AP euro unit 1-2 key dates

1347-48

Black Death into Europe

c. 1453

Gutenberg invents the printing press with movable type

1453

Ottomans take Constantinople

1469

Ferdinand and Isabella marry, unification of Spain begins

1485

War of the Roses ends, Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII

1492

Columbus 'discovers America'/Reconquista of Spain

1517

Martin Luther's 95 Theses

1520

Peak of Italian Renaissance

1527

Rome sacked by HRE, 'end' of the Renaissance

1534

Act of Supremacy, England establishes its own church

1545-1563

Council of Trent

1545

Discovery of silver at Potosí

1555

Peace of Augsburg (religion of the prince is religion of the people)

1558-1603

Reign of Elizabeth I

1588

English defeat of Spanish Armada

1598

Henry IV issues Edict of Nantes

17th century

Baroque art

1640s

English Civil War

1618-1648

Thirty Years' War/Treaty of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War

1643-1715

Reign of Louis XIV

1649

Execution of Charles I of England ends English Civil War

1682-1725

Reign of Peter the Great

1685

Revocation of Edict of Nantes

1687

Publication of Newton's Principia

1688/89

Glorious Revolution in Britain

1707

Act of Union/Great Britain created

1713

Treaty of Utrecht ends War of the Spanish Succession

1740

Frederick II 'the Great' begins reign

c. 1750-1850

First Industrial Revolution

1748

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (ends War of Austrian Succession)

1756-1763

Seven Years' War- 'start' of the American colonies' power