Ap European History

By CaseyKilburg
  • Apr 21, 1215

    Magna Carta

    The most important document in European and world history, started true democracy in GB
  • Period: May 14, 1305 to May 14, 1377

    Great Schism in Roman Catholic Church

  • May 14, 1321

    Divine Comedy begins vernacular literature

  • Period: Apr 9, 1337 to Apr 9, 1435

    Hundred Years War

  • Period: May 14, 1338 to May 14, 1453

    Hundred Years War between England and France

  • May 14, 1348

    Black Death enters Europe

  • May 14, 1370

    English Parliament begins meeting in current form

  • May 14, 1419

    Prince Henry forms navigators' school

  • May 14, 1450

    Renaissance begins

  • Period: May 14, 1450 to May 14, 1485

    War of the Roses in England

  • Period: May 15, 1487 to May 15, 1488

    Dias' voyage to Cape of Good Hope

  • May 14, 1492

    Unification of Spain completed

  • May 15, 1492

    Columbus lands in the Western Hemispere

  • May 15, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • May 15, 1497

    Cabot sails to North America

  • Period: May 15, 1497 to May 15, 1498

    Da Gama's first voyage to India

  • May 15, 1500

    Cabral claims Brazil

  • May 15, 1502

    Vespucci produces map of New World

  • Period: May 15, 1519 to May 15, 1522

    Magellan's expedition; Cortes captures Mexico

  • May 14, 1522

    Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation

  • May 15, 1524

    Verrazano sails to North America

  • May 14, 1525

    First German religious wars

  • May 14, 1529

    Marburg Colloquy

  • Period: May 15, 1530 to May 15, 1535

    Pizarro captures Peru

  • Period: May 15, 1533 to

    Ivan the Terrible rules Russia

  • May 14, 1534

    Act of Supremacy creates the Anglican Church

  • May 15, 1534

    Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River

  • May 14, 1536

    Calvin begins Geneva ministry

  • May 14, 1540

    Loyola forms the Society of Jesus

  • May 15, 1540

    Scientific Revolution begins

  • May 15, 1543

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

  • Period: May 14, 1545 to May 14, 1563

    Council of Trent reforms Roman Catholic Church

  • May 14, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • May 14, 1559

    Elizabethan Settlement

  • Period: May 14, 1562 to

    French Wars of Religion

  • Period: May 15, 1581 to

    Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

  • Edict of Nantes

  • James I brings Stuart rule to England

  • Jamestown established

  • Quebec established

  • Galileo, The Starry Messenger

  • Period: to

    Reign of Louis XIII in France

  • 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

  • Napoleon exiled to Elba

  • Napoleon returns/Defeated at Waterloo

  • 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

    Rule of Napoleon

  • First steam powered locomotive

  • Period: to

    Congress of Vienna

  • 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

  • Revolutions of 1848 across Europe Louis Napoleon elected

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Japan invades Manchuria

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

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

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

  • Period: to

    Spanish Civil War

  • Japan invades China

  • Anschluss; Munich Conference; Germany takes Sudetenland

  • Germany invades Czechoslovakia; Hitler-Stalin Pact; Germany invades Poland

  • 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

  • Basis for UN agreed apon by 5 charter nations

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

  • Great Britian becomes a welfare state

    Becomes a welfare state with the labour party, reforms: nationalization of bank of England, national insurance and health service act, social security and medical insurance, socialized medicine(doctors work in state hospitals), decrease expensises abroad, ended empire

  • Truman Doctrine & Marshal plan GB gives independence to Pakistan and India

    Marshal plan gave low interest loan to countries being threatened by communism, GB sheds colonies because of WW2 expensises and being a welfare state

  • Jews proclaim new state in Isreal

    UN bought land from Muslims and sold it to Jews, lead by Ralph Bunch, Jews grew impatient and took land by force, confict ever since

  • Berlin airlift

    Stalin cut off west Berlin from west Germany, Truman sent many plans to deliver supplies to west Berlin, a success,

  • China falls to communism

    leader Mau Zedong also called peoples republic of china

  • NATO is formed

    North Atlantic treaty organization, U.S, Canada, western European countries, fought against spread of communism in western Europe

  • Republic of China established in Tiwan

    Leader Kaishizedong, safe U.S protects it

  • United Nations begins

    Internal peace keeping commity, created after WW2

  • Konrad Adenauer becomes first chancellor of west Germany

    Lead West Germant through economic miracle( West Germany goes from totalt destruction to 5th leading power)
  • Period: to

