| Date |
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| Event(s) |
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| 1450 |
Invention of printing press (Gutenberg) => Renaissance |
| 1492 |
Age of Discovery, Columbus lands in Americas, Inquisition |
| 1517 |
Luther's 95 Theses => Protestant Reformation, Schmalkadic Wars |
| 1555 |
Peace of Augsburg - German princes choose either Catholic or Lutheran |
| 1588 |
Spanish Armada - Spain attacked England, England won under Phillip II |
| 1600s |
Age of Absolutism |
| 1618-48 |
30 Years' War - Catholics vs. Protestants, France won, included all but Britain |
| 1648 |
Treaty of Westphalia - Ended 30 and 80 Years' Wars, Catholics Lutherans and now Calvinists all equal |
| 1633 |
Scientific Revolution - Galileo and heliocentric, Kepler and eliptical orbts, Bacon and scientific method |
| 1688-89 |
Glorious Revolution - Deposed of James II, English Bill of Rights limited the monarchy |
| 1700 |
War of Spanish Succession begins with death of Charles II and appointment of grandson Philip V |
| 1701-13 |
War of Spanish Succession over Spanish throne resulting in a shift in balance of power, Reign of Frederick I of Prussia |
| 1740-48 |
War of Austrian Succession - Prussia (Frederick II) gained Silesia |
| 1754/6-1763 |
French and Indian Wars, Seven Years' War |
| 1750-1850 |
Industrial Revolution |
| 1789 |
Fall of the Bastile => French Revolution |
| 1815 |
Battle of Waterloo => Fall of Napolean Bonaparte |
| 1848 |
European Revolutions - all except Britain, Poland, Netherlands, and Serbia |
| 1871 |
Unification of Italy and Germany |
| 1900s |
2nd Industrial Revolution - Chemicals, automobile, plane |
| 1914 |
Assassination of Ferdinand => Start of WWI |
| 1917 |
Russian Revolution => End of Tsar Nicholas II |
| 1918 |
German surrender, Versailles |
| 1929 |
Crash of stock market => Great Depression |
| 1939 |
Hitler attacks Poland => Start of WWII, Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact |
| 1945 |
End of WWII, Cold War Begins, Yalta |
| 1968 |
Student upheaval, Vietnam War climax, Prague Spring (Dubcek), President Nixon |
| 1989-91 |
Fall of Berlin Wall and Communism |
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