Ap Euro 1450-2002

ap euro dates

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