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