AP European History Dates

Avignon Papacy

1309–1377

Gutenberg's movable type printing press

1450s

Fall of Constantinople

1453

Treaty of Lodi

1454

Pazzi Conspiracy in Florence

1478

Death of Lorenzo de' Medici

1492

End of the Reconquista

1492

Expulsion of Jews from Spain

1492

Columbus' first voyage to the New World

1492

French invasion of Italy

1494

Savonarola's power in Florence

1494–1498

Machiavelli wrote The Prince

1513

Luther's 95 Theses

1517

Spanish conquest of the Aztecs

1519–1521

Luther at the Diet of Worms

1521

Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe

1519–1522

German Peasants' Revolt

1524–1525

Spanish conquest of the Incas

1531–1533

Act of Supremacy in England

1534

Society of Jesus recognized by Catholic Church

1540

Copernicus wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

1543

Council of Trent

1545–1563

French Wars of Religion

1562–1598

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

1572

Henry IV issues the Edict of Nantes

1598

Galileo wrote Starry Messenger

1610

Thirty Years' War

1618–1648

Defenestration of Prague

1618

English Civil War

1642–1648

Treaty of Westphalia

1648

The Fronde

1648–1653

Hobbes wrote Leviathan

1651

The Restoration

1660

Edict of Fontainebleau (Louis XIV's Revocation of Edict of Nantes)

1685

Newton's Principia Mathematica

1687

Glorious Revolution

1688

Locke wrote the Second Treatise and Essay Concerning Human Understanding

1690

Peter the Great's Grand Embassy

1697–1698

Great Northern War (Russia vs. Sweden)

1700–1721

War of the Spanish Succession

1701–1714

The Renaissance

Late 14th (1300s) to mid-16th (1500s) centuries

The Reformation and Counter-Reformation

1517–1648

The Enlightenment

Late 17th century to 1800

Rousseau's Social Contract and Emile

1762

The French Revolution

1789–1799

Storming of the Bastille

1789

Reign of Terror

1793–1794

Napoleon came to power

1799

Napoleon becomes emperor of France

1804

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

1812

Napoleon's defeat and first exile

1814

Congress of Vienna

1814–1815

The Peterloo Massacre

1819

The Decembrists' failed uprising in Russia

1825

The Revolution of 1830 in France

1830

Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto

1848

Revolutions of 1848

1848

Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

1859

1861

Italy Unification

1870-1871

Franco-Prussian War

1871

German Unification

1870-1914

New Imperialism