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Renaissance

Renaissance

1350-1550

Exploration

1450-1600

Protestant and Catholic Reformation

sixteenth century (1500s)

Religious Wars

1520s-1650

Early Modern Society

1500-1700

Price Revolution

sixteenth century (1500s)

Dutch Commercial Dominance

1550-1650

Age of Crisis

1550-1650

Witchcraft Scare

1580-1680

Scientific Revolution

1543-1687

Baroque Art

1600-1750

Conflict between Parliament and King in England

1603-1689

Age of Louis XIV

1643-1715

Absolutism

1650-1750

Commercial Wars

1650-1763

Rise of Prussia

1650-1763

Commercial Revolution

seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1600s + 1700s)

Rococo Art

1720-1760

Rise of the Middle Class

eighteenth century (1700s)

Enlightenment

eighteenth century (1700s)

Agricultural Revolution

eighteenth century (1700s)

Age of Revolutions

1789-1848

Feminism

1790s-1980s

Romanticism

first half of nineteenth century (1800-1850)

Rise of Nationalism

1790s-1914

Unification and Nation-Builiding

1850-1875

Rise of Liberalism

1830s-1870s

Industrial Revolution

1750-1850

Realism and Materialism

1850-1870s

Second Industrial Revolution

1850-1914

Imperialism

1850-1914

Modern Ideas and Science

1850-1920s

Modern Art

1870-1920

Rise of Modern Society

second half of nineteenth century (1850s-1900)

Totalitarianism

1920s-1945

World Wars

1914-1945

Cold War

1945-1991

European Unity

1945-present

Black Death

1348-1351

Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism

1415-1417

Fall of Constantinople; end of Hundred Years' War

1453

Invention of printing press

1455

Columbus encounters America; completion of reconquista in Spain

1492

Luther posts 95 Theses

1517

Cortez conquers Aztecs

1519

Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church

1534

Calvin establishes reformed faith in Geneva

1536

Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory

1543

Council of Trent opens

1545

Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany; Charles V abdicates

1555

Defeat of Spanish Armada

1588

Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars

1598

Dutch East India Company founded

1600

Stuart monarchy begins in England

1603

Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War

1648

Charles I executed in England

1649

Newton publishes Principia Mathematica

1687

Glorious Revolution; Peter the Great's reign begins in Russia

1688-1689

Bank of England founded

1694

Peace of Utrecht; death of Louis XIV

1713-1715

War of Austrian Succession begins

1740

Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War

1763

American Revolution; Smith publishes Wealth of Nations

1776

French Revolution begins

1789

Wollstonecraft begins feminist movement with Vindication of Rights if Women

1792

Napoleon comes to power in France

1799

Abdication of Napoleon; Congress of Vienna

1815

Revolution in France; Belgian and Greek independence

1830-1831

Revolutions of 1848; Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto

1848

Crystal Palace Exhibition in Britain

1851

Britain establishes direct rule of India

1857

Darwin publishes Origin of Species

1859

Italy unified; Russian serfs emancipated

1861

Unification of Germany; Paris Commune and Third Republic in France

1871

Berlin Conference over imperialism in Africa

1884-1885

Freud publishes interpretation of dreams

1900

Einstein publishes relativity theory; Revolution of 1905 in Russia

1905

World War I begins

1914

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

1917

Treaty of Versailles ends World War I

1919

Fascists and Mussolini come to power in Italy

1922

Great Depression begins

1929

Hitler comes to power in Germany

1933

Munich Conference-height of appeasement

1938