Ap Euro hub dates

1450s

Printing press spreads Renaissance and Vernacular Literature (languages)

1492

Reconquista and Columbus sailed to Americas

1517

Martin Luther posted the 95 theses

1555

Pace of Augsburg (a treaty that ending conflict between the Catholics and Lutherans within the Holy Roman Empire)

1648

The peace of Westphalia (end of thirty years’ war)

1683

Austria defeated the Ottoman Empire at the battle of Vienna

1688

The Glorious Revolution

1750

Baroque art stops promoting religion and monarchical power

1776

Adam Smith published the wealth of nations

1789

The French Revolution begins

1804

Haiti becomes and independent nation

1815

End of the napoleonic wars (Waterloo) and congress of Vienna

1848

Revolutions across Europe (Potato famine and communist manifesto)

1853

Crimean war

1861

Italian unification

1870-1914

Second Industrial Revolution

1871

German unification

1885

Berlin Conference

1890

Bismarck’s dismissal leads to alliance system

1894

The Dreyfus affair

1905

Russo-Japanese war and (first) Russian Revolution

1914

World war 1 begins

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1929

Great Depression in Europe begins (with US stock markets crash)

1939

Nazi Soviet pact

1945

Yalta Conference

1956

Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization fails economically (and Hungary rebels)

1968

Prague spring in Czechoslovakia

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1991

USSR collapse and end of the Cold War

1993

European Union begins