rising, Dublin |
1925 | Locarno Pact |
1939 | Start of World War II in Europe |
1956 | Suez Crisis |
1957 | Treaty of Rome - created European Economic Community |
1972 | "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland |