AP EURO Timeline Project – A
Put the following in Chronological Order.
Put the correct dates, a couple of dashes, and
then event below
Highlight it with the appropriate colors:
o Social – religious, journalists, workers,
women, children, social classes,
education, poor, food, agriculuture,
social commentators,
o Politics – kings, leaders, law, war,
government, revolts, political writers,
o Intellectual – scientists, math, nonfiction, writers, philosophy,
astronomers,
o Cultural – painters, sculptors, music,
fiction, architects
o Economics – money , trade, taxes,
currency, exploration
o Diplomacy – peace, treaties,
agreements
Email me project at:
Charlie.houchens@laurel.kyschools.us
Elizabeth becomes queen
Elizabeth dies
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Henry of Navarre becomes king
Edict of Nantes
Peace of Westphalia
Peace of Augsburg
Henry VIII becomes king
Henry VIII dies
Da vinci paints Mona Lisa
Da vinci paints Last Supper
Michelangelo sculpts the David
Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel
St. Peters’ Basilica built
France vs. Spain/HRE in the Italian Wars
Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis
Peasants Revolt
Diet of Worms
Charles V becomes HRE emperor
Ferdinand and Isabella marry
Columbus sails west
Vasco De Gama sails around Africa
Magellan’s voyage around the world
Phillip II becomes king of Spain
30 Years War begins
English Civil War
King James Bible printed
Johannes Guttenburg Printing Press
Machiavelli publishes the Prince
Constantinople falls
Botticelli’s Primavera
Cervantes Don Quixote
El Greco born
English Civil War begins
John Calvin prints Institutes of the Christian Religion
Enclosure Acts
Raphael paints School of Athens
Jan Van Eyck paints Wedding of Arnolfini
Peter Brughal paints Wedding Feast
Erasmus writes In Praise of Folly
Thomas More prints Utopia
Thomas More executed
French Wars of Religion begin (approximately)
Cortes conquers Aztecs
Pizarro conquers Incas
Dutch Revolt begins
Spain invades Granada
Martin Luther dies
John Calvin dies
Marbourg Colloquy
Spanish Armada
Dante’s Inferno
Spenger and Kramer’s Witches Hammer
Inquisition arrives in Spain
Jan Huss burned
Medicis flee Florence
Da Vinci dies
Phillip II of Spain dies
Petrarch dies
Pope Leo X endorses indulgences
Council of Trent
Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuits
King Gustavus Adolphus killed
Father Bartolome De Las Casas writes Charles V
William Shakespeare born
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
Charles I executed
Rump Parliament
Oliver Cromwell dies
Navigation Acts passed
AP EURO Timeline Project – B
Voltaire’s Candide
Diderot’s Enclycolpedia
John Lock’s 2nd Treatise of Government
Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws
Rousseau’s Emile
Catherine the Great begins her rule
1st Partition of Poland
2nd Partition of Poland
3rd Partition of Poland
Pugachev’s Rebellion
Reign of Louis XIV begins
Peter the Great rule begins
Peter the Great dies
Northern Wars begins
Northern Wars ends
Rembrant paints Night Watch
Jan Vermeer paints the Astronomer
Jean Baptist Colbert hired
War of Spanish Succession begins
War with the League of Augsburg begins
The Seven Years War begins
The War of Austrian Succesion begins
Treaty of Paris 1763
Peace of Utrect
Cesare Bonesona write on Crime and Punishment
Maria Theresa’s rule begins
Fredrick the Great’s rule begins
Cardinal Richelieu becomes First Minister
Richelieu at La Rochelle
The Fronde War
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies
George Handel dies
Joseph II’s rule begins
Adam Smith writes the Wealth of Nations
Isaac Newton’s theory on universal gravitation
Isaac Newton dies
Descartes Discourse on Method
Descartes dies
Frances Bacon dies
Galileo on trial
Galileo dies
Johanness Kepler’s 3 Laws of Pl. Motion
Copernicus dies
William Harvey dies
Vesalius dies
William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
The Hanover’s becomes kings of England
Glorious Revolution
Act of Union
King moves to the Palace of Versailles
Duke of Alba arrives in the Netherlands
The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
Henry IV of France becomes king
Edict of Nantes
Cardinal Mazarin becomes First Minister
Death of Mazarin
Ivan the Terrible dies
Construction of St. Petersburg begins
The American Revolution
The French Revolution
The Committee of Public Safety established
Robespierre executed
The Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte born
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Sieyes What is the Third Estate?
