Important Dates AP Euro

Constantinople

1453

Printing Press

1455

Columbus sails across Atlantic

1492

95 Theses

1517

Peace of Augsburg/Charles V Adbicates

1555

Spanish Armada

1588

Edict of Nantes, Henry IV France

1598

Defenestration of Prague - start of 30 Years War

1618

Peace of Westphalia

1648

1661-1715

Louis XIV rules

1715

Louis XIV dies

1776

Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (foundation for capitalism)

1789

Beginning of French Rev (Bastille, Tennis Court Oath)

1803

Napoleon crowns himself emperor

1815

Battle of Waterloo, Congress of Vienna

19th century

Industrialization across Europe

1830/1848

Revolutions and uprisings in Europe

1848

Communist Manifesto

1871

Franco-Prussian War, Unification of Germany under Bismarck

1905

Bloody Sunday, begins Russian Revolution

1914

The Spark- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip

1917

Russian Revolution

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1923

hyperinflation, Lenin dies - Stalin rises

1933

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Sep 1 1939

Ww2 begins with Blitzkrieg invasion of Poland

1945

Ww2 Ends

1961

Berlin Wall Built, divides East and West Berlin

1968

Prague Spring

1979

Soviets invade Afghanistan

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1991

Soviet Union collapses

2002

Introduction of the Euro as currency