European History

By AP Euro Band Kids
  • Jun 3, 1450

    Printing Press developed

  • Apr 25, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople to the Turks

  • Jun 3, 1453

    Turks conquer Constatinople

  • Jun 3, 1455

    The Wars of the Roses

  • Jun 3, 1455

    Civil wars between English Nobles

  • Jun 3, 1455

    Johann Guttenburg completes first bible

  • Jun 3, 1462

    Ivan the Great rules Russia as first czar

  • Jun 3, 1481

    Renewal of the Spanish Inquisition

  • Apr 25, 1492

    Columbus lands in the New World

  • Apr 25, 1492

    Jews and Moslems expelled from Spain

  • Apr 25, 1492

    Vasco Da game lands in Goa

  • Jun 3, 1492

    Moors conquered in Spain by troops of Ferdinand and Isabella

  • Apr 25, 1500

    Birth of Charles V of Haspsburg

  • Jun 3, 1500

    Moghul Empire in India grows to include entire Indian peninsula

  • Apr 25, 1509

    Henry VII ascend the throne of England

  • Apr 25, 1517

    Martin luther nails his 95 thesis on the door of the cathedral in Wittenburg

  • Jun 3, 1519

    Magellan sail around the world and proves the Earth is round

  • Apr 25, 1520

    Cortez conquers Mexico

  • Apr 25, 1520

    First circumnavigation of the world

  • Apr 25, 1529

    Turks besiege Vienna

  • Apr 25, 1534

    Luther publishes his German Bible

  • Apr 25, 1536

    John Clavin publishes his Institute of Christian Religion

  • Apr 25, 1540

    Pope Paul III authorizes the Society of Jesus

  • Apr 25, 1541

    Calvin becomes the reformer of Geneva

  • Apr 25, 1543

    Nicholas Copernicus published DE Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

  • Apr 25, 1543

    Andres Vesalius publishes De Humani Corporis Fabrica

  • Apr 25, 1545

    Beginning of the Council of Trent

  • Apr 25, 1551

    Foundation of the University of Lima

  • Apr 25, 1553

    Michael Servetus burned at the stake by Calvin in Geneva

  • Apr 25, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Apr 25, 1558

    Elizabeth I of Tudor becomes Queen of England

  • Apr 25, 1562

    Beginning of wars of religion in France

  • Apr 25, 1564

    Deathe of Calvin

  • Apr 25, 1564

    Death of Michaelangelo

  • Apr 25, 1564

    Birth of Galileo

  • Apr 25, 1564

    Birth of Shakespeare

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  • Apr 25, 1568

    Beginning of the revolt of the northern Low countries against Phillip II (King of Spain)

  • Apr 28, 1571

    Birth of Johannes Kepler (d.1630).

  • Apr 28, 1571

    Defeat of the Turks in the naval battle of Lepanto.

  • Apr 28, 1572

    French Protestants (Huguenots) were killed on the order.

  • Apr 28, 1575

    Foundation of the University of Leyden.

  • Apr 28, 1582

    Pope Gregory XIII institutes the Gregorian Calendar.

  • Spanish Armada defeated by the weather and the English fleet.

  • Henry of Navarre (1553-1610) becomes the first Bourbon king, Henry IV, of France

  • Johannes Kepler

    Publishes Cosmographic Mystery.

  • Edict of Nantes

    Under which Protestants in France are allowed to practice their religion in peace.

  • Elizabeth I dies

    Succesor james I of the House of Stuart took over up until 1625

  • New star (supernova) is described

  • Francis Bacon publishes 'Divine and Human' and 'Proficiencie and Advancement of Learning'

  • Foundation of Virginia by the English

  • Foundation of quebec by the french

  • Kepler publishes 'The New Astronomy', in which he introduces elliptical astronomy

  • Henry IV of France is murdered

  • King James bible is published

  • Foundation of New York by the Dutch

  • Beginning of the Thirty Years War, which devistated much of the Germen Region

  • Francis Bacon publishes his 'New Organum'

  • Beginning of the reign of Charles I of England

  • Foundadtion of Harvard College

  • Rene Descartes publishes his 'Discourse on Method'

  • Death of Galileo

  • Birth of Isaac Newton

  • Beginning of Egland Civil War

  • Descartes publishes 'Principles of Philosophy'

  • Peace of Westphalia, end of Thirty Years War

  • Charles l of England is beheaded by Cromwell and the "Rump" Parliament

  • Thomas Hobbes publishes the 'Leviathon'

  • Restoration of the English Monarchy

  • Foundation of the Royal Society of London

  • Charles ll crowned king of England

  • Louis the XlV begins to govern France

  • Repeal of Edict of Nantes

  • James ll ascends the throne of England

  • Isaac Newton publishes his 'Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'

