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The Great Time Line Challenge

By orreocookie
  • Period: Jan 2, 1450 to

    European History

  • May 28, 1453

    Creation Of the Printing Press

    Creation Of the Printing Press
    Three Significant Impacts:
    1. Alloed knowledge to be more freely accesed and greatly increased the overall literacy rate
    2. Allowed people to read the Bible for themselves, and make thier own assumptions and beliefs.
    3. Multipied the output and cut the cost of books.
    4. This event was the most important of the century because it greatly increased the intellegence of the whole populatation as thousands began to learn to read now that it wasn't so expensive like never before.
  • Jun 1, 1492

    1st Voyage of Columbus

    1. Introdiced the Columbian Exchange
    2. Discovery of nrew spices and products
    3. Exploitation of native Americans
  • Aug 8, 1517

    Luthers 95 Theses

    1. The creation of the Jesuits,, and thier missionary persuits under the Catholic Church.
    2. The spark of the 30 years war between the Protestants and The Catholics and its effects. 3.Triggered the Protestant reformation,
    3. This is the most important event of the 16nth century because it was the first time any man defied the church and made his own relgion that would eventually win its way into legitmacy. It affected millions because all the wars fought over this religion.
  • Apr 30, 1534

    Act of Supremacy (England)

    1. Marked the beggining of the English Reformation.
    2. One of the first to challenge the Catholic Church and the Pope.
    3. Marked the beginning of religious indifference.
  • Sep 25, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    1. Ended the religious struggle bewtween Charles V and several Lutheran princes.
    2. Allowed Holy Roman States princes to choose either Lutheranism of Catholicism.
    3. Gave Lutheranism official status as a valid religion.

  • Peace of Westphalia

    1. Ended the Thirty Years War and the Eighty years War.
    2. Recognized the indepedence of the Dutch Republic
    3. Initiated e new system of political order, soverignty

  • English Glorious Revolution

    1. Overthrew King James II of England with William of Orange.
    2. Willaim Of Orange began Protestant Rule in Britain where Catholicism was abolisished.
    3. Began the creation of the English Parlimentary Democracy
    4. This is the most important event of the 17nth century because it signified Protestant rule and its effects on various countries, and how relegion was a major factor in everything back then.

  • Peace of Utrecht

    1. Ended the War of the Spanish Succesion
    2. Preserved the EUopean System based on the Balance of Powers
    3. Registered the defeat of French Ambitons expressed by the wars of Louis XIV.

  • French revolution (CONT)

    This was the most important event of the 18thcentury because it truly altered Frances political and economical landscape for years to come. Thousands were killed and nothing was really accomplished. It was a statement to all those who thought revolutiom could change everything.

  • French Revolution (CONT)

    This was the most important event of the 18thcentury because it truly altered Frances political and economical landscape for years to come. Thousands were killed and nothing was really accomplished. It was a statement to all those who thought revolutiom could change everything.

  • French Revolution

    1. Old ideas about tradition and hierarchy – of monarchy, aristocracy and religious authority – were abruptly overthrown by new Enlightenment principles of equality, citizenship and inalienable rights. 2. The creation of a rebulic which eventually failed when the Committee of Public Safety ensued in a dicatorship which soon crumbled as well. 3. Led to the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte , and the rise and fall of his French regime.

  • Congress of Vienna

    1. Redrew Europes continental map, establishing the boundaries of France, the Duchy of Warsaw, the Netherlands, the states of the Rhine, the German province of Saxony, and various Italian territories.
    2. Created Spheres of influence.
    3. Forged a peaceful "Balance of Power".
    4. This was the most important event of the 19th century because it rearranged the map of Europe and it was the point in which European countries split up Africa in colonization which would damage Africa for centuries.

  • Europes Revolutions of 1848

    1, Ws the first (and only) Europe-wide collapse of traditional authority,
    2. . The only significant lasting reforms were the abolition of serfdom in Austria and Hungary and the end of absolute monarchy in Denmark.
    3. A widespread demand for democacry and freedom sparked these wolrdwide revolutions, but barely any change preceded the outcome.

  • Publication of the Communist Manifesto

    1. One of the worlds most influention manuscripst that effected millions of people and countries world wide.
    2. Created the basis of goverments that would rule for decades. (Russia, China, etc.)
    3. Brought new insight to the class struggle and new concepts.

  • 1871's Unification of Germany.

    1. Changed the balance of power in Europe.
    2. Its German manifestation emphasized the importance of tradition, education, and linguistic unity of peoples in a geographic region.
    3. Created a country that would lead in Europe for decades, and fight to survive.

  • Start of World War I

    1. First use of deadly weapons on a grand scale, with millions of casualties afterwords.
    2. Intorduced many new types of warfare, such as trench warfare and the machine gun.
    3. Afterward led to the creation of the League of Nations, which would in a way be the cause of WWII.
    4. This is the most important event of all time becauuse it was the first time largscale war had been experienced, millions were killed, and it caused irreparable damage to Europe as a world power. It would cause WWII, too.

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    1. Destroyed the Tsarist Autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.
    2. Creation of the Duma, the first Consitutional Parliment in Russia.
    3. Led to the Bolshevik siezure of the goverment, civi war ensued and paved way for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    1. Officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
    2. The League of Nations was created and one article would eventually require Germany to accept responsibility for causing the war and pay reparations.
    3. Even though they tried so hard to pacify Germany, they failed and would eventually an angrier and more bitter Gemany would soon be back up on its feet.

  • Great Depression

    1. The depression originated in the U.S., starting with the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929 and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929
    2. Devasted countries economically and millions were unemployed.
    3. Political systems in Europe veered toward extremism as the conventional democratic countries failed their citizens.

  • Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

    1. Hitler Transformed the Weimer Rebulic into the Third Reich, and one of the most powerful Fascist nations in history.
    2. Led to the eventual invasion of Poland, and WWII. This led to worldwide manslaughter that devastated the country.
    3. The eventual separation of Germany after the war and its downfall as a sphere of influence.

  • End of WWII

    End of WWII
    1. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world. The United Nations (UN) was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts. America created the Marshall plan to help Europe in a time of crisis.
    2. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years.
    3. Decolonization and the Influence of Europe bagan to rapidly decrease.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    1. East and West Germany soon reunited as thousands flooded into the once inaccessable West Germany.
    2. Showed the crumbling Soviet Unions fall as its satallites and various countries proclaimed their independence such as East Germany.
    3. Affected West Germanys ability to create one united Germany since each Germany was economically unbalanced and different. 3.

  • Maastricht Treaty

    1. Led to the creation of the European Union and the euro.
    2. Brang Europe together in a more closely knit group of countries than ever before.
    3. The Maastricht Treaty established the Maastricht criteria and the EU single market which ensures the free movement of goods, capital, people and services.