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Renaissance
1350 - 1550
European Expansion: Mercantilism, Colonialism, Columbian Exchange
1500 - 1800
Reformation
1500 - 1600
Scientific Revolution
1500 - 1700
Catholic Counter-Reformation
1550 - 1600
State-Building: Absolutism (Louis XIV), English Constitutional Monarchy
1600 - 1700
Enlightenment
1700 - 1800
"18th Century" - Enlightened Absolutism, International Wars, Social Change
1715 - 1789
1715 was the end of the reign of Louis XIV
1789 was the start of the French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
1750 - 1850
French Revolution
1789 - 1799
Age of Napoleon
1799 - 1815
Conservative Order: Metternich, then Bismarck
1815 - 1890
Revolution (1930s, 1948) and Reform
1830 - 1850
Nationalism: Unification of Germany and Italy
1850 - 1871
"Age of Progress" - Mass Society
1871 - 1894
Modernity, Anxiety, Imperialism
1894 - 1914
World War I
1914 - 1919
Inter-War Period
1919 - 1939
World War II
1939
Cold War
1945 - 1970
Post-Cold War and Modern Day
1970 - 2013
Britain
Spain
France
Artistic/Intellectual Movements
Mannerism
1520 - 1580
Baroque Period
1580 - 1720
Neoclassicism
1600 - 1790
Rococo
1730 - 1800
Romanticism
1800 - 1850
Realism
1850 - 1870
Impressionism
1870 - 1890
Naturalism
1880 - 1900
Post-Impressionism
1880 - 1900
Cubism/Abstract Movement
1905 - 1914
Surrealism
1920 - 1950
Russia/USSR
Reign of Ivan III
1462 - 1505
creation of the principality of Moscow
independence from the Mongols by 1480
Reign of Ivan IV The Terrible
1533 - 1584
1st Tsar
Time of Troubles
1598 - 1613
Boyar (aristocratic) power
anarchy
Reign of Michael Romanov
1613 - 1645
made Tsar by the national assembly (Zemsky Sobor)
Reign of the Romanovs
1613 - 1917
Urban Uprisings
1641 - 1648
Schism of the Russian Orthodox Church
1666
Reign of Peter the Great
1682 - 1725
Westernization
1722 Table of Ranks: meritocracy
police state
army reorganization
mercantilism
reforms undone after death
The Great Northern War
1701 - 1721
attack on Sweden with Polish and Danish allies
Reign of Catherine the Great
1762 - 1796
Partitions of Poland
1772 - 1795
Pugachev Rebellion
1773 - 1774
resulted in increased repression of peasantry and serfdom
War Against the French (2nd European Coalition - Rus., GB, Aus.)
1799 - 1800
Reign of Alexander I
1801 - 1825
War Against the French (3rd European Coalition - Br., Aus., Rus., Prus.)
1803 - 1807
French Invasion of Russia by Napoleon
1812
result of Russian defection from Continental System
Decembrist Revolt
1825
Reign of Nicholas I
1825 - 1855
Crimean War
1854 - 1856
Reign of Alexander II
1855 - 1881
Emancipation Edict
1861
Three Emperors' League (Ger., Aus.-Hung., Rus.)
1873 - 1878
Treaty of San Stefano
1876
Bulgaria becomes Russian satellite state
Congress of Berlin
1878
humiliation for Russians because Bulgaria is returned to the Ottomans
therefore, Russia ends the Three Emperors' League
Reign of Alexander III
1881 - 1894
Sergei Witte, Minister for Finance
1892 - 1906
industrialization
Allies with the French
1894
after German William II drops the 1887 Reinsurance Treaty
Reign of Nicholas II
1894 - 1917
1905 Revolution
1905
January, Bloody Sunday
October Manifesto, which created the Duma and civil liberties
Defeat in Russo-Japanese War
1905
Nicholas II Undoes Reforms
1907
Triple Entente (GB, Fr., Rus.)
1907
Bosnian Crisis
1908 - 1909
Balkan Wars
1912 - 1913
Lenin's Reign
1917 - 1924
The Russian Revolution
1917 - 1921
March Revolution
March 1917
Tsar abdicates
Duma reconvenes to form provisional government
Bolshevik Revolution
November 1917
Civil War
1918 - 1921
July 1981, Tsar and family murdered
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918
Lenin's NEP
1921
Formal Establishment of the USSR
1922
Stalin's Reign
1924 - 1953
Khruschev's Reign
1953 - 1964
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Brezhnev's Reign
1964 - 1982
Gorbachev's Reign
1985 - 1991
Commonwealth of Independent States Replaces the USSR
1991
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