AP European History Timeline

By Emmie Cate Powell
  • Apr 27, 1215

    Magna Carta was Signed in England

    guarenteed the people's certain rights and bound the king to certain laws. Important bc it was a major step in forming modern democracy
  • Period: Apr 27, 1215 to

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  • Apr 27, 1305

    Great Schiesm in Roman Catholic Church begins

  • Apr 27, 1321

    Divine Comedy

    begins vernacular literature
  • Apr 27, 1338

    Hundred Years War begins

    civil war in England between the Landcasters and the York family for the crown
  • Apr 27, 1419

    Prince Henry forms the Navigation Schools

    starts the Age of Exploration and gets Portugal ahead
  • Apr 27, 1450

    Renaissance Begins

    defined as the rebirth in interest in art, education, and trade and also intellectual movement
    Humanists played an important role
  • Apr 27, 1450

    War of the Roses in england

    1450-1485
  • Apr 27, 1487

    Dias voyage to the Cape of Good Hope

  • Apr 27, 1492

    Columbus lands in the Western Hemisphere

  • Apr 27, 1492

    Unification of Spain completed

  • Apr 27, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    divided newly discovered world into separate Portugese and Spanish spheres of influence
  • Apr 27, 1497

    De Gamas Voyage to India

    create a trade route to India
  • Apr 27, 1497

    Cabot sails to North America

  • Apr 27, 1500

    Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal

  • Apr 27, 1502

    Vespucci created the Map of the New World

  • Apr 27, 1517

    Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation

    16th century religious, political, intellectual and cutlural upheaval that splintered catholic Europe setting in place the structures and beliefs to find the continent in the modern era
  • Apr 27, 1525

    First German Religious War

    War between the armies that support Luther (protestants) and the emperors armeis
    Result of this: Peace of Augsburg
  • Apr 27, 1529

    Marburg Colloquy

    the debate between Ulrich Zwingli and Martin Luther DEBATE
  • Apr 27, 1534

    Act of Supremacy/ the Creation of the Anglican Church

    AOS made the king the leader of the church and created the Anglican Church from withdrawing the Roman Catholic Church
  • Apr 29, 1540

    Scientific Revolution begins

  • Apr 27, 1543

    Scientific Revolution

    the emergence of modern science during the early modern period when developments in math, physics. astronomy, biology, and chemistry transformed views of society and nature
  • Apr 27, 1545

    Council of Trent

    where Pope Paul III forms a council to examine every belief and practice of the RCC against scripture
  • Apr 27, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    Ended the German Religious War and allowed the leaders of the German states to decide how their people will worship and Lutherism was granted equal legal standing
  • Apr 27, 1559

    Elizabethan Settlement

    temporarily resolves the religious conflict in England
  • Apr 27, 1562

    The French Wars of Religion

    period of fighting within france between Catholics and Huguenots
  • Apr 28, 1581

    Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

    1581- 1672

  • Edict of Nantes

    ended the French Wars of religion
    - grants freedom of worship to the Huguenots that make up the majority of the population
    - grants political equality to the Huguenots with Catholics
    - in cities where they are the majority of the population, Huguenots can have fortified cities
    - the RC faith is made the official religion of France

  • James I brings Stuart rule to England

  • Jamestown Established

    first successful British colony in the Americas

  • Quebec established

    Samuel de Champlain led the first French settlers to build the first French settlement there

  • Reign of Louis XIII in France

    1610- 43

  • Michael Romanov re- establishes czarist rule in Russia

  • Thirty Years War

    1619-1648

  • Hohenzollerns come to power in Prussia

  • English Civil War

    1642-1648

  • Reign of Louis XIV in France

    1643-1715

  • Cromwell rules England

    1649-1658

  • Restoration

    the return of a Stuart king into the throne of England (Charles II)

  • Edict of Fontainebleau

    revoked the Edict of Nantes

  • Glorious Revolution

    Bloodless taking of the throne by William and Mary

  • Peter the Great rules Russia

    1689-1725

  • War of Spanish Succession

    1702-1713

  • Enlightenment begins

  • War of Austrian Succession

    1740-1748

  • Seven Years War (French and Indian War in America)

    1756-1763

  • Treaty of Paris,1763

  • Declaration of Indpendence

  • American Revolution

    1776-1783

  • Treaty of Paris, 1783

  • French Revolution

    1789-1799

  • Rule of Napoleon

    1799-1814

  • Congress of Vienna

    1814-1815

  • Revolutions in Central and South America

  • Peterloo Massacre

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • European continental countries began industrializing

  • July Revolution in France

  • Louis Philippe in France

    1830-1848

  • reform act passed in Great Britain

  • Grand National Consolidated Trades Union formed

  • Victorian Age in Great Britain

    time that Great Britain was ruled by Queen Victoria, and this is the longest in British History; 1837-1901

  • Chartist Movement

    working men who decided that the way to get change involved getting involved with the government.

  • Great Potato Famine in Ireland

  • Revolutions of 1848

  • Frankfurt Assembly in Germany

    1848-1849; the form of Government in Prussia after Napoleon

  • Great Exhibition in Great Britain

  • Crimean War

    1854-1856

  • Unification of Italy

    1858-1870

  • Civil War in the United States

    1861-1865

  • Emancipation Proclamation in US

  • Unification of Germany

    1864-1871

  • Third French Republic proclaimed

  • Congress of Berlin

    everyone wants land on the Balkan Peninsula but the people want to be Independent. Otto Von Bismarck meets to settle

  • Triple Alliance Formed

    Germany Austria and Italy

  • Reform Act of 1884 in GB

  • Birth of nuclear physics; Start of American Progressive Era

  • Spanish American war

  • Russo-Japanese war

  • Boer war

  • Triple entente formed

  • World war 1

    Began when the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assinated

  • French policy of coercion in the Rhineland

    -1924

  • Mussolini establishes Fascism in italy

  • Stock market crash in the US

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

  • Japan invades Manchuria

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

  • Spanish Civil War

    1936-1939

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

  • Japan invades China

  • Anschluss; Munich Conference; Germany takes Sudentenland

  • New Order/Final Solution

  • Normandy Invasion; Battle of the Buldge

  • germany Surrenders; atomic bombs dropped on japan; Japan surrenders

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Western Europe falls to Blitzkrieg; Battle of Britain beings