Important Years in AP Euro

The Crusades

1095-1291

Black Death

1347-1351

Fall of Constantinople

1453

End of the Hundred Years War

1453

Invention of printing press

1455

Columbian Exchange

1492

Luther posts 95 theses

1517

Peace of Augsburg

1555

Edict of Nantes

1598

Defenestration of Prague (start of Thirty Years' War)

1618

Peace of Westphalia (end of Thirty Years' War)

1648

Glorious Revolution

1688

French Revolution begins

1789

Abdication of Napoleon & Congress of Vienna

1815

Revolutions across Europe

1848

Marx and Engels Publish the Communist Manifesto

1848

Unification of Italy

1861

Unification of Germany

1871

Berlin Conference

1884-1885

Russian revolution that leads Tsar Nicholas II to create the Duma

1905

World War I begins

1914

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

1917

Treaty of Versailles ends World War I

1919

Peak of German hyperinflation

1923

Great Depression begins

1929

Hitler comes to power in Germany

1933

Invasion of Poland & beginning of World War II

1939

World War II ends & United Nations founded

1945

Berlin Wall built

1961

Gorbachev comes to power in Soviet Union

1985

Berlin Wall falls

1989

Break-up of Soviet Union & conflicts begin in former Yugoslavia

1991

Maastricht Treaty creates European Union (EU)

1992