    Korean War

    North Korea lead by Kim Sun Ill communist supported by USSR, South Korea Sigmund Rhee democratic state supported by U.S., UN fought against North Korea & later on communist China, armistice declared, still this way today

  • Joseph Stalin dies

    creates power struggle, Khrushev becomes leader, destalinization

  • Warsaw pact is formed

    Soviet Union's response to NATO, defensive alliance to protect against the free world (democracies)

  • Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet Union

    Hungary revolted because they believed they would get some of the liberal reforms Soviet Union was getting, Khrushev crushed the revolt to show other satellites to get back into line

  • European common market forms

    meant to create free trade among European countries in attempt to become competition and trade with U.S & GB, first time Europe worked together

  • Bill Haley released first Rock n Roll hit

    Rock around the clock, originated in U.S., combination of African, spiritual, Jazz, country

  • Berlin Wall is built

    created after 2nd Berlin crisis by Khrushev
  • Period: to

    Vietnam war

    Vietnam wanted independence from France, Ho Chi Minh lead Vietnamese people who wanted freedom from France, created Vietmen, Dein Ben Phu worst defeat for France, result of war vietnam was split North communist & South democratic

  • Bay of Pigs

    U.S left men to die, hurt view of U.S, worst U.S defeat in cold war, paved way for cuban missile crisis

  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuba accepted soviet protection, U.S found Soviets taking Missile's to Cuba, U.S gives soviet ultimatum, brings to brink of nuclear war, U.S agrees to take missiles out of Turkey if Soviets take missiles out of Cuba,

  • Martin Luther King leads civil rights movement called march on washington

    Civil disobedience non violence resistence( rebeling without fighting), civil rights act, voting,

  • Palestine Liberation organization

    Formed by the Egyptions, believed only palestinians should live in Palestine, began striking terrorist attacks on Israel

  • Khrushchev removed from leadership of Soviet Union

    Brezhnev replaces him, he crushed the Prog Spring(revolts in czek)

  • Golf of Tonkin resolution escalates American involvement in Vietnam

    increases american involvement in Vietnam, law says the president can do whatever needs to be done to solve crisis in Vietnam, sends 500 troops

  • 6 day war

    War between Israel and Aran league, Arab were going to surprise attack Israel, but Israel surprised attacked them

  • Prog spring is crushed

    Crushed by Soviets (Brezchnev) in Czek, symbol to other satellites to get back in line

  • Water Gate scandal

    biggest scandal in U.S history, Nixon was president, people hired to get him elected, bugged the democrat room, paid to keep quiet

  • OPEC imbargo

    OPEC is the non industrial oil producing countries, 5% lessoil to west, gas rationing in the U.S,

  • Iran siezes 52 hostages

    Carter president, Ayatollohs followers stormed U.S embassy in Tyran, give ultimatum for U.S to send back the shah (old leader of Iran), Carter refuses, paid Iranians 7.9 billion to get back people

  • Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

    Communist try to take religon out of Afghanistan, ask USSR for help against Mujaheden, war hurts reputation of USSR, first step to fall of communism, soviet unions version of vietnam war

  • Solidarity movement begins in Poland

    independent labor movement lead by Lachwelsa, ended when she was arrested, outlawed, military control took over

  • Great Britian wins Faulklands

    Thatcher gets islands back from argentina, creates pride for British people, most popular thing she does

  • Collapse of communism begins in Czek

    Czek splits up into Czek republic and Slovokia

  • Germany is reunified

    Yelstin destroys Berlin wall, unified as Germany

  • Soviet Union begins to break apart

    Gorbachev issues reforms and people demanded more and republics began to break away, Cu De Ta staged by communist supporters pushed people to completely leave the ideas of communism, Yelstin told people to push away from communism

  • Communism ends in Soviet Union and Russia is formed

    military dictatorship desguised as a democratic republic, Puten president, Mendelive vice president

  • First Persian Gulf War

    Provided first opportunity for U.S and Russia to work together since Cold war, Iraq invaded Kuwait, U.s and Russia against Iraq

  • European Union created

    Maastricht treaty created the common currency

  • Terrorist attack on U.S

    Osama Bin ladin, Al Cueda

  • U.S invades Iraq

    response to 9/11

  • World Wide Economic collapse