European History Timeline

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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