AP Euro Timeline / Review Terms

1453

Hundred Years’ War Ends

1455

Invention of the Printing Press

1492

Columbus' Voyage to the New World

1517

Protestant Rev

1555

Peace Treaty of Augsburg

1598

Edict of Nantes

1600

Establishment of the Dutch East India Company

1643-1715

Louis XIV's Reign in France

1648

Signing of the Treaty of Westphalia

1688

Glorious Revolution in England and the Enactment of the English Bill of Rights

1763

End of the Seven Years’ War with the Treaty of Paris

1776

Start of the American Revolutionary War

1789-1799

Era of the French Revolution

1799

Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte

1815

Congress of Vienna / the Age of Metternich

1848

Spread of Liberal Revolutions

1861

Italy's Unification / the Emancipation of Serfs in Russia

1884

Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa

1905

Russian Revolution

1914-1918

World War I

1917

Bolshevik Revolution (2nd Russian Revolution)

1918

Treaty of Versailles Marks WWI End

1929

Great Depression Begins with Stock Market Crash

1939-1945

World War II in Europe

1945

Establishment of the United Nations

1949

Formation of NATO

1961

Construction of the Berlin Wall

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1991

Soviet Union Collapse

1992

Creation of the Maastricht Treaty and the European Union

1999

Introduction of the European currency, the Euro

2000

Vladimir Putin's Election as President of Russia

1871

Germany's Unification