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The Renaissance
14th - 16th
The Age of Exploration
16th
The Spanish Golden Age
16th
Commercial Revolution
16th - 17th
The Reformation
16th
French Civil War (War of the Three Henrys)
16th
Dutch Revolt
16th
The era of Religious Wars
16th - 17th
Agricultural Revolution
17th
Old Imperialism
16th - 18th
Invention of the Printing Press
1454
Luther's 95 Theses
1517
Peace of Augsburg
1555
Catholic Council of Trent/Counter Reformation
1545
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588
Edict of Nantes
1598
Thirty Years War
1618 - 1648
Peace of Westphalia
1648
Age of Absolutism
17th
Age of Constitutionalism
17th
The Dutch Golden Age
17th
The Scientific Revolution
17th
The Enlightenment
18th
Age of Enlightened Monarchs
18th
The beginning of the 1st Industrial Revolution
18th (~1750)
English Civil War
1642 - 1649
Glorious Revolution in England
1688
Peace of Utrecht
1713
Beginning of the French Revolution
1789
Napoleon comes to power (coup d'etat)
1799
Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo
1815
Age of Ideologies (Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Romanticism)
19th
The beginning of the 2nd Industrial Revolution
19th
New Imperialism
19th
Congress of Vienna
1815
Failed Revolutions in France, Austria, Hungary and Italy
1848
Italian Unification
1870
German Unification
1871
Totalitarianism
20th
World War I
1914 - 1918
Russian Revolution
1917
Treaty of Versailles
1919
Age of Anxiety (Interwar)
1919 - 1939
World War II
1939 - 1945
Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
1945
Economic Miracle, Economic Unity (Western Europe), Modern Welfare State
After 1945
The Cold War
1945 - 1989
French Student Uprising
1968
Revolutions in Eastern European satellite nations to bring down communism
1989
End of the Soviet Union
1991
Maastricht Treaty
1992