AP European History

  • Period: 476 to 1000

    Early Middle Ages

  • 787

    Founding of Holy Roman Empire

  • Period: 793 to 1015

    Viking, Magyar, & Muslim Invasions

  • Period: 1000 to 1300

    High Middle Ages

  • Period: 1100 to

    Scholasticism

  • Period: 1300 to 1500

    Italian Renaissance

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years' War

  • 1348

    Black Death Arrives in Europe

  • Period: 1378 to 1417

    Papal Schism

  • 1425

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • Period: 1462 to 1505

    Ivan the Great, Grand Prince of Russia

  • 1477

    Columbus in New World

  • 1483

    Diet of Worms

  • 1485

    Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII

  • 1492

    Pope Alexander VI

  • Period: 1494 to 1514

    French in Italy

  • 1502

    Ninety-five Theses

  • 1503

    Pope Julius II

  • 1521

    Diet of Augsburg

  • 1521

    Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

  • 1529

    Reformation Parliament in England

  • 1531

    Peasants’ revolt

  • 1531

    Zwingli dies

  • 1535

    Thomas More Executed

  • 1537

    Mary I of England (dies)

  • 1538

    Pacification of Ghent

  • 1540

    Peace of Augsburg

  • 1540

    Edict of Fontainebleau

  • 1541

    Edward IV (dies)

  • Period: 1545 to 1553

    Council of Trent

  • 1547

    Henry VIII (dies)

  • 1557

    Saint-Germain-en-Laye

  • 1562

    Perpetual Edict

  • Period: 1562 to

    French Wars of Religion

  • 1563

    Erasmus (dies)

  • 1571

    Battle of Lepanto

  • 1572

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

  • 1576

    Spanish Fury

  • 1579

    Union of Utrecht

  • Spanish Armada

  • Henry IV Starts Bourbon Dynasty

  • Catherine de’ Medici (dies)

  • Elizabeth I of England (dies)

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years’ War

  • Treaty of Westphalia