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AP Euro Timeline
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Updated:
9 May 2018
Pink= Texts Blue= People Tan= Treaties, Congresses, or Councils Red= Major Movements Orange= All other Events
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VE Day
Hundred Years' War
Little Ice Age
Black Death Appears
Babylonian Captivity of Papacy
John Wycliffe Born
Great Schism
Council of Constance
Printing Press invented
Dante's Divine Comedy Written
Petrarch begins ideas of Humanism
Jan Van Eyck Born
Brunelleschi Born
Botticelli Born
Leonardo da Vinci Born
Michelangelo Born
Raphael Born
Constantinople Falls
War of the Roses Begins
Reconquista Begins
Charles V Reigns
Columbus reaches New World
Balboa discovers Pacific
Revolutions in Europe
French Serfdom Abolished
British Slave Trade Abolished
British takeover of India completed
Zollverein Founded
Great Famine in Ireland Begins
First Public Health Law in Britain
Rousseau's Social Contract and Emile Written
Papacy dissolves Jesuits
Smith's Wealth of Nations Written
Wollstonecraft's Vindication on the Rights of Women Written
Malthus' Essay of the Principle of Population Written
Napoleon signs Concordat with Church
Spencer's Social Darwinism Begins
Marx's Communist Manifesto Written
Hargreave's Spinning Jenny
Edward Jenner made the Smallpox Vaccine
Watt's Steam Engine invented
Arkwright's Water Frame invented
Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia Written
Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame Written
Mozart Born
Beethoven Born
Second French Empire Begins
Crimean War Starts
Unification of Italy Begins
Bismark leads Germany
Third French Republic Begins
Congress of Berlin
Scramble for Africa Begins
Dreyfus Affair Begins
Russo-Japanese War
WWI Begins
Bolshevik Revolution Begins
Treaty of Versailles
Mussolini Seizes Power
Stalin comes to power
Hitler comes to power
Rome-Berlin Axis
Spanish Civil War
Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact
WWII Begins
UN Founded
Cold War Begins
Israel Founded
Communist Takeover of China
Korean War Begins
De-Stalinization under Kruschchev
Bread Riots in Russia
Women's suffrage in Britain Begins
Second Industrial Revolution Begins
Russian Serfs Emancipated
Property Rights for Women in Britain
Holocaust Starts
Marshall Plan
EEC Founded
Marx's Das Capital Written
Public Education in France Starts
Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace
Existentialism Emerged
Revival of Christianity
De Beauvoir's The Second Sex Written
Great Exhibition in London
Freud Born
Darwin's Origin of the Species Written
Pasteur develops Germ Theory
Mendeleev developed periodic table
Trans-Siberian Railroad created
Marie Curie discovers Radium
Electrical Industry Begins
First Airplane Flight
Submarine Warfare invented
Einstein develops Theory of Realitivity
Magellan's Circumnavigation
Treaty of Tordesillas
Machiavelli's "The Prince" Written
Thomas More's "Utopia" Written
Luther's 95 Theses Posted
Henry VII Breaks with Rome
Jesuits Founded
Council of Trent
Peace of Augsburg
Copernicus Born
Galileo Born
Kepler Born
Renaissance Begins
Baroque Movement Begins
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Edict of Nantes
30 Years War Begins
Spanish Armada Defeated
English Civil War Starts
Peace of Westphalia
Louis XIV Reigns
Fronde in France
British East India Company Founded
English Poor Law
Dutch East India Company Founded
Hugenot revolt
Francis Bacon Born
Descartes Born
Peter Rubens Born
Diego Velasquez Born
Shakspeare Born
Rembrandt Born
Vermeer Born
Michel de Montaigne Born
Protectorate in England
English Monarchy Restored
Ottoman Siege of Vienna
Glorius Revolution Begins
Peter the Great Reigns
War of Spanish Succession
Peace of Utrecht
Frederick William I Reigns
Louis XV Born
Maria Theresa Reigns
Seven Years' War Begins
English Agricultural Revolution Begins
Enclosure Movement Begins
Edict of Nantes Revoked (Fountainbleu)
Montesquieu Born
Newton's Principia Mathematica Written
Jethro Tull Born
Steam Engine Developed
Crop Rotation Introduced (Townsend)
Bach Born
Enlightenment Begins
Catherine the Great Regins
Partition of Poland
Louis XVI Reigns
French Revolution Begins
Congress of Vienna
Greece Wins Independence
Reform Bill of 1832
Corn Laws Repealed (Chartists)
Radar invented
First Public Radio Broadcast
U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs
Watson and Crick discover Double Helix
Russian Satellite in Orbit
Realism in Art/Literature
Tolstoy's War and Peace Written
Impressionism in Art
Kipling's White Man's Burden Written
Joyce's Ulysses Written
Dadaism and Surrealism in Art
Picasso's Guernica Created
Orwell's 1984 Written
Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago Written
Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
Cultural Purge in USSR
Cubism in Art
Berlin Wall Built
Prague Spring
Soviet's Invade Afghanistan
Detente Begins
Solidarity Movement Begins
Persian Gulf War
USSR Dissolves
Civil War in Yugoslavia Begins
Separatist War in Chechnya Begins
9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Afghanistan War
Iraq War
Feminist Movement
Oil Crisis
Maastricht Treaty
Euro Enters Circulation
Financial Crisis Begins
Great Depression Begins
EU Formed
Pope John Paul II Serves
Pope Benedict XVI Serves
Pope Francis Serves
Space Race Begins
Russian cosmonaut first to orbit globe
American astronaut first to moon
Computer revolution
Pentium processor invented
First genetically cloned sheep
Global warming concerns
first hybrid car
Concerns over Global Warming Begin
First Cloned Sheep
The Beatles
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique Written
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Written
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