Absolute monarchy

Reign of Ivan the Terrible

Period: Jan 16, 1547 to Mar 28, 1584

Reign of Phillip II

Period: Jul 25, 1554 to Sep 13, 1598

Reign of Henry IV

Period: Jun 9, 1572 to May 14, 1610

Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Aug 23, 1572

Signing of edict of Nantes

Jan 1, 1598

Reign of James I

Period: Mar 24, 1603 to Mar 27, 1625

Cardinal Richelieu

Dec 18, 1606

Reign of Louis XIII

Period: May 14, 1610 to May 14, 1643

Thirty years war

Period: Jan 1, 1618 to Jan 1, 1648

English Civil War

Period: Aug 22, 1642 to Sep 3, 1651

Reign of Louis XIV

Period: May 14, 1643 to Sep 1, 1715

Peace of Westphalia

Oct 24, 1648

Oliver Cromwell

Period: Dec 25, 1653 to Sep 3, 1658

Restoration of English Crown

Period: Jan 1, 1660 to Jan 1, 1688

Charles II

Period: May 29, 1660 to Feb 6, 1685

Louis XIV takes full control of France

Jan 1, 1661

Palace of Versailles

Period: Jan 1, 1682 to Jan 1, 1789

Reign of Peter the Great

Period: May 7, 1682 to Feb 8, 1725

Glorious Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1688 to Jan 1, 1689

Bill of Rights 1689

Dec 16, 1689

War of the Spanish Sucession

Period: Jan 1, 1701 to Jan 1, 1714

Reign of Fredrick the Great

Period: May 31, 1740 to Aug 17, 1786

Reign of Maria Thresa

Period: Sep 13, 1745 to Aug 18, 1765