  • Glorious Revolution in England

  • Beginning of the rule of William and Mary in England

  • Founding of the Bank of England

  • Act of succesion established in England

  • Establishment of St. Petersburg

  • Isaac Newton publishes his Opticks

  • The English drive the french out of most of the Spanish Netherlands

  • Scottland and England becomes the United Kingdom of Great Britain

  • MOre Europeans are learning to read and getting involved with reason and science

  • Fredirick ll born

  • Peace of Utrecht

  • Maria Theresa born

  • Vitus Bering explores the Bering Straits

  • Frederick the Great begins rule Prussia

  • War of Austrian Succession

    Involved most of European powers over the question of Maria Theresa's succession

  • Diderot's Encyclopedia Published

  • Seven Years' War, French and Indian War

    Global conflict where England declares war on France

  • Catherine the Great begins rule Russia

  • Steam engine is invented

  • The first Partition of Poland takes place

    Russia, Prussia and Austria help themselves to Polish territory.

  • The American colonies rebel

  • Industrial Revolution begins to transform life in Britain

  • French workers and tradesmen storm Bastille

  • "The Great Fear" Sweeps countryside

  • The French Revolution begins

  • France is seized by rain of terror

  • France King Louis XVI is executed.

  • Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power in France

  • Napoleon institutes reforms

  • Napoleonic Wars

  • The French defeat the Austrians at Austerlitz but are defeated by the British at Trafalgar

  • The British take over the Dutch colony of South Africa

  • The French crush the Prussians at the Battle of Jena

  • Britain abolishes the slave trade

  • Napoleon's invasion of Russia ends in disaster

  • Congress of Vienna meets

  • Congress of Vienna redraws Europe

  • Napoleon escapes from exile and becomes emperor of France again but he is defeated at Waterloo

  • Greeks independance

  • Decembrist Revolts in Russia fails

  • Worlds first rail line in England

  • Parliment in England declares Catholic emancipation

  • Industrial Revolution spreads to France, Germany and the USA

  • Englishh Parliament enacts the Great Reform Bill

  • The Opium War is fought between Britain and China begun

    China leases Hong Kong to Britain.

  • Britain annexes, New Zealand

  • Revolutions break out across Europe

  • Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte is dictator of France

  • Potato famine strikes Ireland

  • The Crimean War begun

    Britain, France and Turkey versus Russia.

  • Italy is united

  • Russian serfs are made free

  • The Franco-Prussian War is fought

    Napoleon III falls from power and France surrenders.
    Germany becomes a united country.

  • Alexander II is assasinated by radical populists

  • France and Russia form an alliance

  • Dreyfus Affair in France

  • Judenstaat published

  • RSPD is formed

  • The Triple Entente emerges

  • War between Russia and Japan

  • A revolution in takes place in Russia

  • Norway becomes independent from Sweden

  • Young Turks Revolt

  • The First World War begins

  • Germans engage in submarine warfare

  • US enters War

  • Tanks are used for the first time by the British

  • In Russia Rasputin is murdered

  • Communists seize power in Russia

  • Germany surrenders

  • Truce ends WW1

  • Germany is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles

    which causes much resentment in that country

  • Mussolini seizes power in Italy

  • Beer-Hall Putsch occurs

  • World Great Depression

  • Mussolini attacks Ethiopia

  • Hitler war against German Jews

  • Facists take over Spain

  • Hitler occupies demilitarized Rhineland

    Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland.

  • Germany Annexes Austria

    German troops march into Austria to annex them for the Third Reich

  • Munich Conference

    Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace.

  • Occupation of Sudetenland

    As a result of the Munich Agreement, German troops complete their occupation of the Sudetenland.

  • WWII Begins

  • Germany invades Poland

    German forces have invaded Poland and its planes have bombed Polish cities, including the capital, Warsaw.

  • Germany defeats France

  • Germany invades U.S.S.R.

  • Axis forces surrender in North Africa

  • soviets win BAttle of Stalingrad

  • Allied invasion of France

  • France establish the fourth Republic

  • The Labour Party wins in Britain

  • Cold War starts in Germany

  • Germany Surrenders

  • Japan Surrenders

  • Yalta Conference

  • Communist threat sparks crisi over Greece and Turkey

  • Soviet Union acquires atomic weapons

  • The two Germanies are established

  • West Germany remilitarizes

  • Prague Spring Occurs

  • Common Market Expands (Europe Community)

  • Johhn Paul II becomes Pope

  • Margaret Thatcher becomes prime Minister of Britian

  • Organization of Green Party in Germany

  • Emergance of Solidarity in Poland

  • Gorbachev comes to power in the Soviet Union

  • Revolution in Eastern Europe

  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union

  • Maastricht Treaty creates the EU

  • Unification of Germany

  • War in Kosovo

  • Expansion of European Union