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England
Enclosure Acts
1604 - 1800
Long Parliament
1640
English Civil War
1642 - 1651
Charles I Executed
1649
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
1649
Oliver Cromwell dies
1658
Isaac Newton's "Principia"
1687
Glorious Revolution
1688
Locke's "2nd Treatise of Government"
1689
Kay's flying shuttle invented
1704
Watt's steam engine invented
1712
Hanoverian Dynasty begins
1714
Hargreaves Spinning Jenny Invented
1764
William Pitt the Elder becomes Prime Minister
1766
Arkwright's water frame invented
1769
William Pitt the Younger becomes Prime Minister
1783
Cartwright's power loom invented
1784
Malthus' Idea on population
1798
Luddites protest against new machines
1811
Corn Laws Passed
1815 - 1846
Jeremy Bentham's ideas about Utilitarianism
1824
Reform Bills of 1832/1867/1884
1832 - 1884
Chartists
1834 - 1848
Poor Law of 1834
1834
Queen Victoria Coronation/Abdication
1838
Corn Laws Repealed
1846
Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
1859
Gladstone becomes Prime Minister in Britain
1868
Other (Multiple)
Baroque Art movement
1600
Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
1600 - 1702
Thirty Years War
1618 - 1648
King Gustavus Adolphus dies
1642
Rembrandt paints "Night Watch"
1642
Northern Wars
1645 - 1721
The Fronde
1649 - 1652
Vermeer paints "The Astronomer"
1668
Act of Union with Ireland
1707
Act of Union with Scotland
1707
Fredrick the Great's rule
1740 - 1786
Irish Potato Famine
1740 - 1741
War of Austrian Succession
1740 - 1748
Seven Years War
1756 - 1763
Rousseau's "Emile"
1762
First Partition of Poland
1772
American Revolution
1775 - 1783
Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
1776
Second Partition of Poland
1793
Third Partition of Poland
1795
Impressionist Movement
1800 - 1880
Literary and Artistic Realism
1800 - 1900
Romanticism
1800 - 1850
Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages
1817
Gree Independence of 1832
1832
Danish War
1848 - 1851
Early Utopian Socialist ideas emerge: Charles Fourier, Louis Blanc
1848
Marx & Engels "The Communist Manifesto"
1848
Revolutions of 1848: France, Gemany, Austria, Italy
1848
Post-Impressionism
1880 - 1900
Pasteur's Germ Theory
1885
Kipling writes "White Man's Burden"
1899
France
French Classicism
1600 - 1700
Descrate's "Discourse on Method"
1637
Louis XIV's Reign begins
1643
Versailles is constructed
1664
Baptiste Colbert made French Minister of Finance
1665
War of Spanish Succession
1701 - 1714
Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"
1748
Diderot's "Encyclopedia"
1759
Voltaire's "Candide"
1759
Treaty of Paris 1763
1763
French Revolution
1787 - 1799
Abbe Sieyes "What is the Third Estate?"
1789
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
1789
Tennis Court Oath
1789
Civil Consitution of the Clergy
1790
Declaration of Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
1791
Committee of Public Saftey
1793
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed
1793
Robespierre is executed
1794
Louis XVII
1795
The Directory
1795 - 1799
Napoleonic Wars
1799 - 1815
Napoleon Code
1804
Continental System
1806
Charles X Coronation/Abdication
1825
Louis Phillip Coronation/Abdication
1830
Baron Haussmann remodels Paris
1848 - 1870
Bloody June Days
1848
Louis Napoleon elected president
1848
Revolutions of 1830 in France
1848
Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat
1851
Louis Napoleon --> Napoleon III as emperor
1870
Third Republic of France
1870 - 1940
Paris Commune resists Prussia
1871
Boulanger Affair
1886 - 1889
Dreyfus Affair
1894 - 1906
Emile Zola's "J'Accuse"
1898
Russia
Peter the Great's rule begins
1682
St. Petersburg is constructed
1712
Catherine the Great begins her rule
1762
Pugachev's Rebellion
1773 - 1775
Decembrist Revolt
1825
Crimean War
1853 - 1856
Alexander II frees serfs in Russia
1861
Alexander II assassinated
1881
Germany
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
1609
Peace of Westphalia
1648
Maria Theresa's rule
1740
Joseph II's rule
1765 - 1790
Friedrich List's Economic Nationalism
1784 - 1846
Declaration of Pilnitz
1791
Confederation of the Rhine created
1806
Burschenscaften formed
1815
Carlsbad Decrees
1819
Zolverein Formed
1834
Frankfurt Assembly
1848
William I crowned German Emperor
1861
Bismarck's "iron and blood speech"
1862
Austro-Prussian War
1866
Augsleich
1867
Franco-Prussian War
1870 - 1871
Bismarck made chancellor of Germany
1871
Bismarck's Kulturkampf
1871
German Unification complete
1871
Congress of Berlin
1878
Italian States
Galileo put on trial
1633
Congress of Vienna
1814 - 1815
Garibaldi gives S. Italy to Cavour to join with the N. Lands
1848
Mazzini advocates for talian Unification
1848
Victor Emmanuel crowned king of Italy
1849
Cavour begins unification process in Italy
1859
Italian Unification Complete
1871
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