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  • Apr 9, 1215

    Magna Carta

  • Period: Apr 19, 1305 to Apr 19, 1337

    Great Schism

    the crisis in the late medieval church when there were first two and then three popes; ended by the Council of Constance
  • Apr 9, 1321

    Divine Comedy vernacular begins

    Divine Comedy is basically the story of the soul's progression to salvation, a fundamental medieval preoccupation. The lengthy poem was divided into three major sections corresponding to the realms of the afterworld: hell, purgatory, and heaven or paradise. In the “Inferno” (see the box on p. 331), Dante is led by his guide, the Classical author Virgil, who is a symbol of human reason. But Virgil (or reason) can lead the poet only so far on his journey. At the end of “Purgatory,” Beatrice (the
  • Apr 19, 1348

    Black Death enters Europe

    the outbreak of plague (mostly bubonic) in the mid-fourteenth century that killed from 25 to 50 percent of Europe's population.
  • May 13, 1348

    Black Death enters Europe

  • May 13, 1370

    English Parliament begins meeting in current form

  • May 13, 1419

    Prince Henry forms navigators' school

  • May 13, 1450

    Renaissance begins

  • Period: May 13, 1450 to May 13, 1485

    War of Roses begins in England

  • Period: May 13, 1487 to May 13, 1488

    Dias' voyage to Cape of Good Hope

  • May 13, 1492

    Unification of Spain completed

  • May 13, 1492

    Columbus lands in the Western Hemispere

  • May 13, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • May 13, 1497

    Cabot sails to North America

  • Period: May 13, 1497 to May 13, 1498

    Da Gama's first voyage to India

  • May 13, 1500

    Cabral claims Brazil

  • May 13, 1502

    Vespucci produces map of New World

  • Period: May 13, 1519 to May 13, 1522

    Magellan's expedition; Cortes captures Mexico

  • May 13, 1522

    Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation

  • May 13, 1524

    Verrazano sails to North America

  • May 13, 1525

    First German religious wars

  • May 13, 1529

    Marburg Colloquy

  • Period: May 13, 1530 to May 13, 1535

    Pizarro captures Peru

  • Period: May 13, 1533 to

    Ivan the Terrible rules Russia

  • May 13, 1534

    Act of Supremacy creates the Anglican Church

  • May 13, 1534

    Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River

  • May 13, 1536

    Calvin begins Geneva ministry

  • May 13, 1540

    Loyola forms the Society of Jesus

  • May 14, 1540

    Scientific Revolution begins

  • May 14, 1543

    Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies; Vesalius, On the Fabric of the Human Body

  • Period: May 13, 1545 to May 13, 1563

    Council of Trent reforms Roman Catholic Church

  • May 13, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • May 13, 1559

    Elizabethan Settlement

  • Period: May 13, 1562 to

    French Wars of Religion

  • Period: May 13, 1581 to

    Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

  • Edict of Nantes

  • James I brings Stuart rule to England

  • Jamestown established

  • Quebec established

  • Period: to

    Reign of Louis XIII in France

  • Galileo, The Starry Messenger

  • Michael Romanov re-establishes czarist rule in Russia

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years War

  • Bacon develops inductive reasoning

  • Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood

  • Descartes develops deductive reasoning

  • Hohenzollerns come to power in Prussia

  • Period: to

    English Civil War

  • Period: to

    Reign of Louis XIV in France

  • Period: to

    Cromwell rules England

  • Restoration

  • Edict of Fontainebleu

  • Newton, Principia

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Period: to

    Peter the Great rules Russia

  • Period: to

    War of Spanish Succession

  • Period: to

    Frederick William I of Prussia

  • Enlightenment begins

  • Period: to

    Frederick the Great of Prussia

  • Period: to

    Maria Theresa of Austria

  • Period: to

    War of Austrian Succession

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws

  • Period: to

    Diderot and Encyclopedia

  • Period: to

    Seven Years War (French and Indian War in America)

  • Flying shuttle

  • Voltaire’s Candide

  • Rousseau’s The Social Contract and Emile

  • Period: to

    Catherine the Great of Russia

  • Treaty of Paris, 1763

  • Water Frame/mule

  • First Partition of Poland begins

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

  • Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

  • Period: to

    Joseph II of Austria

  • James Watt’s perfected steam engine

  • Treaty of Paris, 1783

  • Power loom

  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • Period: to

    Rule of Napoleon

  • First steam powered locomotive

  • Napoleon exiled to Elba

  • Period: to

    Congress of Vienna

  • Napoleon returns/Defeated at Waterloo

  • First of Corn Laws passed in Britain

  • Revolutions in Central and South America

  • Peterloo massacre

  • Period: to

    Greek revolt

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • European continental countries beginIndustrializing; Decembrist Revolt in Russia

