AP Euro 1450 - 1799

Renaissance

1450

• Humanism

Gutenburg Bible

1455

• Impact it has on Europe
• Impact on Protestant Reformation

New Monarchies

1479

• Frederick and Isabella
  • Importance of kings
• Henry VII - Star Chamber

Age of Exploration

1490

Gold, glory, God

Great Renaissance Art

Period: 1498 to 1511

• Da Vinci
  • Last Supper
  • Virturian Man
    • Michelangelo
    • David
    • Raphael
    • School of Athens
    • Madonna and Child

Eramus

1511

"Praise of Folly"
Starts renaissance writing

Renaissance Writing

1513

Machiavelli - The Prince
Thomas More - Utopia
Castiglione - Book of Courtiers
Own vernacular
Focus on society = civic humanity

Martin Luther (KNOW THIS YEAR)

1517

Consubstantiation vs.transubstiation
Reasons why
Changes to church
Wycliffe Lolards

Charles V

1519

Holy Roman Empire - condems Luther

Age of Exploration

1519

Cortes = Mexico
Magella

German Peasants Revolt

1524

Religion and politics - new ideas are being used.
Failed - until French Revolution

Henry VIII

1533

Marries Anne Boleyn

Act of Supremacy (SUPER IMPORTANT)

1534

Henry VII becomes head of Church

John Calvin

1536

Institutes Calvinism
No nothing, just praying.
Most influential religion in Europe

Copernicus

1543

Wrote about Heavenly Spheres = geocentric theory

Council of Trent (KNOW IT)

1545

Emphasizes Catholic doctrine and the 7 sacraments
No longer need to pay for indulgences.

Reign of Mary Tudor

1553

Bloody Mary
Tries to re-establish Cathlocism

Peace of Augsburg (KNOW IT)

1555

Will allow the princes to pick Calvinism or Lutherism in the Holy Roman Empire

Phillip II

1556

Spain
Married to Mary Tudor
Very Catholic - tried to force it on his people

Reign of Elizabeth I

1558

Go ladies!

French Wars of Revolution

1562

Catholic leaders
Protestant Hugenots

Netherlands Revolts against Spain

1567

William of Orange leads

St. Bartholomew Massacre

1572

In France

Defeat of Spanish Armada

1588

:)

Henry IV

1589

France = Henry of Navane
*Start of absolutism

Edict of Nantes

1598

France = Catholic
Protestant = own towns rule and practice freely

Elizabeth I Dies

1603

Stuart dynasty begins
James I

Sir Francis Bacon

1605

Father of Empricism = experimentation

Kepler

1609

Elliptical patterns

Start of Galileo

1610

Doesn't really get in trouble; just appeared

Death of Henry IV

1610

Rise of Louis XIII with Richelieu.

30 Years War

1618

Embraces both politics and religion.

Defenestration of Prague

1618

Charles I

1625

Becomes king of England

Petition of Right

1628

Charles wants $$$ to go to war.

Dissolving of Parliament

1629

Galileo's Trial

1633

Big deal
Church is fighting a lot of things

Rene Descartes

1637

Starts writing
Deducitve reasoning

Frederick William the Great Elector

1640

Starts to see the rise of Prussia

English Civil War begins

1642

Charles will be beheaded
Oliver Cromwell
New Model Army
Roundheads win

Louis XIV

1643

Colbert - financial advisor

Fronde

1648

French Civil War

Peace of Westphalia

1648

Puts an end to the wars of religion
Destroys Holy Roman Empire
Rise of Austria and Prussia

Charles I is executed

1649

Start Commonwealth under Cromwell

Leviathan

1651

Thomas Hobbes

Restoration

1660

"Merry Old England"
Charles II takes over
Test Act - no Catholic will take the throne

Jethro Tull

1674

Makes the seed plow
*Agricultural revolution

Charles "Turnip" Townsend

1674

Crop rotation

Peter the Great

1682

Absolute Era

James II

1685

Takes over England
Revokes the Edict of Nantes - Louis XIV

Newton

1687

Publishes Gravity

Glorious Revolution (KNOW THIS)

1688

Mary and William take the English throne

English Bill of Rights (KNOW THIS)

1689

Would late come to use in the American Revolution

John Locke

1690

War of Spanish Succession

1701

Wars of Louis XIV
*Treaty of Utrecht

Louis XIV Dies

1715

Louis XV takes over

Table of Ranks (KNOW THIS)

1722

Russia

Maria Theresa becomes Queen

1740

*Pragmatic Sanction
Frederick II becomes king of Prussia
War of Austrian Succession

Montesquieu

1748

3 branches
Checks and Balances

West Minster Convention

1756

France changes sides in Austrian Succession
7 Years War

Enclosure Act

1761

Society changes - each man for their own
Rise in Capitalism

Catherine the Great

1762

Takes over

Start of Industrial Revolution

Period: 1765 to 1769

Only in England
Spinning Jenny
Steam Engine
Stops after revolution

3 Partition of Poland

Period: 1772 to 1795

Poland no longer exists

Pugachev Revolution

1773

Pugachev doesn't think Catherine should be Czar

Louis XVI

1774

Takes Throne

Wealth of Nations

1776

Capitalism
Laizze Fair economy

Joseph II

1781

Religious toleration
Freedom of Serfs

Assembly of Notable

1788

If nobles see what is happening they will donate - they don't

Calling to Arms

Period: 1789 to 1789

General Estate - National Assembly - Tennis Court Oath - Storming of Bastille - Great Fear - August Decree - Declaration of Men and Citizens - Women's March

Constitution of 1791

1791

Legislative Assembly
Consitituon of Clergy

1st Coalition

1792

1st Representation

1793

National Convention
Reign of Terror
Execution of king

Constitutional Directory

1795

Consulate

1797

Napoleon Comes In

1799