AP Euro Timeline

By harrietm
  • Period: 1378 to 1382

    The Ciompi Revolt in Florence

  • 1434

    Medici rule in Florence by Cosimo de’ Medici

  • 1454

    Treaty of Lodi allies Milan, Naples, and Florence

  • 1492

    Columbus lands on Hispaniola

  • 1494

    Charles VIII of France invades Italy

  • 1495

    League of Venice unites Venice, Milan, Papal States, and Spain against France

  • 1498

    Savonarola controls Florence

  • 1499

    Louis XII invades Milan

  • 1513

    The Holy League defeats the French

  • 1513

    Machiavelli writes The Prince

  • 1515

    Francis I leads the 3rd french invasion of Italy

  • 1517

    Luther posts ninety-five theses against indulgences

  • 1519

    Charles I of Spain elected Holy Roman Emperor

  • 1521

    Papal bull excommunicates Luther for heresy and Diet of Worms condemns Luther

  • 1521

    Cortes conquers Aztecs

  • 1525

    Peasants' Revolt in Germany

  • 1527

    Sack of Rome by imperial soldiers

  • 1529

    Reformation Parliament convenes

  • 1529

    Marburg Colloquy btwn Luther and Zwingli

  • 1531

    Formation of Protestant Schmalkadic League

  • 1532

    Parliament passes the submission of the clergy

  • 1533

    Henry VIII weds Anne Boleyn; Convocation invalidates marriage of Catherine of Aragon

  • Period: 1533 to

    Reign of Ivan the Terrible

  • 1534

    Act of Sucession makes Anne Boleyn’s heirs legitimate, Act of Supremacy “head of church of England”

  • 1536

    Calvin arrives in Geneva

  • 1539

    Henry VIII imposes the Six Articles

  • 1540

    Jesuits recognized by pope

  • 1543

    Publication of On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

  • 1546

    Luther dies

  • 1547

    Armies of Charles V Schmaldike League

  • 1547

    Edward VI succeeds to throne (Protestant)

  • 1549

    First Act of Uniformity- Book of Common Prayer

  • Period: 1553 to 1558

    Mary Tudor restores Catholic Doctrine

  • 1555

    Peace of Augsburg recognizes rights of Lutherans

  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I fashions an Anglican reliigous settlement

  • 1559

    Francis II succeeds to throne under Catherine de Medici

  • 1563

    Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation

  • 1572

    Saint Bartholemew’s Day Massacre

  • Period: to

    “Time of Troubles”

  • Assaianation of Henry II brings Hugenot Henry of Navarre to power

  • Henry IV embraces Catholicism

  • Edict of Nantes

  • James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England

  • Publication of The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon

  • Publication of The New Astronomy by Johannes Kepler

  • Henry IV assainated

  • Publication of The Starry Messenger by Galileo

  • King James Bible

  • Michael Romanov becomes tsar

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years' War

  • Publication of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon

  • Charles I ascends English throne

  • Petition of Right

  • Charles I dissolves Parliament and embarks on eleven rules of personal rule

  • Publication of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo

  • Publication of Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes

  • Short Parliament, Long Parliament

  • Period: to

    Reign of Fredrick William the Great Elector

  • English Civil War

  • Louis XVI ascends the French throne regent Cardinal Mazarin

  • Period: to

    Cardinal Mazarin directs French Government

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Charles I of England executed

  • Fronde Revolt in France

  • Period: to

    Various Attempts at a Puritan Commonwealth in England

  • Period: to

    Fronde revolt

  • Publication of Leviathan by Hobbes

  • Charles II restored to English throne

  • Louis XVI commences personal rule

  • War of Devolution

  • Period: to

    War of Deevolution

  • Secret treaty of Dover between France and Great Britain

  • Parilament passes the Test Act

  • Period: to

    French War against Netherlands

  • Popish Plot

  • End of french war against Netherlands

  • Turkish siege of Vienna

  • Louis revokes Edict of Nantes

  • James II becomes king of England

  • Publication of Principia Mathematica by Newton

  • “Glorious Revolution”

