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| Date | Event(s) |
|---|---|
| 1347-1348 | Black Plague |
| 1378-1415 | Great Schism |
| 1453 | Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Empire |
| 1492 | Spanish Reconquista: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain defeat the Moors at Granada |
| 1495 | Michelangelo’s David |
| 1517 | Martin Luther’s 95 Theses |
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy (Henry VIII of England) |
| 1555 | Peace of Augburg: “The religion of the prince is the religion of the state” |
| 1571 | Battle of Lepanto: Peak of Spanish Power |
| 1572 | Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: start of the French Wars of Religion |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada defeated by the English |
| 1598 | Edict of Nantes (Henry IV of Navarre) |
| 1632 | Galileo called before the papal inquisition |
| 1648 | Treaty of Westphalia ends the 30 years war |
| 1649 | Charles I of England executed (Juliana Can’t Chew Juice = James Charles Charles James) |
| 1685 | Louis XIV Revokes the Edict of Nantes |
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution followed by English Bill of Rights |
| 1690 | 2nd Treatise of Government by John Locke |
| 1713 | Treaty of Utrecht Pragmatic Sanction |
| 1715 | Death of Louis XIV |
| 1721 | End of the Great Northern War (Peter the Great) |
| 1756 | Seven Years War |
| 1762 | Social Contract by Rousseau |
| 1776 | The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 1780s | First Industrial Revolution (British textiles) |
| 1789 | Fall of the Bastille |
| 1793 | Reign of Terror |
| 1804 | Napoleon becomes emperor of France |
| 1815 | Battle of Waterloo |
| 1832 | Great Reform Bill |
| 1846 | Corn Laws Repealed |
| 1848 | Communist Manifesto |
| 1852 | Napoleon III rises to power after turmoil in France |
| 1870-71 | Unification of Italy and Germany; Paris Commune |
| 1871 | Charles Darwin publishes Decent of Man |
| 1884 | Berlin Conference |
| 1894 | DREYFUS AFFAIR |
| 1914 | Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand --> WWI |
| 1917 | Bolshevik Revolution in Russia |
| 1919 | Treary of Versailles |
| 1922 | March on Rome |
| 1923 | French Occupation of the Ruhr --> German inflation |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash --> Great Depression |
| 1933 | Hitler Becomes the Chancellor of Germany |
| 1934 | Great Purge under Stalin |
| 1939 | Germany invades Poland --> World War II |
| 1945 | Atomic bombs dropped in Japan, ending WWII |
| 1945 | United Nations |
| 1956 | Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” |
| 1957 | Sputnik |
| 1968 | USSR Invades Czechoslovakia |
| 1979 | Soviets Invade Afghanistan |
| 1980 | USA Boycotts Moscow Olympics |
| 1989 | Berlin Wall Falls |
| 1991 | Fall of the USSR |
| 1993 | Maastricht Treaty creates the European Union |