Dates Flashcards
Renaissance
1450
Exploration
1492
95 Theses/Reformation
1517
Peace of Augsburg
1555
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588
Edict of Nantes
1598
Peace of Westphalia
1648
Glorious Revolution
1688
Height of Enlightenment
1750
American Revolution/Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”
1776
French Revolution
1789
Defeat of Napoleon/Congress of Vienna
1815
Revolutions – the most widespread in European History
1848
Franco-Prussian War/German Unification
1870
End of World War I/Versailles Treaty
1918
The Great Depression
1929
End of World War II
1945
Political Protest in Communist States, France
1968
Fall of Berlin Wall
1989
Transition to “euro”
2000
Period 1 (Units 1-2)
1450-1648
Exploration, Renaissance, Age of Reformation
Period 2 (Units 3-5)
1649-1815
Absolutism & Constitutional , Scientific, Philosophical, & Political Development , Conflicts, Crisis & Reaction in Late 18th Century
Period 3 (Units 6-7)
1815-1914
Industrialization & Its Effects, Early 19th Century Conflict, Crisis & Reaction
Period 4 (Units 8-9)
1914 to the present
20th Century Global Conflicts, Cold War & Contemporary Europe