  • War of League of Augsburg

  • Period: to

    War of the League of Augsburg

  • Peter the Great assumes personal rule

  • William and Mary ascend the English throne

  • Publication of Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke

  • Publication of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

  • Publication of Treatises of Government by John Locke

  • Russia captures Azov on the Black Sea

  • Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious published

  • European tour of Peter the Great

  • Peter puts down strelsty revolt

  • The Great Northern War btwn Russia and Sweden

  • Outbreak of War of Spanish Sucession

  • Acts of Settlement for Hanoverian sucession

  • Period: to

    Reign of Queen Anne last of the Stuarts

  • St. Petersburg founded

  • End of reign of Leopold I of Austria

  • Act of Union btwn England + Scotland

  • Russia defeats Sweden

  • Period: to

    Charles VI rules Austria and secures agreement to Pragmatic Sanction

  • Treaty of Utrecht ends war of Spanish sucession

  • Treaty of Utrecht

  • Period: to

    Fredrick William I bulids up miltary power of Prussia

  • George I becomes King of Britain

  • Death of Louis XIV

  • Charles XII of Sweden dies

  • Aleksei, son of Peter the Great dies suspicously

  • Wolff's Rational Thoughts published

  • Regency of Duke of Orleans

  • Peace of Nystad ends Great Northern War

  • Peter establishes a synod for Russian church

  • Robert Walpole dominates British politics

  • Montesquieu's Persian Letters published

  • Period: to

    Robert Walpole dominates British politics

  • Peter the Great estabishes table of ranks

  • Peter the Great dies

  • Period: to

    Reign of Catherine I

  • George II becomes king of Great Britain

  • Period: to

    Reign of Peter II

  • Period: to

    Reign of Anna of Russia

  • Voltaire's Letters on the English published

  • John Kay's flying Shuttle

  • Voltaire's Elements on the Philosophy of Newton published

  • War of Jenkins Ear

  • Maria Theresa succeeds to the Hapsburg throne

  • Frederick II violates the Pragmatic Sanction by invading Silesia

  • Outbreak of War of the Austrian Succession

  • Period: to

    Reign of Elizabeth of Russia

  • Cardinal Fleury serves as Louis Xv’s chief minister

  • Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws published

  • Hume's Inquiry into Human Nature published

  • Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle ends War of the Austrian Succession

  • Rousseau's Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences Voltaire's Letters on the English published

  • First volume Encyclopedia published, edited by Diderot

  • Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality published

  • Convention of Westminster

  • Outbreak of Seven Years' War

  • Voltaire's Candide published

  • George III become King of GB

  • Rousseau's Social Contract and Emilie published

  • Legislative Commission summoned in Russia

  • Period: to

    Reign of Catherine the Great

  • Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance published

  • Treaty of Paris concludes Seven Years War

  • Treaty of Hubertsburg

  • Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War

  • Voltaire's Philosphcial Dictionary published

  • Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishment published

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

  • Spining Jenny

  • Stamp Act repealed, Declaratory Act

  • Townshend Acts

  • War with Turkey and Russia begins

  • Watts' Steam Engine

  • Water Frame

  • Lord North becomes George III's chief minister

  • Boston Massacre

  • First Partition of Poland

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Period: to

    Pugachev's Rebellion

  • Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji ends war with Turkey

  • Intolerable Acts

  • First Continental Congress

  • Reorganization of local government in Russia

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Gibbon's Decline and the Fall of the Roman Empire published

  • Smith's Wealth of Nations published

  • Declaration of Independence

  • France enters war on side of U.S

  • Yorkshire Association Movement

  • Lessing's Nathan the Wise published

  • British forces surrender at Yorktown

  • Mendelssohn's On Ecclesiastical Power and Judaism published

  • Russia annexes Crimea

  • Treaty of Paris concludes American Revolution

  • Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" published

  • Catherine the Great issues the Charter of the Nobility

  • Power Loom

  • Period: to

    Unsuccessful Negotiations with Assembly of Notables in France

  • Louis XVI summons the Estates General

  • Great Fear in french Countryside

  • The Estates General opens at Versailles

  • The Third Estate calls itself National Constituent Assembly

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Fall of the Bastille

  • Nobles in France surrender feudal rights at National Assembly

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

  • Parisian Women's March on Versailles

  • Civil Consitution of the Clergy

  • Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman published

  • Kant's Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone published

  • Second Partition of Poland

  • Third Partition of Poland

  • Napoleon concludes the Treaty of Campo Formio