HENRY VIII
1509-1547
1455-1485 War of the
Roses
BRITAIN
QUEEN ELIZABETH I
1558-1603
1536- Dissolution of Monasteries
1534- Act of Supremacy
1641-1651 English
1628- PetitionCivil War
of Right
1572- Barthalamewʼs
HENRY OF
Day Massacre
NAVARRE
1431- Joan of Arc burned at stake
1337-1453 Hundred Years War
FERDINAND &
ISABELLA
1474-1504
1519- Cortes lands on the coast of
Mexico
1588- Spanish Armada
1519- Magellan sets out
1478 Inquisition
SPAIN
1492- Reconquista;
Jews expelled from
Spain
1568-1609 Dutch Revolts
1532- Pizzarro conquers Incas
CHARLES V
1519-1556
GERMANY/HOLY
ROMAN EMPIRE
1800- Combination Act
LOUIS XV
1715-1774
LOUIS XIV
1643-1715
political
1415- Henry the
Navigator
OTHER/WORLD CONFLICTS
Eastern EuropeCompetitive Serfdom
1703- St Petersburg
1620- Battle of the
White Mountain
Peace of Westphalia
MARIA
THERESA
1740-1765
1618-1648 30 Yearsʼ War
Development of
commerce, military
1683- Siege of Vienna
1701-1714 War of
Spanish Succession
1498- Savanarola
executed
1715 Peace of Utrecht
1516
1555
1600
1635
1675
Dutch Merchant Dominance
economic
POPE SIXTUS IV
1471-1484
1540- Loyola founds
Society of Jesus
1517- Posting of 95 Theses
1700
1740-1748 War of
Austrian Succession
COUNTER-REFORMATION 1545-1648
Five Year
Plans
1936- Great
Purge
BREZHNEV
1964-1982
1986-
Destaliniz
Glasnost
ation
ReKRUSCHEV Stalinization 1991- End
of the SU
1953-1964
GORBACHEV
1985-1991
1880- William II
forces Bismarck to
resign
Revolutions of
1848
Metternich flees
1859- Italian war
to London
with Austria
1821- Greece
Revolution
1815- Quadruple
Alliance
1814- Congress
of Vienna
1803-1815
Napoleonic Wars
1886- Attempted
passing of Home
Rule (Ireland)
1884- Berlin
Conference
1861- Italy
declared a 1873- Three
kingdom Emperorsʼ League
1834- Zollverein
1915- Luisitania
1830- Belgian
1867- creation of
Revolution;
Dual Monarchy
Belgium
(Austria)
1815- Holy
Alliance; Russia, recognized as
Austria, Prussia neutral state 1854-1856
Crimean War
1800
1830
1968- Soviet
1945- Yalta
invasion of
Conference
Czechoslovakia
1945Potsdam
1962- Cuban
Missile Crisis
19461989- Fall
Churchill
of the
1938Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
Munich
Solidarity in
Agreement 1947- Truman
Doctrine/
Poland
Marshall Plan
Revolution
1923- French
occupied Ruhr
1914-1918 WWI
1872
1900
1949- NATO
1955- Warsaw
1955
1920
1919- Keynes
Economic
Consequences
of the Peace
1921- New Economic
Policy
1536- John Calvin Institute of the
Christian Religion
PROTESTANT REFORMATION 1517-1648
Jan Hus burned at the
stake
religious
1700- “Turnip” Townshend
Introduction of Syphillis
Crop rotation, enclosure
1665-1666 Great Plague of London
1580- Montaigne On
Cannibals
1532- Rabelais Pantegruel
1480- Pico de Gama
Oration on the Dignity
of Man
intellectual
1574- Brahe
1620- Baconian
Method (Novanum
Organum)
1750- Decline of Arranged
Marriages
1543- Copernicun hypothesis:
Heavenly Spheres
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 1543-1700
RENAISSANCE 14th-17th Century
1480- Boticelli Primavera
BAROQUE 1600-1730
1498- Da Vinci Last
Supper
1510- Rafael School of
Introduction of Early
Athens
Renaissance to Rome
1508- Michelangelo SIstine
(Sixtus IV)
Chapel
1501- Leonardo Mona Lisa
1516
protoindustri
alization
second industrial revolution 1820-1914
1842- Chadwick
Sanitary Idea
1890ʼs
emergence of
electric street
cars
Napoleon III
welfare
improvement
1796- Jenner Smallpox Inoculation
1848- Karl Marx
Communist
Manifesto
1830- Rocket
Train
URBANIZATION
1869- John Stuart
Mill The
Subjection of
Women
1922- James Joyce
Ulysses
1859- Darwin
Origin of Species
Henri de St.
