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Time Periods

Renaissance

1350 - 1600

Age of Exploration

1450 - 1600

High Renaissance

1490 - 1527

Northern Renaissance

1500 - 1615

Reformation

1517 - Approx. 1648

Scientific Revolution

1543 - 1700

Age of Absolutism

1600 - 1800

Agricultural Revolution

1650 - 1750

Age of Aristocracy

1700 - 1760

Enlightenment

1700 - 1800

Industrial Revolution

1750 - 1900

1750-1805 - 1st Industrial Revolution
1875-1900 - 2nd Industrial Revolution ("New Imperialism")

Enlightened Absolutism

1750 - 1800

New Imperialism

1860 - 1914

Events

Printing Press

Approx. 1450

Ottoman's Capture Constantinople

1453

Peace of Lodi

1454

Bartholemew Diaz Rounds the Cape of Good Hope

1488

Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue

1492

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

1st French Invasion of Italalian Peninsula

1494

Vasco da Gama Arrives in India

1498

2nd French Invasion of Italian Peninsula

1499

Machiavelli's The Prince

1513

Martin Luther's 95 Thesis

1517

Diet & Edict of Worms

1521

Swabian Peasant's Revolt

1524 - 1526

Sack of Rome

1527

Act of Supremacy

1534

Pilgrimage of Grace

1536

Peace of Augsburg

1555

Eighty Years War

1568 - 1648

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

1572

Spanish Armada

1588

Dutch East India Company

1602

Thirty Years War

1618 - 1648

Petition of Right

1628

Galileo's Trial

1633

English Civil War

1642 - 1646

Peace of Westphalia

1648

The Fronde

1649 - 1652

Execution of Charles I

1649

Navigation Acts

1651

Test Act

1673

Edict of Fontainebleau

1685

Glorious Revolution

1688

English Bill of Rights

1689

Great Northern War

1700 - 1721

War of Spanish Succession

1701 - 1713

War of Austrian Succession

1740 - 1748

Silesia

Seven Years War

1756 - 1763

Decleration of Independence

1776

French Revolution

1789 - 1799

Tennis Court Oath, Storming of Bastille, "Great Fear", DROMAC, March on Versailles

Reign of Terror

1793

Thermidorian Reaction

1795

Crimean War

1853 - 1856

Art Styles

Renaissance Art

Approx. 1350 - 1600

Northern Renaissance Art

1490 - 1580

Mannerism

1520 - 1580

Baroque Art

1600 - 1700

Rococo Art

1700 - 1760

Neoclassicism

1750 - 1800

Romanticism

1800 - 1840

Realism

1848 - 1870

Impressionism

1870 - Approx. 1900

Post-Impressionism

1880 - 1900

Dadaism

1916 - 1923

Surrealism

1920 - 1935

Abstract Expressionism

1940 - 1960

Reigns of Monarchs

Ferdinand & Isabella (Spain)

1474 - 1504

Religious uniformity

Henry VIII (England)

1509 - 1547

Act of Supremacy

Charles V (Holy Roman Empire)

1519 - 1556

Edward VI (England)

1547 - 1553

Book of Common Prayer

Mary I (England)

1553 - 1558

Philip II (Spain)

1556 - 1598

Elizabeth I (England)

1558 - 1603

Henry IV (France)

1589 - 1610

Philip III (Spain)

1598 - 1621

James I (England)

1603 - 1625

Louis XIII (France)

1610 - 1643

Philip IV (Spain)

1621 - 1665

Charles I (England)

1625 - 1649

Dismissed Parliament, First monarch to be executed in England

Frederick William the Great Elector (Prussia)

1640 - 1688

Louis XIV (France)

1643 - 1715

Oliver Cromwell (England)

1653 - 1658

Lord Protectorate

Charles II (England)

1660 - 1685

Peter the Great (Russia)

1682 - 1725

Westernized Russia, St. Petersburg, Boyars & Table of Ranks

James II (England)

1685 - 1688

Strong Catholic

Frederick I (Prussia)

1688 - 1713

Frederick William I (Prussia)

1713 - 1740

Frederick II (Prussia)

1740 - 1786

Enlightened Absolutist #1

Catherine II the Great (Russia)

1762 - 1796

Enlightened Absolutist #2

Joseph II (Austria)

1780 - 1790

Napoleon I

1804 - 1814

World War I

Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy

1882

Reinsurance Treaty

1887

Triple Entente: France, Britain & Russia

1907

First Balkan War

1912

Second Balkan War

1913

Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assasinated

June 28, 1914

The "blank check"

July 5, 1914

Austria's ultimatum to Serbia

July 23, 1914

Austria declares war on Serbia

July 28, 1914

Russia mobilizes

July 29, 1914

Germany declares war on Russia

August 1, 1914