AP European History

By cayleeann
  • Jul 20, 1215

    Magna Carta

  • Dec 24, 1305

    Great Schism

    1305-1377
  • Dec 24, 1321

    Divine Comedy

    begins vernacular literature
  • Dec 24, 1338

    Hundred Years War

    1338-1453
  • Dec 24, 1348

    Black Death

  • Dec 24, 1370

    English Parliament begins meeting in current form

  • Dec 24, 1419

    Prince Henry forms navigators' school

  • Dec 24, 1450

    Renaissance

  • Dec 24, 1450

    War of the Roses

    1450-1485
  • Dec 24, 1487

    Dias' voyage to Cape of Good Hope

  • Dec 24, 1492

    Unification of Spain

    completed
  • Dec 24, 1492

    Columbus lands in Western Hemisphere

  • Dec 24, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • Dec 24, 1497

    Cabot sails to NA

  • Dec 24, 1497

    De Gama's first voyage to India

  • Dec 24, 1500

    Cabral claims Brazil

  • Dec 24, 1502

    Vespucci produces map of New World

  • Dec 24, 1519

    Magellans Expedition

  • Dec 24, 1522

    Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation

  • Dec 24, 1524

    Verrezano sails to NA

  • Dec 24, 1525

    First German Religious Wars

  • Dec 24, 1529

    Marburg Colloquy

  • Dec 24, 1530

    Pizarro captures Pero

  • Dec 24, 1533

    Ivan the Terrible

    1533-1584
  • Dec 24, 1534

    Act of Supremacy- Creation of Anglican Church

  • Dec 24, 1534

    Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River

  • Dec 24, 1536

    Calvin

    begins Geneva ministry
  • Dec 24, 1540

    Loyola forms Society of Jesus

  • Dec 24, 1540

    Scientific Revolution begins

  • Dec 24, 1543

    On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies

  • Dec 24, 1545

    Council of Trent

    1545-1563
  • Dec 24, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Dec 24, 1559

    Elizabethan Settlement

  • Dec 24, 1562

    French Wars of Religion

    1562-1598
  • Dec 24, 1581

    Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

    1581-1672

  • Edict of Nantes

  • James I brings Stuart rule to England

  • Jamestown

  • Quebec established

  • Louis XIII

    1610-1643

  • The Starry Messenger

  • Romanov re-establishes czarist rule

  • 30 Years War

    1619-1648

  • Bacon- inductive reasoning

  • On the Motion of the Heart and Blood

  • Descartes develops deductive reasoning

  • Hohenzollerns come to power in Prussia

  • English Civil War

    1642-1648

  • Louis XIV

    1643-1715

  • Cromwell rules England

    1649-1658

  • Restoration

  • Edict of Fontainebleu

  • Newton, Principia

  • Peter the Great

    1689-1725

  • Glorious Revolution

    1702-1713

  • Frederick William I

    1713-1740

  • Enlightenment begins

  • Frederick the Great

    1740-1786

  • Maria Theresa of Austria

    1740-1880

  • War of Austrian Succession

    1740-1748

  • Montensquieu's Spirit of the Laws

  • Diderot and the Encyclopedia

    1754-1763

  • Seven Years War

    1756-1763

  • Flying Shuttle

  • Voltaire's Candide

  • Rousseau's The Social Contract and Emile

  • Catherine the Great

    1762-1796

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Water Frame/mule

  • First Partition of Poland

  • Declaration of Independence

  • American Revolution

    1776-1783

  • Smith's the Wealth of Nations

  • Joseph II of Austria

    1780-1790

  • James Watt perfects steam engine

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Power Loom

  • French Revolution

    1789-1799

  • Rule of Napoleon

    1799-1814

  • first steam powered locomotive

  • Napoleon exiled to Elba

  • Congress of Vienna

    1814-1815

  • Napoleon returns/Waterloo

  • First of Corn Laws passed in Britain

  • Revolutions in Central and South America

  • Peterloo Massacre

  • Greek Revolt

    1821-1827

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • European continental countries begin industrializing; Decembrist Revolt

  • Louis Philippe

    1830-1848

  • July Revolution

  • Reform Act of 1832

  • Grand National Consolidated Trade Union

  • Victorian Age

    1837-1901

  • Chartist movement

  • Great Potato Famine

  • Revolutions of 1848; Louis Napoleon elected as president of 2nd French Republic

  • Frankfurt Assembly

    1848-1849

  • Communist Manifesto

  • Great Exhibition in GB

  • Emperor Napoleon III proclaims second french empire

  • Crimean War

    1854-1856

  • Pasteur develops germ theory

  • Unification of Italy

    1858-1870

  • Origin of the Species

  • US Civil War

    1861-1865

  • Emancipation Proclamation in the US; Emancipation of the serfs in Russia

  • Napoleon III installs Maximilian as emperor of Mexico

  • Unification of Germany

    1864-1871

  • Ausgleich in Austria- Dual Monarchy; Dominion of Canada

  • Descent of Man published

  • Third French Republic proclaimed

  • Congress of Berlin

  • Triple Alliance formed

  • Reform Act of 1884

  • Wilhelm II becomes kaiser

  • nuclear physics; American Progressive Era

  • Dreyfus Affair

    1895-1899

  • Spanish American War

    1898-1900

  • Boer War

    1899-1900

  • modern volkism

  • Russo-Japanese War

  • Russian Revolution of 1905

  • Triple Entente formed

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated; WWI

  • US enters the war; Bolshevik Revolution

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

  • Versailles Treaty

  • French policy of coersion in the Rhineland

    1919-1924

  • France's Cartel of the Left; Lenin dies

  • Mussolini establishes Fascism in Italy

  • Stock Market crash; Stalin becomes dictator

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • New Deal begins in US; Hitler becomes Nazi dictator

  • Spanish Civil War

    1936-1939

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

  • Japan invades China

  • Anschluss; Munish Conference; Germany takes Sudetenland

  • Germany invades Czechoslovakia; Hitler-Stalin Pact; Germany invades Poland to start WWII

  • Western Europe falls to Blitzkrieg; Battle of Britain

  • New Order/Final Solution; Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

  • Normandy invasion; Battle of the Bulge

  • Germany surrenders; atomic bombs dropped on Japan; Japan surrenders

  • basis for the UN agreed upon

  • GB becomes welfare state

  • Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; GB gives India and Pakistan Independence

  • Jews proclaim new state in Israel

  • Berlin blockade and Berlin airlift

    1948-1949

  • China falls to Communists; Republic of China

  • UN begins; NATO forms; Konrad Adenaur becomes first chancellor of West Germany

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Stalin dies

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Hungarian revolt crushed by SU

  • European Common Market; first rock and roll hit

  • Berlin wall constructed

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • MLK leads March on Washington

  • Khrushchev removed; Gulf of Tonkin resolution escalates American involvement in Vietnam

  • Six Day War in Middle East

  • Soviets crush "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia

  • Watergate Scandal; OPEC oil embargo

  • Iran seizes US embassy in Tehran with hostages; SU invades Afghanistan

  • solidarity movement begins in Poland

  • GB wins Falklands War

  • collapse of communism begins in Czechoslovokia

  • SU begins breaking apart; Germany is reunified

  • Communism ends in SU which becomes Russia; First Persian Gulf War

  • European Union

  • 9/11; Coalition war on terrorists in Afghanistan

  • US invades Iraq

  • worldwide economic collapse