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All The Dates You Would Ever Care to Know . It starts…. 1434-1494 – rule of the Medici Family 1450 – Johannes Gutenberg, printing press 1451-1506- Christopher Columbus 1452 – 1519 – da Vinci 1453 – Ottomans capture Constantinople, end of 100 years war 1453-1471 War of the Roses
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It starts… • 1434-1494 – rule of the Medici Family • 1450 – Johannes Gutenberg, printing press • 1451-1506- Christopher Columbus • 1452 – 1519 – da Vinci • 1453 – Ottomans capture Constantinople, end of 100 years war • 1453-1471 War of the Roses • 1455 – Bible printed by Gutenberg • 1466-1536 - Erasmus • 1469-1492 – Rule of Lorenzo de Medici • 1469-1527 – Machiavelli • 1473-1543 - Copernicus • 1478-1529- Castiglione
1479 – Pazzi Conspiracy • 1480 – began Spanish Inquisition • 1480-1521- Magellan • 1483-1546- Martin Luther • 1491-1556- Ignatius Loyola • 1492 – Reconquista, Ferdinand and Isabella unify Spain, Columbus sails to America • 1493 – Treaty of Tordesillas • 1498 – Savonarola burned at the stake • 1500-1527 – High Renaissance • 1503-1513 – Pope Julius II • 1509 – Erasmus, Praise of Folly • 1513 – The Prince • 1516- More, Utopia, Concordat of Bologna
1517- Luther 95 Theses • 1519-1522 – Magellan circumnavigates the globe • 1519-1556 – Charles V is the Holy Roman Emperor • 1520- Luther, Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation • 1521- Diet of Worms, start of Hapsburg-Valois Wars • 1524-1525- peasants revolt in Germany • 1527- Charles V sacks Rome • 1528-Castiglione, Book of the Courtier • 1529- Colloquy of Marburg summoned, Turks siege Vienna
1533- Henry VIII issues Act in Restraint of Appeals • 1533-1592- Montaigne • 1534- Henry VIII issues Act of Submission of the Clergy and Act of Supremacy, Rabelais published Gargantua and Pantagruel • 1536- Luther, Institutes of a Christian Religion • 1540- Society of Jesus formed • 1541- Calvin’s theocracy in Geneva • 1542- Holy Office publishes Index of Prohibited Books • 1543- Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
1545-1563- Council of Trent; End of Reformation • 1546-1616- Shakespeare • 1547-1616- de Cervantes • 1548- Loyola, Spiritual Exercises • 1549-Cranmer, Book of Common Prayer • 1550-1725- Baroque movement • 1555- Peace of Augsburg
1556-1598- Philip II King of Spain • 1556-1603- Elizabeth I of England • 1559- Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis • 1564-1642- Galileo Galilei • 1572- St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre • 1579- Peace of Utrecht • 1588- Defeat of Spanish Armada • 1588-1679- Thomas Hobbes
1562-1598- War of Three Henrys • 1598- Edict of Nantes • 1598-1613- Russia’s “Time of Troubles” • 1603- Elizabeth dies, end of Renaissance • 1603- Dutch East India Co. • 1605- Bacon’s Advancement of Learning, Gunpowder Plot • 1611- 1st publication of King James Bible • 1614- French Estates General Meets • 1648-1660- Fronde
1616- Copernicus’s book placed on index of prohibited books • 1618-1648- 30 Years War • 1624-1643- Richelieu dominates government • 1625-1649- Charles V rules England • 1626- Charles I dissolves Parliament • 1628- Petition of Right • 1630- Puritans settle America • 1632- Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning 2 Chief World Systems • 1640- English Long Parliament is summoned • 1640-1688- Frederick William the Great
1642-1649- English Civil War • 1643-1715- Reign of Louis XIV • 1648- Peace of Westphalia, Charles I beheaded • 1648-1660-Fronde • 1650- William of Orange, start of Agricultural Revolution • 1651- British Navigation Acts • 1660- Restoration in England • 1673- Test Act
1688-89- Glorious Revolution • 1663-83- Colbert’s mercantilism in France • 1665- Plague in England • 1666- Great Fire in England • 1682-1725- Rule of Peter the Great in Russia • 1685- Edict of Fontainebleau (revoke Nantes & name of a hotel in Miami • 1686- Fontenelle, Conversation on Plurality of Worlds
1687- Newton’s Principia • 1689- Montesquieu born • 1690- Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2nd Treatise of Civil Gov. • 1690-1780- Enlightenment • 1694- Birth of Voltaire • 1697- Bayle’s Dictionary
1700-1721- Russia wages Great Northern War • 1721- Act of Settlement in England, Tull (seed drill) • 1701-1713- War of Spanish Succession • 1702- Peter the Great forms St. Petersburg • 1713- Peach of Utrecht, Pragmatic Sanction (Charles V) • 1713-1740- Fredrick William I rules Prussia • 1718- end of war b/t Hapsburg and Ottomans (Haps win) • 1721- Montesquieu The Persian Letters
