AP Euro Dates

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Important Dates in Modern European History

  1. 1414-1418 Council of Constance
  2. 1415 Portuguese took Ceuta, Morocco - started Age of Exploration
  3. 1438 Pragmatic Sanction
  4. 1450 Movable printing press
  5. 1452-1519 Da Vinci
  6. 1453 Ottomans capture Constantinople
  7. 1469-1527 Machiavelli
  8. 1485 Henry VII (Tudors) becomes first Tudor king of England
  9. 1492 Expulsion of Jews from Spain
  10. 1509 Erasmus, Praise of Folly
  11. 1512 Lateran Council; start of Reformation
  12. 1513 Machiavelli, The Prince
  13. 1516 More, Utopia
  14. 1516 Concordat of Bologna; start of Religious wars
  15. 1517 Luther’s Ninety-Five theses
  16. 1519-1556 Charles V Holy Roman Emperor
  17. 1519-1522 Magellan circumnavigates the globe
  18. 1524-1525 Peasant’s Revolt in Germany
  19. 1527 Imperial sack of Rome
  20. 1528 Castiglione, Book of the Courtier
  21. 1532-1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome
  22. 1534 Act of Supremacy
  23. 1541 Calvin establishes a theocracy in Geneva
  24. 1550-1725 Baroque movement
  25. 1555 Peace of Augsburg
  26. 1556-1598 Philip II of Spain
  27. 1561-1626 Francis Bacon
  28. 1563 End of Council of Trent; end of Reformation
  29. 1564-1642 Galileo
  30. 1566-1609 Revolt in the Netherlands
  31. 1572 St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
  32. 1588 Defeat of Spanish armada
  33. 1588-1679 Thomas Hobbes
  34. 1598 Edict of Nantes
  35. 1584-1613 Time of Troubles in Russia
  36. 1603 Death of Elizabeth I; end of the Renaissance
  37. 1618-1648 Thirty Years’ war
  38. 1625-1649 Reign of Charles I of England
  39. 1630 Puritans settle Boston
  40. 1642-1649 English Civil war
  41. 1643-1715 Louis XIV
  42. 1648-1660 The Fronde in France
  43. 1651 Navigation Acts
  44. 1658 Cromwell died
  45. 1660 Restoration of English monarchy
  46. 1663-1683 Colbert’s commercialism in France
  47. 1665 Plague hits London
  48. 1666 Great Fire of London
  49. 1673 Test Act in England
  50. 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
  51. 1688-1689 Glorious Revolution in England
  52. 1686 Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
  53. 1687 Newton, Principia
  54. 1689 Montesquieu born; start of the Enlightenment
  55. 1690 Locke, Second Treaties on Civil Government
  56. 1697 Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary
  57. 1694-1778 Voltaire
  58. 1701 Tull invents the seed drill - start of Agricultural Revolution
  59. 1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession
  60. 1701 Foundation of St. Petersburg
  61. 1707 Act of Union with Scotland
  62. 1711-1776 David Hume
  63. 1712 Savery and Newcomen steam pump
  64. 1713-1784 Diderot
  65. 1713 Peace of Utrecht
  66. 1715-1774 Reign of Louis XV of France
  67. 1774-1792 Reign of Louis XVI of France
  68. 1720 Last appearance of the bubonic plague
  69. 1733 Kay's flying shuttle
  70. 1740-48 War of Austrian Succession
  71. 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends war of Austrian Succession
  72. 1740-1786 Reign of Maria Theresa of Austria
  73. 1751-1765 Publication of the Encyclopedia by Diderot and d’alembert
  74. 1756-63 Seven Years War (French and Indian War)
  75. 1756-1791 Mozart
  76. 1762-96 Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia
  77. 1765 Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
  78. 1765 Richard Arkwright invents the water frame
  79. 1814-15 Congress of Vienna
  80. 1819 Battle of Peterloo
  81. 1825 First railroad in Britain
  82. 1830s-40s Height of French Utopian socialism
  83. 1830 Revolution in France
  84. 1832 Reform Bill
  85. 1834 Poor Law Reform
  86. 1839 German Zollverein founded
  87. 1848 Marx, Communist Manifesto
  88. 1848 England complete occupation of India
  89. 1852-1870 Second Empire in France
  90. 1853-1856 Crimean War
  91. 1856-1939 Freud
  92. 1859 Darwin, Origin of Species
  93. 1862-1890 Bismarck in power
  94. 1864-1871 Unification of Germany
  95. 1864 Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors
  96. 1867 Second Reform Bill
  97. 1867 Marx, Das Kapital
  98. 1869 Tolstoy, War and Peace
  99. 1869 Suez canal opens
  100. 1870-1940 Third Republic in France
  101. 1878 Congress of Berlin
  102. 1880-1900 Scramble for Africa
  103. 1898 Fashoda crisis
  104. 1894-1899 Dreyfus case
  105. 1896 Kruger Telegram
  106. 1899-1902 Boer War
  107. 1899 Kipling, "The White Man’s Burden"
  108. 1904 Entente Cordiale (England and France)
  109. 1907 Anglo-Russian Treaty
  110. 1914 World War I
  111. 1916 Easter Rising, Dublin
  112. 1925 Locarno Pact
  113. 1939 Start of World War II in Europe
  114. 1952 Elizabeth II becomes queen
  115. 1956 Suez Crisis
  116. 1972 "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland
  117. 1982 Falkland War
  118. 1770-1827 Beethoven
  119. 1776 Smith, Wealth of Nations
  120. 1789 Start of the French Revolution
  121. 1790-1850 Romantic movement
  122. 1796 Jenner creates smallpox vaccine
  123. 1798 Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population
  124. 1799-1814 Napoleonic era
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