AP Euro Summer Work- Events

Critical patterns and events

1300-1560

Hundred Year’s War, Black Death, The Renaissance, Protestant Reformation

1560-1648

Opening of the Atlantic, Wars of Catholic Spain, Rise in Mercantilism, Wars of Religion

1648-1715

English Civil War, Rise in Absolution, Fights for the Balance of Power, Scientific Revolution

1715-1780

The War of Austrian Succession, The Seven Years’ Wars, The Enlightenment

1789-1815

Industrial Revolution, Napoleon’s Rise to Power and Spread of his Empire, The Reign of Terror

1815-1848

Calls for Reformation and Change, Romanticism, Revolutions of 1830, Ideologies of Change

1848-1871

Freedom for Peasants, Realism embraced, Consolidation of Nation States, Crimean War

1871-1914

Second Industrial Revolution, Europe Increases Influence over Global Politics, Rise in Imperialism, Migration from Europe

1919-1939

Western Allies complete the Versailles treaty, Treaty of Sevres breaks up the Ottoman Empire, Establishment of the USSR