1450
Height of Renaissance/Invention of the Printing Press
1517
95 Theses (was on Halloween 10/31)
1555
Peace of Augsburg
1588
Defeat of the Spanish Armada Invasion
1603
Death of Elizabeth I/Switch from Tudors to Stuarts
1618
Beginning of the 30 Years' War
1648
Peace of Westphalia (last of Religious Wars)
1687
Isaac Newton writes principia mathematica /Scientific Revolution
1688
Glorious Revolution
1715
Death of Louis XIV, longest reigning monarch in Euro History (63 yrs)
1759
Voltaire writes Candid Enlightenment
1789
Start of French Revolution
1815
Congress of Vienna
1830/1848
Revolutions in France/Europe and Latin America
1848
Marx writes Communist Manifesto
1870/1871
Italian and German Unification
1914
WWI
1929
Depression
1945
End of WWII
1968
Revs against Communism
1989
Fall of Berlin Wall
1991
Fall of USSR
2001
Global War on Terror
2002
Euro introduced as currency in the EU