Dates (1453- 1815) Flashcards
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Columbus lands in New World and Spain completes the Reconquista and ousts Jews and Moors
1492
Machiavelli wrote The Prince
1513
Martin Luther posts the 95 theses in Wittenberg Germany
1517
Charles V Habsburg agrees to the Peace of Augsburg
1555
Elizabeth I Tudor (politique) defeats Philip II of Spain’s (Habsburg) Spanish Armada
1588
Henry IV Bourbon (politique) issues the Edict of Nantes
1598
30 Years War begins which later ends with the Treaty of Westphalia; solidifies Elbe- Trieste Line
1618
Oliver Cromwell’s Roundheads in Parliament win the English Civil War and execute Charles I
1649
English Bill of Rights follows the Glorious Revolution (‘88). James II Stuart flees to Louis XIV’s Versailles
1689
Pragmatic Sanction in Austria and Peace of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession , as Peter I Romanov moves his capital to St. Petersburg and while Louis is dying
1713
Diplomatic Rev leads to 7 Years War; Agricultural Rev; population and illegitimacy explosion ~ begin
1756
Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, Declaration of Independence begins American Revolution
1776
French Revolution begins
1789
Final partition of Poland by Austria (Habsburg), Prussia (Hohenzollerns), Russia (Romanovs)
1795
Napoleon came to power in France
1799
Congress of Vienna exiles Napoleon, English Enclosure completes rural proletarization
1815
Gutenberg is making the printing press as Constantinople falls to the Turks; 100 years war ends
1453
