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A study stack for the dates in AP European History class.

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