1300’s (14th century) 1500’s (16th century) * Rise of Bourbons * Frederick William the 1700’s (18th century)
High Middle Ages Northern Renaissance * Edict of Nantes Great Elector Enlightenment
- Abdication of Charles V - Dutch Republic established
Decline of the Church Reformation (1555) - Dutch Economic dominance
Nation States Emerge
Renaissance Religious Wars * Spanish Hapsburgs - Development of Mercant. Absolutism
- “Calamitous 14th Counter Reformation * Austrian Hapsburgs - Fronde Rebellion Industrial Revolution
Century” Age of Discovery - Philip II & “Militant - Emergence of France as (1750)
- Avignon Papacy Catholicism” preeminent. - War of Spanish Succession
- Great Schism
Empire Building
- Charles V vs. Francis I * Lepanto * Richelieu - Peace of Utrecht
- Hundred Years War - Revolt of the Netherlands * Reign of Louis XIV - Enlightenment is born
- Conciliar Movement - Italian Wars
- Sack of Rome Begins (1566) * Colbert - Growth of Music
- The Plague * Pacification of Ghent - Wars of Louis XIV - Salons are born
- Peasant Revolts -Circumnavigation
- European Conquest of * Spanish Armada - Foundation of Absolutism - Enlightened Absolutism
(England & France) - English “Golden Age” - English Revolution - Decline of Dutch
- Population Boom Americas
- Time of Troubles (Elizabeth I) * Civil War 1642 – 1646 - Rise of Prussia
1400’s (15th century) - Machiavelli writes The - Copernicus presents Helio- * Commonwealth est. - Reign of Frederick II
Renaissance Prince centrism - Anglo-Dutch Wars - Pragmatic Sanction
“New Monarchies” - Martin Luther’s 95 Theses Price Revolution - Stuart Restoration 1660 - War of Austrian Succession
Age of Discovery - Zwingli begins Swiss 1600’s (17th century) - Glorious Revolution 1688 - Reign of Catherine the
Reformation (Zurich) Reformation - Ascension of Romanovs Great
Modern States - Beginning of Peter the - Partition’s of Poland
* Marburg Colloquy Religious Wars
- War of the Roses
(1529) Great’s reign. - The Seven Year’s War
- Italian dominance Counter Reformation * Great Northern War - Agricultural Revolution
- Calvin’s Church at Geneva
- Burning of Jan Hus
- Anabaptists groups formed
Empire Building ** Poltava - The population of Europe
- Invention of Printing Economic Revolution - Peter visits the West booms
- Hapsburg – Valois Wars
- Rule of the Medici - Decline of Poland - The “new finance”
- Battle of Mohacs Scientific Revolution
- Humanism - Galileo tried by inquisition - The dominance of
- Defeat of Ottomans at - Twelve Year Truce (1609)
- Fall of Constantinople - Newton writes his best work aristocracy
Vienna - Height of Witchcraft craze
- Height of Ren. Art - Scientific Method, - Sir Robert Walpole’s tenure
- Peasant Revolt of 1525 - Thirty Year’s War
-Unification of France Descartes & Bacon - French Revolution
- Diet of Augsburg * Battle of White
- Unification of Spain - Establishment of Scientific * Calling of Estates Gen.
- Peace of Augsburg Mountain
(1492) societies. * Tennis Court Oath
- English Reformation * Edict of Restitution
- Beginning of Italian Wars - Rise of English prominence * National Assembly
- Council of Trent * Battle of Lutzen
- Rounding of the Cape of * Bastille & March
- Ignatius Loyola founds the * Peace of Westphalia
Good Hope * Dec. of R of M. & C.
Society of Jesus - Brandenburg-Prussia est.
