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Hundred Years' War
1337 - 1453
Printing press invented by Johannes Gutenburg
1450
Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
1453
The Gutenberg Bible published
1454
War of The Roses
1455 - 1485
Lorenzo de Medici, “The Magnificent”, takes power in Florence
1469
Portugal discovers gold in West Africa
1471
Portuguese sailors led by Bartolomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope
1488
Columbus’s discovery of America
1492
Reconquista of Spain Ends
1492
Treaty of Tordisillas
1493
Vasco Degamma makes it to India by boat
1498
Michaelangelo's David is completed
1501
Erasmus' "Handbook of the Christian Knight" is published
1503
Machiavelli's "The Prince" is published
1513
Thomas Moore writes Eutopia
1516
Martin Luther publishes his 95 theses
1517
Zwingli becomes priest
1518
Spain's Cortes conquers the Aztecs
1519
Peasant Revolt
1520
Diet of Worms
1521
Charles of HRE sacks Rome
1527
Pizarro's conquest of Incas
1530
Formation of the Schmalkaldic League
1531
Henry VIII becomes head of the Church of England
1534
Execution of Thomas Moore
1535
Jesuits created
1540
Council of Trent
1545 - 1563
Peace of Augsburg
1555
Elizabeth I takes throne
1558
Spanish Inquisition in Peru
1570
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
1572
Spanish Armada
1588
Edict of Nantes
1598
Jamestown established
1607
30 years war
1618 - 1648
Defenestration at Prague
1618
Battle of White Mountain
1620
Battle of White Mountain
1620
Edict of Restitution
1629
Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty years war
1648
Louis invades the Spanish Netherlands
1667
France invades the United Provinces after isolating the Dutch for their betrayal
1672
Ottomans laid siege to Vienna
1683
Edict of Fontainbleau
1685
Austria defeats the Ottomans
1687
Palace at Versailles was completed
1688
the war of the League of Augsburg leads to depression and famine in France
1689 - 1697
Treaty of Karlowitz
1699
St. Petersberg is constructed
1703
War of the Spanish Succession
1703 - 1713
Louis XVI calls the Estates General
1788
Estates General meets for the first time
1789
Tennis Court Oath
june 20, 1789
Great Fear
July 1789
Storming of the Bastille
July 14, 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man adopted by the Constituent Assembly
august 26, 1789
Women’s March on Versailles
October 5, 1789
Louis XVI attempts to flee Paris
1791
September Massacres
1792
Louis XVI executed
January 21, 1793
Committee of Public Safety established
April 1793
Marie Antoinette executed
October 16, 1793
Robespierre executed
july 28, 1794
Napoleon becomes FIrst Consul
1799
Napoleon crowns himself emperor
1804
Invasion of Russia
1812
Retreat from Russia
1813
Battle of Waterloo
June 18, 1815
Death of Napoleon
1821
Assasination of Franz Ferdinand
06/28/1914
World War I
07/28/1914 - 1918
Bolshevik Siezure of Power
1917
US enters World War I
04/06/1917
Mussolini becomes Italian Prime Minister
1922
German Hyperinflation
1923
Death of Lenin
1924
Stock Market Crash
1929
Hitler becomes Chancellor
1933
Nurmberg Laws
1935
Berlin Olympics
1936
Kristallnacht
11/09/1938
Invasion of Poland
09/01/1939
World War II
September 1, 1939 - August 14, 1945
Battle of Britain
July 1940 - October 1940
Operation Barbarossa launched
1941
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
12/07/1941
Battle of Midway
1942
Allies Land in Italy
1943
D-Day
1944
Battle of the Bulge begins
12/16/1944
V-E Day
May 8, 1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
United Nations charter ratified
OCtober 1945
French Fourth Republic
1946 - 1958
State of Israel established
1948
NATO Formed
1949
Death of Stalin
1953
Establishment of Warsaw Pact
1955
Beginning of Berlin Wall construction
1961
Cuban missile crisis
1962
Willy Brandt becomes German chancellor
1969
John Paul II elected Pope
1978
Margaret Thatcher becomes British prime minister
1979
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
1985
End of Communist rule in Eastern Europe
1989
Reunification of Germany
1990
Maastricht Treaty
1992
Introduction of the Euro
2002
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