AP Euro Date List

small but important date list

1450

1450

invention of the printing press and the height of the Italian renaissance

1517

Martin Luther posts the 95 thesis

1555

Peace of Augsburg

1588

Philip II sends the Spanish armada to England

1603

the death of Elizabeth I

(switch from Tudor family to the Stewart family)

1648

Peace of West Phalia

1687

Newton publishes Principia Mathematica (he was the end of the scientific revolution)

1688

Glorious Revolution

1689

William and Mary sign the English Bill of Rights

1715

Death of Louis XIV

1759

Voltaire writes Candidie

to express freedom from the govt

1789

French Revolution began

(& tennis court oath & the declaration to the rights of men)

1815

the Congress of Vienna

1848

Year of many Revolutions

Karl Marx writes communist manifesto

1870/1871

Italian/German unification

(german-Ottoman Bismarck)

1884-1885

Berlin Conference

(a cause for the scramble of Africa)

1914-1918

World War I

1939-1945

World War II

1968

Prague Spring

(former Czech President, Alexander Dubcek)

and student uprisings in Paris

1989

the fall of the Berlin Wall

1991

the collapse of the Soviet Union

2002

the adoption of the euro

What was the Congress of Vienna?

the need after the defeat of Napoleon to restore the balance of power

What was the Glorious Revolution?

the bloodless transition of power from James II to William and Mary

What was the Peace of Augsburg?

(allow the princes to choose between Catholic or Lutheran for their realm)

What was the Peace of West Phalia?

ended the 30 years war