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1440
Gutenberg Printing Press
The first mechanized printing press that allowed for faster production of books and therefore greater access -
Period: 1455 to 1487
War of Roses
Civil wars fought over the English throne fought between Plantagenets Lancaster, Tudor, against York -
1478
Spanish Inquisition
Established by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castille, built to maintain catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms -
1487
Kramer "Malleus Malificarm"
"Hammer of Witches" best known treatise about witchcraft. Its against witchcraft and calls it a crime and speaks of ways to torture suspected witches to gain confession. -
1492
Columbus sails
Columbus 'discovers' the 'new world', an event widely frowned upon today -
Period: 1501 to 1504
Michelangelo's "David"
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Period: 1503 to 1519
Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"
Da Vinki -
1509
Erasmus "In Praise of Folly"
Essay written in Latin that is a satirical attack on all aspects of humanity, including corruptions in the church -
1516
Thomas More "Utopia"
Socio-political satire written in Latin, reminiscent of life in monasteries -
1519
Charles V HRE Emporer
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1521
Martin Luther King excommunicated
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Period: 1524 to 1525
German Peasant Revolt
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1540
Ignatius founds Jesuits
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1553
Mary I made Queen of England
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Period: 1562 to
French Wars of Religion
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Period: 1568 to
Dutch Revolt
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1572
St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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Spanish Armada
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Defenestration of Prague
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Galileo on trial
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Period: to
Bernini's "Ecstasy of St Theresa"
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Peace of Westphalia
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Execution of Charles I
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Hobbs "Leviathan" published
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Vermeer "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
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Dutch Republic Golden Age ends
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Period: to
Glorious Revolution
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Peace of Utrecht
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John Kay's Flying Shuttle
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War of Austrian Succession begins
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European Witch hunts end
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Period: to
Diderot's Encyclopedia
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Treaty of Paris
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Period: to
Pugachev's Rebellion
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Luddites established
weavers and textile workers who objected to mechanization of jobs, names after Ned Ludd who was rumored to have destroyed a textile apparatus -
Tennis Court Oath
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Period: to
French Revolution
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Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication..."
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King Louis XVI executed
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Robespierre exectued
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Period: to
Congress of Vienna
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Battle of Waterloo
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Mary Shelley "Frankenstein"
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Greek Revolt
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George Stephenson's Rocket
Most advanced steam powered locomotor of its time -
Delacroix "Liberty leading the People"
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Period: to
November Uprising (Polish Revolt)
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British medical Society established
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Slavery abolished in British Empire
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Period: to
Opium Wars
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Period: to
Irish Potato Famine
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Louis Napoleon elected
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Marx/Engels "Communist Manifesto" published
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Period: to
Crimean War
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Period: to
Monet Paints
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Darwin prints "Origin of Species"
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Louis Pasteur Germ Theory published
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Bismarck's Iron and Blood speech
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Period: to
Van Gogh Paints
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Period: to
Berlin Conference
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Bram Stoker "Dracula"
vampire
the gothic ever
gay -
Marie Curie begins experimenting with Radioactivity
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Bloody Sunday
St Petersburg, Russia. Unarmed demonstrators fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
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Battle of the Somme
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Battle of Vimy Ridge
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Treaty of Versaille
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Period: to
Paris Peace Conference
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Period: to
League of Nations
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Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
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Charlie Chaplin (The Little Dictator)
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Period: to
The Holocaust
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Period: to
Operation Barbarossa
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D-Day / Normandy Landings
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Bombing of Hiroshima
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Suez Crisis
British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Period: to
German Reunification
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Brexit
Exit of Britain from the EU