Simon
ROMANTICISM
1600
1635
1675
1700
1715
1757
1800
1872- Monet Impression,
soleil levant
REALISM
1830
MODERN ART
DADAISM
1937- Picasso Guernica
1606-1669 Rembrandt
1555
1963- Betty Friedan The
Feminine Mystique
1925- Hitler Mein
Kamf
POST IMPRESSIONISM
1853- Charles DIckens
Hard Times
1818- Caspar David
Friedrich Wanderer Above
the Sea of Fog
AGE OF ANXIETY
Growth of middle class
1898- Marie
Curie Plutonium
1905- Einstein
Theory of
Relativity
Wordsworth
Coles
Scott
Johann Sebastian Bach
1966- NOW founded
Male suffrage
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 18th-19th Century
1751- Diderot Encyclopédie
1792- Mary
1762- Rousseau On
Wollstonecraft A
Education
1733- John Kay flying
Vindication of the
1764- Hargreaves
shuttle
Rights of Women
Spinning Jenny
1768- Arkwright
1739- Hume Inquiry into
Waterframe
Charles Fourier
Human Nature
1769- James Watt
1748- Montesquieu Spirit
Steam Engine
of Laws
1788- Siéyés What
is the Third Estate?
1690- John Locke
Essay Concerning
Human Understanding
1880- Germany
Social Welfare
Labor Act of
1851- Crystal Palace Great
1830
Exhibition
AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT 1650-1800
1651- Thomas Hobbes
1687- Newton
Leviathan
Principia
Decartes Dualism/
Conics
1632- Galileo Dialogue
on the Two Chief
Systems of the World
1633- Trial of Galileo
Potatoes replace grain
Decline of church
attendance
BRITISH POPULATION GROWTH
WITCH HUNTS 1480-1700
1516- Thomas More Utopia
1962- Greater emphasis
on child rearing
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION 17th-19th Century
Shakespeare
1513-Machiavelli The Prince
1511- Erasmus Praise of Folly
1508- Castiglione The Courtier
1450- Gutenberg invents
the printing press
1918- Post-war
restoration of faith
John Wesely
Jethro Tull
POPE JOHN
PAUL II
1978-2005
1929- Mussolini
Lateran
Agreement
PIETISM 1700-1850
1524- Peasant Revolts
1991
1986- Perestroika
(SU)
1956- Treaty of
Rome; creation of
Common Market
1973- Oil Crisis
1951- Treaty of Paris;
creation of ECSC
1871-1878
Kulturkamf
1763- Jesuits
kicked out of
France
s of 1989
1980Gdansk
agreement
1939-1945 WWII
Treaty of Versailles
1776- Adam
Smith Wealth of
Nations
1550ʼs-60ʼs Growth of Calvinism
1477
STALIN
1922-1953
1917- Russian
Revolution
NEW IMPERIALISM 1870-1914
1454- Gutenberg Bible
published
1433
1864- Scheleswig
and Holstein gained
1866- AustroPrussian war
1776- American
Independence
COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION 1488-1750
1545-1563 Council of Trent
1412-1418 Council of
Constance
1400
Russian
Revolution of
1905
1906- Duma
1870- FrancoPrussian War;
unification of
Germany
1862- Bismarck
chosen as prime
minister
1756–1763 Seven Yearsʼ
War
1757
1609- Amsterdam Exchange
Bank founded
1516 Concordat of Bologna
artistic
JOSEPH II
1765-1790
AGE OF EXPLORATION 1450-1600
app. 1500Nation-centered
economies
1417-1436
Brunelleschi creates
Florence Cathedral
ALEXANDER II
1855-1881
1861- Freeing
of Serfs
Creation of
Zemstvos
Colbert- France
Development of Caravel
social
French Republic
established 1871- Paris
Commune
1819- Carlsbad
Decrees
FREDERICK THE
GREAT
(PRUSSIA)
1740-1786
FREDERICK
WILLIAM I
(PRUSSIA)
1713-1740
1492- Columbus sets out
1521- Diet of Worms
1378-1417 The
Great Schism
1830- French
Revolution of
1830
CATHERINE THE
GREAT
1762-1796
Reform Bill of
Reform Bill of
1867; suffrage to 1884; suffrage to
middle class
all males
CHARLES X LOUIS NAPOLEON
III
1814-1830 PHILLIPE
-1848 1852- Second
-1870
1789-1799 French
Revolution
PETER THE
GREAT
1682-1725
WINSTON
CHURCHILL
(MULTIPLE
POSITIONS)
1910-1955
1525- German Peasantʼs Revoltj
1477
1440- Lorenzo Valla
exposes the Donation of
Constantine
NAPOLEON
1804-1814
RUSSIA/EASTERN EUROPE
1469- Lorenzo de Medici
takes power in Florence
1488- Diaz Rounds the
Cape of Good Hope
1433
LOUIS XVI
1774-1791
1685- Revocation of
the Edict of Nantes
1555- Peace of Augsburg
1453- Capture of
Constantinople
1454- Peace of Lodi
1824- Combination Acts
repealed
1846- Repeal of
Corn Laws
1815 Corn Laws
1688- Glorious
Revolution
1648-1653
Fronde
1598- 1589-1610
Edict of
Nantes
1584-1589War of the
Three Henrys
FRANCE
1400
CROMWELL
1653-1658
JAMES I
1603-1625
JAMES II WILLIAM &
MARY
1685-1688
1689- Bill of Rights-1702
IMPRESSIONISM
1872
CUBISM
1900
1920
SURREALISM
1955
1991