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Peace of Lodi
1454
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Alliance system in Italy.
War of the Roses
1455 - 1485
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Between house of Lancaster and house of York over crown (Britain).
Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon get married
1469
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Christopher Columbus lands in the Caribbean
1492
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Funded by Spanish monarchs; aims to find spices and gold in Asia. (doesn't)
Vasco da Gama reaches India
1498
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He does that, by going around Africa; spice trade to the east by sea begins
The Handbook of the Christian Knight
1503
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By Erasmus printed in 1503
The Prince
1513
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Machiavelli. Leaders should inspire fear to end politcal instability and to cause moral regeneration.
Luther is excommunicated from the Church
1521
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The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
1528
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Diet of Augsburg
1530
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Charles V tries to settle the Lutheran problem at the Diet of Augsburg and he was unsuccessful.
Francisco Pizarro lands on Pacific coast of South America
1530
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Copernicus publishes his argument for heliocentric
1543
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Council of Trent
1545 - 1563
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Reforms bishop and priest conduct, reaffirms catholic doctrine: papal authority, seven scraments, power of good works, celibacy of clergy
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
1572
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Thousands of Huguenots killed in France (Paris). More resistance to Catholic rule.
Montaigne writes his essays
1580
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Self knowledge to tunderstand the world.
Edict of Nantes
1598
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Catholicism is the official religion of France and the Huguenots right to worship.
The foundation of the Exchange Bank of Amsterdam
1609
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Thirty Years War
1618 - 1648
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Dialogue
1632
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Galileo published his most famous work..
English Royal Society
1662
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King Charles II grants a charter to them,
Edict of Fontaineblau
1685
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Louis XIV destorys Huguenot churches and closes their schools.
Great Northern War
1700 - 1721
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Peace of Utrecht
1713
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Ends the Spanich Succession War.
Hanoverian Dynasty comes to power in Britian
1714
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Seven Years War
1756 - 1763
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The Cotton/Textile industry
1770 - 1780
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In the 1770s and the 1780s, the cotton/textile industry took the first major step toward the Industrial revolution with the creation of the factory.
Spain and France demand end of Jesuits
1773
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Pope Clement XIV comply. Decline papal power followed.
Toleration patent
1781
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Jospeh II of Austria. Non-Catholics right to worship privately.
William Pitt the Elder as prime minister (England)
1783
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Kant defines englightment
1784
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Man's leaving his self cause immaturity.
constituent Assembly
1789 - 1791
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wrote new constitution to destroy old order
Declaration of Philnitz
1791
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Leopold II of Austria and Frederick william II of Prussia issued the Declaration of Philnitz. which invited other European monarchs to take "the most effectual means.. to put the king of France in a state of well being, in most perfect liberty..."
Napoleon dominated both French and European History
1799 - 1815
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First Census
1801
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In Britain the first census was taken in 1801. A systematic registration of births, deaths, and marriages was begun in 1836.
Bourbon Family restored in France
1814
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Louis XVIII
Reaffirmation of Quadruple Alliance
1815
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Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria
The Greek Revolt
1821 - 1832
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Principle of intervention was a double-edge sword. (supported the revolution)
Photography was invented
1830
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Communist Manifesto
1848
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The Crimean War
1854 - 1856
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Garibaldi landed in Sicily
1860
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New Spanish Constitution
1875
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New constitution under KingAlfonso XII. Made a parliamentery government dominated by liberals and conservatives
Balkan states of Serbia and Mantenegro declare war on Ottoman Empire
1876
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Europe's First Birth control Clinic
1882
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Dr. Aletta Jacob (founder)
Evolutionary Socialism
1899
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Bernstein challenged Marxist orthodoxy
The Interpretation of Dreams
1900
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Frued's book contained the basic foundation of psychoanalysis
German offensive at Verdun
1916
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US brought into WW1
1917
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The Treaty of Brest- Litovsic
1918
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The new communist government in Russia gave up the lands in eastern Poland, Ukraine, Finland and the Baltic provinces.
Mussolini came to power
1924
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Great Depression
1929
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Two factors: collapse of US stock market, and downturn in domestic economies.
Mussolini commits to imperial expansion
1935
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Mussolini had committed Facist Italy to imperial expansion by invading Ethiopia.
Hitler annexed Austria to Germany.
1938
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Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass)
1938
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German forces invade Poland
1939
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Victory of Chinese Communists.
1949
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US became involved in the Korean War
1950
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Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
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Gorbachev comes to power in the USSR
1985
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Soviet nuclear diaster at Chernobly
1986
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Re-unification of Germany
1990
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