- “Discovery” of America * Jacobin ascendancy
- French Wars of Religion (Hohenzollern)
* St. Barts Day Massacre * Reign of Terror
1800’s (19th century) * Carlsbad Decrees ‘ Hungary (Kossuth) - Kulturkampf - Popular Front Mvmts
- Greek Independence ‘ Vienna Falls - Three Emperor’s League - Rise of Totalitarianism
Industrial Revolution - Tory rule in Britain ‘ Metternich flees 1900’s (20th century) - Mussolini & fascism
Age of Revolution * Corn Laws ‘ Russian intervention * Black Shirts
* Peterloo Massacre * Italy “New Imperialism” (to * March on Rome
Romanticism
- Whig Rule in Britain ‘ Failure of Italians 1914) * Corporatism
Age of Metternich (to - Benjamin Disraeli - Second Empire of France * Reconciliation with Church
Total War
1848) - William Gladstone - Crimean War - Spanish Civil War
- Poor Law - Unification of Italy Age of Anxiety (1919 – - Weimar Germany
Age of Realpolitik (after
- Decembrist Uprising * Cavour 1939) - Rise of NSDAP
1850) * Nicholas I * Victor Emmanuel II * Beer Hall Putsch
Age of Totalitarianism
Nationalism - Instituting the principles of * Piedmont-Sardinia * SA
Cold War
“New Imperialism” Smith, Malthus, & Ricardo * Napoleon III * Mein Kampf
- Population Boom - German Cultural Identity * Garibaldi’s March De-colonization * Lebensraum
- Urbanization * Hegel - Eastern Question - Russo-Japanese War * Reichstag Fire
- Agricultural/technological * Herder - Unification of Germany - Revolution of 1905 (Russia) * Enabling Act
Boom * Brothers Grimm * Bismarck * Bloody Sunday * Nuremberg Rally/Acts
- Creation of the Factory System - Zollverein * Danish War * Duma * Kristallnacht
- Birth of urban reform - Revolutions of 1830 * Austro-Prussian War - SDP in Germany - NEP
- Humanitarianism * France *Franco-Prussian War - Entente Cordial formed - Stalinist Power Struggle
- Socialism ‘ Charles X - Dual Monarchy - First & Second Balkan Crisis - Five Year Plans
- Marxism ‘ July Monarchy - 1861 Emancipation Edict - Einstein - Great Purge
- Success of liberalism ‘ Louis Philippe - “Great Reforms” (Alexander II) - Freud - Collectivization
- Classical Conservatism * Others - Victorian Age - WWI - Dada Mvmt
- Luddites ‘Belgian Ind. - Origin of Species pub. - Treaty of Versailles - Appeasement
- People’s Charter ‘ Italy (Mazzini) - Kulturkampf - Russian Revolution - Occ. of Rhineland
- Factory Act (19th cent. reform) ‘ Poland (Russia) - Growth of Medicine * Bolsheviks - Anschluss
- Great Exhibition (1851) ‘ Germany * Pasteur * Mensheviks - Sudetenland
* Crystal Palace - Revolutions of 1848 * Lister * Czar N. II - Saar Plebiscite
- Age of Napoleon * France - “World Economy” * WWI - Munich Pact
- Napoleonic Wars ‘ Banquets - Social Problems * March 1917 - Nazi-Soviet Pact
* Napoleonic Code ‘ Louis Philippe flees - Emigration * “April Theses” - Invasion of Poland
* Continental System ‘ Louis Blanc - Irish Famine * July 1917 - WWII
* Concordat of 1801 (workshops) - Social Darwinism * November 1917 - Collaborationists
* Invasion of Russia ‘ June Days - Women’s Suffrage * Civil War * Hungary
* Waterloo ‘ Louis Napoleon takes * Emmeline Pankhurst - 1921 Reparations Bill * Vichy France
* Confederation of the Rhine control - Berlin Conference - Dawes Plan - Resistance mvmts.
- Congress of Vienna ‘ Second Republic - Opium War - Young Plan - Holocaust
- Metternich System * Germany - Boer War - Locarno Treaties - Lend-Lease
* Concert of Europe ‘ Frankfurt Assembly - “Spheres of Influence” - Kellogg-Briand Pact - Atlantic Charter
* Austrian Empire - Scramble for Africa - Great Depression - San Francisco Conf. (’45)
- Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
- Cold War
- Berlin Blockade/Airlift
- Marshall Plan
- NATO
- Warsaw Pact
- COMECON
- de-Stalinization
- Berlin Wall
- Yugoslavia
* Tito
- 1956 Uprisings
* Poland
* Hungary
* Czechoslovakia
- DeGaulle & 5th Republic
- French Uprising of 1968
- Czech “Prague Spring
Uprising” (1968)
- Welfare States
- Détente
- Khrushchev Era
- Brezhnev Era
- Gorbachev Era
- European Common Market
- European Economic Comm.
- Feminist Mvmt.
- Protest mvmts.
- Collapse of Soviet Union
* Perestroika
* Glasnost
* Economic prob.
- Solidarity mvmt.
- German Re-unification
- Serbian Crisis
- Chechen Crisis
- Maastricht Treaty
- European Union