  • July Revolution in France

  • Period: to

    Louis Philippe rules France

  • Reform Act passed in Great Britain

  • Grand National Consolidated Trades Union formed

  • Period: to

    Victorian Age in Great Britain

  • Chartist movement

  • Great potato famine in Ireland

  • Louis Napoleon elected president of the 2nd French Republic; The Communist Manifesto published

  • Revolutions of 1848 across Europe Louis Napoleon elected president of 2nd French Republic

  • Period: to

    Frankfurt Assembly in Germany

  • Great Exhibition in Great Britain

  • Emperor Napoleon III proclaims Second French Empire

  • Period: to

    Crimean War

  • Pateur develops germ theory

  • Period: to

    Unification of Italy

  • Origin of the Species published

  • Emancipation Proclamation in U S; Emancipation of the serfs in Russia

  • Period: to

    Civil War in the United States

  • Napoleon III installs Maximilian as emperor of Mexico

  • Period: to

    Unification of Germany

  • Maximilian removed as ruler of Mexico; Ausgleich in Austria creates Dual Monarchy; Dominion of Canada created

  • Descent of Man published; Napoleon III toppled from power

  • Third Fench Republic proclaimed

  • Congress of Berlin

  • Triple Alliance formed

  • Reform Act of 1884 in Great Britain

  • Wilhelm II becomes kaiser

  • Birth of nuclear physics; Start of American Progressive Era

  • Period: to

    Dreyfus Affair

  • Period: to

    Spanish American War

  • Period: to

    Boer War

  • Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams; Birth of modern volkism

  • Russo-Japanese War

  • Russian Revolution of 1905

  • Triple Entente formed

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated; World War I begins

  • Italy enters the war

  • U S enters the war; Russian Bolshevik Revolution

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; Americans enter the fighting; Armistice declared

  • Versailles Treaty

  • Period: to

    French policy of coersion in the Rhineland

  • France's Cartel of the Left: Lenin dies in Soviet Union

  • Mussolini establishes Fascism in Italy

  • Stock Market crash in US; Stalin becomes dictator of Soviet Union

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • New Deal begins in US; Hitler becomes Nazi dictator of Germany

  • Collapse of League of Nations; Germany occupies Rhineland; Rome-Berlin Axis Trea

  • Period: to

    Spanish Civil War

  • Japan invades China

  • Anschluss; Munich Conference; Germany takes Sudetenland

  • Germany invades Czechoslovakia; Hitler-Stalin Pact; Germany invades Poland starting World War II

  • Western Europe falls to Blitzkrieg; Battle of Britain begins

  • New Order/Final Solution begin in Germany; Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

  • Normandy invasion; Battle of the Bulge

  • Germany surrneders; Atomic bombs dropped on Japan; Japan surrenders

  • Basis for the United Nations agreed upon by 5 charter members

  • Great Britain becomes “welfare state”

  • Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Great Britain gives India and Pakistan independence

  • Jews proclaim new state in Israel

  • Period: to

    First Berlin blockade and Berlin airlift

  • China falls to the Communists; Republic of China established on Taiwan; United Nations begins; NATO forms; Konrad Adenauer becomes first chancellor or West Germany

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Joseph Stalin dies

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet Union

  • European Common Market forms; Bill Haley and the Comets release first “Rock and Roll” hit

  • Berlin wall constructed

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. leads Civil Rights “March on Washington”

  • Palestinian Liberation Organization formed: Khrushchev removed as leader of Soviet Union; Gulf of Tonkin resolution escalates American involvement in Vietnam

  • Six Day War in Middle East

  • Soviets crush “Prague spring” in Czechoslovakia

  • Watergate scandal paralyzes US; OPEC oil embargo shakes western economies

  • Iran seizes US embassy in Tehran with hostages: Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

  • Solidarity movement begins in Poland

  • Great Britain wins Falklands War

  • Collapse of communism begins in Czechoslovakia

  • Soviet Union begins to break apart; Germany is reunified

  • Communism ends in Soviet Union which becomes Russia again; First Persian Gulf War

  • European Union created

  • Terrorist attack on the US on 9/11; Coalition war on terrorists in Afghanistan

  • US invades Iraq

  • Worldwide eonomic collapse