500 Years of European History

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    The Thirty Years' War

    The Thirty Years' War is a war that took place from 1618 to 1648 and had the Catholics vs the Protestants. This war took place around where present-day Germany is and had 8,000,000 casualties.
  • Napoleon Comes to Power

    Napoleon Comes to Power
    He conqured much of Europe and he was exiled to some remote British islands and died at the age of 51.
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo
    This battle was on June 18th 1815 in the then Netherlands but present-day Belgium. It was the French vs the British and the British were trying to kill Napoleon.
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    Greece Gains Independence from Ottoman Empire

    This event was about the Greeks trying to gain their independence from the Ottoman Emipire.
  • Greece Gains Independence from the Ottoman Empire

    1821-1832 This event had the Greeks trying to gain their independece from the Ottoman Empire.
  • British Empire abolished slavery

    in all british colonies with the exeption of territories in the possession of the East inda company but later was for all colonies and is still in act today
  • French Revolution of 1848

    This revolution is only one of the revolutions that happened in 1848 and it was the French people trying to overthrow their king.
  • Crimean War

    1853-1856 Was fought mainly with the Russians, British and French. This was caused from the Russian and France arguing over religion.
  • Russian Revolution

    The Russian Revolution took place in 1917 and it was about the collapse of Tsar Nicholas II's empire and the rise of the soviet union.
  • WWI

    It started when Franz Ferdiand of Austria was assassinted and ended with the treaty of Versailles in 1919 but Germany surrendered in 1918.