AP Euro Dates

Act of Supremacy

1534

End of WWI

1918

Book of Common Prayer

1549

Printing press invented

1440

Second Reform Act in England

1867

Sepoy Rebellion

1857

Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary is created

1867

Hitler appointed German Chancellor

1933

Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations"

1776

Execution of Louis XVI

1793

Beginning of the French Revolution

1789

Execution of Robespierre marked end of Reign of Terror

1794

Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power

1799

Paris Student Riots

1968

Start of Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)

1962

Lenin's NEP (New Economic Policy)

1921

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France

1804

Thatcher became PM in Britain

1979

The Concert of Europe or "Age of Metternich”

1815-1848

Congress of Vienna ended Napoleonic Wars

1815

Battle of Waterloo

1815

Picasso's "Guernica"

1937

Munich Conference

1938

End of WWII

1945

Start of WWII

1939

Treaty of Rome created EEC (European Economic Community)

1957

Marx and Engel's "Communist Manifesto"

1848

Great Reform Bill in Britain

1832

The Great Exhibition in London

1851

Alexander II's Emancipation of the Serfs in Russia

1861

Unification of Italy and Germany

1871

Berlin Conference

1884

July Revolution in France

1830

Fall of Berlin Wall and Revolutions in Eastern Europe

1989

Collapse of Soviet Union

1991

Start of Civil War in Yugoslavia

1991

Launch of the Euro

1999

Berlin Wall built

1961

End of the Hundred Years' War

1453

Fall of Granada & completion of Spanish Reconquista

1492

Columbus' expedition to "New World"

1492

Machiavelli's "The Prince"

1513

Luther posted "95 Theses"

1517

Beginning of the Council of Trent

1545

Peace of Augsburg ended the Schmalkaldic Wars

1555

Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams"

1900

Start of World War I

1914

Russian Revolution

1917

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

1588

Glorious Revolution in England

1688

Execution of Charles I in England

1649

Locke's "Two Treatises on Government"

1689

Treaty of Utrecht ended War of Spanish Succession

1713

Act of Union created Great Britain

1707

Enlightenment

1685-1815

Peace of Westphalia ended Thirty Years' War

1648

Defenestration of Prague begins Thirty Years' War

1618

Maastricht Treaty created European Union

1992

Tony Blair's "New Labour" Party took power in Britain

1997

Gorbachev became premier of the Soviet Union

1985

Putin elected president of Russia

2000

Enlightened Despotism

17th and 18th century