AP Euro hub dates

1450s

1450s

Printing press spreads Renaissance and vernacular literature

1492

reconquista and Columbus sailed to Americas

1517

Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses

1555

Peace of Augsburg

1648

the Peace of Westphalia (end of 30 Years’ War)

1683 - Austria defeated Ottoman Empire at 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 an independent nation

1815

Congress of Vienna and End of the Napoleonic Wars (Waterloo)

1848

 Revolutions Across Europe (Potato Famine & Communist Manifesto)

1870-1914 - Second Industrial Revolution

1871

German Unification

1885

Berlin Conference

1890-Bismarck’s dismissal leads to alliance system

1905-Russo-Japanese War and (first) Russian Revolution

1914

World War I begins

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1929

Great Depression in Europe Begins (with US Stock Market 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