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1450

• Johannes Gutenberg printing press

• beginning of italian renaissance

1492

• Colombus reaches americas

• age of exploration begins

1517

• Luther’s 95 theses

• Beginning of protestant reformation

1555

• Peace of Augsburg

  • “ends” ref

• freedom of religion in HRE

1603

• Death of Queen Elizabeth

• Constitutionalism emerges

1633

• Scientific Revolution

• start of enlightenment

1648

• Peace of Westphalia

  • ends 30 yrs war

• freedom of religion in HRE

1689

• Glorious Revolution

• Constitutional monarchy in GB

• end of the religious period, begins state building period

1713

• Treaty of Ultrecht

  • ends war of spanish sucession

• balance of powers

• france is dominant power

1748

• War of Austrian Succession

  • Aix-La-Chapelle

• Prussia emerges

1763

• Treaty of Paris

  • ends 7 yrs war

• GB is dominant power

1789

• Fall of the Bastille

• Beginning of French Rev

1815

• Fall of Napoleon at waterloo