Tennis Court Oath
King Louis XVI executed
Marie Antoinette executed
Bastille raided
Declaration of the Rights of Man/Citizen (FR)
Declaration of Pillnitz
The Code of Napoleon
The Concordat
Confederation of the Rhine organized
The Continental System
Grand Army invades Russia
Napoleon exiled to Elba
The 100 Days begin
The Battle of Waterloo
The Congress of Vienna
Napoleon exiled to St. Helena
Jean Jacques David paints the
The Wilkes Affair
John Kay’s flying shuttle
James Hargreaves spinning jenny
Edmund Cartwright’s power loom
Richard Arkwright’s water frame
James Watt’s improved steam engine
Henry Cort’s puddling furnace
Jeremy Bentham
David Ricardo’s iron law of wages
Thomas Malthus’ book
Mary Wollstonecraft prints
Margaret Cavendish dies
Isabella D’ Este
AP EURO Timeline Project - C
John Kay’s Flying Shuttle
James Hargreaves’ Spinning Jenny
Richard Arkwright’s Water Frame
Edmund Cartwright’s Power Loom
George Stephenson’s Rocket
Henry Cort’s puddling process
Thomas Malthus population index
David Ricardo Iron Law of Wages
Irish Potato Famine
James Watt’s separate condenser for steam pwr
Poor Law of 1834
John Wesley builds a Methodist Church
Luddites
William Corbett starts a newspaper
St. Simon prints….
Charles Fourier prints….
Louis Blanc prints …..
Freidrich Engels prints Concerning the Working Class…
Karl Marx prints the Communist Manifesto
Robert Owen dies
Beethoven publishes 9th Symphony
Richard Wagner’s Cry of the Valkries
Percy Shelly prints…
Lord Byron prints….
Mary Shelly prints Frankenstein
Bram Stoker prints Dracula
Charlotte Bronte prints Jane Eyre and Withering
Heights
Sir Walter Scott prints Ivanhoe and Rob Roy
Victor Hugo prints Les Miserables and The Hunchback
Wolfgang Von Goethe publishes. …
Nicole Pagini publishes ….
British Medical Society established
Bursenschafts formed
Carlsbad Decrees
Congress of Vienna
Metternich resigns from office
The Greek Revolt of 1821
Zollverein formed
Friedrich List prints…..
Delacroix paints Massacre at Chios
Delacroix paints Liberty Leading the People
Goya paints The Shooting of May 3rd 1808
Greek Independence of 1832
Death of Czar Alexander I
Czar Nicholas I coronation/death
Decembrist Revolt
Louis XVIII made king of France/death
Charles X coronation/abdication
The July Days
King Louis Phillip/Bourgeoisie King coronation and
abdication
Belgium Independence granted
Polish Revolt
Giuseppe Mazzini prints ……
Queen Victoria coronation/death
Catholics gain rights in England in 1929
Reform Bill of 1832
Slavery Abolished in British Empire in 1833
Chartists
Corn Laws repealed
France February Revolt of 1848
German States Revolt of 1848
France June Revolt of 1848
Louis Napoleon elected president/declared
emperor/abdicates
Frankfurt Assembly
Louis Kossuth dies
Austrian Revolt of 1848
Camillo de Cavour becomes prime minister
Garibaldi attacks Naples
Victor Emmanuel crowned king of Italy
Otto Von Bismarck born/dies/iron and blood
speech/Realpolitik/kulturekampt/
Bismarck’s wars with Denmark/Austria
Franco Prussian War of 1870
Wilhelm I crowned King of Germany
Augsleich
Darwin prints the Origin of Species
The Great Exposition of 1851
The Crimean War begins/ends
William Gladstone becomes PM (evry time)
Benjamin Disraeli becomes PM
Reform Bill of 1867
Paris Commune
The Third Republic of France begins
Boulanger Affair
Dreyfuss Affair
Emile Zola writes J’Accuse
Alexander Pushkin prints….
Fydor Dostoyevsky prints On Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy prints War and Peace
Czar Alexander II coronation/frees the serfs/killed
Louis Pasteur’s Germ Theory
Curie’s experiments with x-rays/radium
Henry Bessemer perfects steel
Max Rutherford prints….(particle physics)
Max Planck prints…(quantum)
George Hausmann begins remodeling Paris
Monet paints…..
Manet paints….
Renoir paints….
Kipling prints The White Man’s Burden
Herbert Spencer prints….
Britain gains the Suez Canal
Fashoda Crisis
Lepold II in Belgium
British crisis in Khartoum
Battle of Omdurman
Berlin Conference
Italy invades Ethiopia
Boer War
Sepoy Mutiny in India
Opium Wars
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