AP European History — Periods I-III: Dates

1347

Black Plague

1400s

Italian Renaissance

1453

Fall of Constantinople to Ottomans

1455

Printing Press

1480-1750

Witch Hunts

1490s

Northern Renaissance

1500s

Age of Exploration

1500-1700

Commercial Revolution

1517

Martin Luther & 95 Theses — Reformation

1520s

Spanish Colonization of New World

1527

Sack of Rome — End of Renaissance

1534

Henry VIII and Anglican Church

1543

Scientific Revolution

1545

Council of Trent — Catholic (or Counter) Reformation

1555

Peace of Augsburg

1588

Spanish Armada (beginning of end of Spain)

1598

Edict of Nantes

1600s

Golden Age of Dutch Republic

1603

Queen Elizabeth I dies — end of Tudor Rule

1645

English Civil War

1648

Treaty of Westphalia (Thirty Years War)

1600-1800

Agricultural Revolution: Dutch and British

1653-1658

Military rule in England under Cromwell

1690-1789

Enlightenment

1689

Glorious Revolution (Britain = Constitutional Monarchy)

1690

Reign of Sun King in France — Louis XIV — Absolute Monarchs

1715

Peace of Utrecht

1720-1789

Population in Europe grows

1780

Industrial revolution begins in Britian

1789

French Revolution Begins

1799-1815

Napoleon Reigns

1807

British slave trade abolished

1815

Congress of Vienna (Waterloo) - Napoleon wars done

1815-1848

Age of Metternich - Conservatism

1821

Greek Wars for Independence

1848

Revolutions of 1848 - Communist Manifesto

1845-1852

Potato Famine in Ireland

1850s

Realism Art movement begins

1851

Crystal Palace in Great Britain - height of Industrial Revolution

1853-1856

Crimean War

1859

Charles Darwin writes “On Origin of Species”

1861

Italy starts unifying, serfs freed in Russia, U.S. Civil War

1866

Austrian-Prussian War (German War of Unification)

1871

Franco-Prussian War - Germany is unified

1870-1914

Second Industrial Revolution

1884

Berlin Conference on Africa (Imperialism)

1905

Bloody Sunday - 1st Russian Revolution begins