1733- Kay, flying shuttle • 1739- War of Jenkins’s Ear • 1740- Frederick II comes to power in Prussia • 1740-48- War of Austrian Succession • 1748- Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws, Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle • 1750- Population Explosion • 1751 – Encyclopedia, Diderot and d’Alembert • 1756-1763- Seven Years War
1759- Candide, Voltaire • 1762- Social Contract, Rousseau • 1763- Treaty of Paris to end 7 years war • 1772- 1st partitioning of Poland • 1775-1783- American Revolution • 1776- Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith • 1781- Joseph II abolishes serfdom • 1789 (BIG YEAR) – Estates General called by Louis XVI • Tennis Court Oath • Declaration of the Right of Man • 3rd estate becomes National Assembly • Storming of the Bastille • Women march to Versailles
1791- Declaration of Pillnitz • 1793-1794- Reign of Terror • 1799-1815- Napoleonic Era • 1801- Concordat of Bologna • 1803- Louisiana Purchase • 1804- Napoleonic Code • 1805- Battle of Trafalgar • 1812- Grand Army in Russia • 1814-15- Congress of Vienna • 1815- Waterloo
1830-48- Louis Philippe of France • 1839-41- Second Opium War • 1842- Treaty of Nanking • 1845-50- Irish potato famine • 1847- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx • 1848- Rebellion in France • 1850-65- Lord Palmerston • 1853-1856- Crimean War • 1855-65- Alexander II • 1855-56- Concert of Europe failed • 1857-58- Sepoy Mutiny • 1859- Darwin, Plombieres, On Liberty • 1861- Russian serfs freed • 1862-1890- Bismarck in power • 1863- Prussian-Danish War
1864-71- Unification of Germany • 1866- Austro-Prussian War • 1867- Marx’s Das Capital, Reform Bill (GB), Ausgleich • 1869- Suez Canal completed • 1870’s- start of New Imperialism, Balkan Crisis(Pan Slavism) • 1870-71- Franco-Prussian War, Paris Commune • 1875- Third French Republic • 1877-78- Russo-Turkish War • 1878- Congress of Berlin
1883- Fabian Society • 1884- Reform Act (GB) • 1888-1918- William II • 1887-89- Boulanger Crisis • 1892- Fashoda Crisis • 1894- Dreyfus Affair • 1894-95- Sino-Japanese War • 1896- Kruger Telegram • 1899-1902- Boer War • 1900- Boxer Rebellion
1902- Imperialism, Hobson & Anglo-Japanese Alliance • 1904- Entente Cordial, Russo- Japanese War • 1905- Einstein, Theory of Relativity • 1907- Triple Entente formed • 1908- First Balkan War • 1914- Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated • 1915- Lusitania sunk
1917- Germany declared unrestricted U-boat warfare, Balfour Note, Dec Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russian Revolution, Zimmerman Telegram • 1918- Wilson, 14 points, Treaty of Versailles • 1920- Mussolini has control, communists assume control of Russia • 1923- Ruhr Crisis, Russia renamed Soviet Union USSR • 1924- Lenin dies, Dawes Plan • 1926- Germany joins League of Nations
1928- Kellogg-Briand Pact • 1929- Great Depression hits US • 1933- March Enabling Act • 1934-38- Great Terror in Russia • 1935- Stresa Front, Italian invasion of Ethiopia • 1936- Spanish Civil War, Rome-Berlin Axis • 1937- Anti-Comintern Pact • 1938- Kristallnacht • 1939- Germany invades Czechoslovakia, start of WWII, Russo-German Nonaggression Pact
1941- Lend Lease Act, Atlantic Charter • 1942- Grand Alliance formed, Battle of Stalingrad • 1943- Casablanca Conference, Tehran Conference • June 6 1944- D-Day • 1944-45- Battle of the Bulge • 1945- Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference • 1946- Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech • 1947- containment begins, Marshall Plan • 1948-49- Berlin Crisis, Airlift • 1949- NATO formed
1953- Stalin dies • 1955- Warsaw Pact created • 1960’s- Civil Rights Movements, Space Race, The Beatles • 1961- Berlin War torn down, Russians first to orbit Earth • 1963- Freidan, The Feminine Mystique • 1969- American land first person on moon • 1970’s- Détente, Stagflation, Women’s movement RCC opposes abortion and divorce
1971- collapse of postwar monetary system • 1973-79- OPEC oil prices increase • 1979- Soviets invade Afghanistan, Pope John Paul II electrifies Poland • 1980s- US military buildup, growth of debt • 1980- Solidarity in Poland • 1985- Gorbachev takes powera) glasnostb) perestroika • 1988- Economic crisis in Poland • 1989- Unification of Germany, Revolutions in Eastern Europe
1990- end of Soviet Union • 1991- Warsaw Pact dissolved • 1991-95- War in former Yugoslavia • 1993- European Community becomes European Union • 1995- Dayton Peace Accords • 1996- Dolly the first sheep is cloned