Dates quiz Flashcards
(21 cards)
1
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1453
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- Gutenberg is making the printing press
- Constantinople falls to the Turks
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1492
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- Columbus lands in new world
- Spain completes Reconquista of Jews and Moors
3
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1513
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Machiavelli wrote The Prince
4
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1517
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Martin Luther posts the 95 theses in Wittenberg Germany
5
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1534
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- King Henry VIII passes Acts of Supremacy
- Jesuits created
6
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1545
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- Council of Trent begins
- John Calvin preaches in Geneva
7
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1555
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Charles V Habsburg agrees to the Peace of Augsburg
8
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1588
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Elizabeth I defeats Philip II of Spain’s Spanish Armada
9
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1598
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- Henry IV Bourbon issues Edict of Nantes
- Louis XIV revokes in 1685
10
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1627
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- Cardinal Richelieu sieges La Rochelle
- Dutch Golden Age
- Baroque art flourishes
11
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1633
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- Inquisition puts Galileo on trial in Rome
- Scientific Method with Descartes math and Bacons empiricism
12
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1648
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- Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 years war and solidifies Elbe-Trieste Line (military revolution)
- Fronde revolts threaten young Louis XIV
13
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1651
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- Oliver Cromwell’s Roundheads in parliament win the English Civil War
- Mercantilist English Navigation Acts
- Hobbes Leviathan
14
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1689
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- English Bill of Rights follows the Glorious Revolution
- John Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government
15
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1713
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- Pragmatic Sanction in Austria
- peace of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession
- Peter I Romanov moves capital to St. Petersburg as Louis XIV is dying
- Age of Enlightenment begins
16
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1756
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- Diplomatic Revolution leads to 7 years war
- Agricultural revolution
- population and illegitimacy explosion
17
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1776
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- Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations
- Declaration of Independence begins American Revolution
- Watt steam engine
18
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1789
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-French Revolution begins
19
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1795
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Final partition of Poland by Enl. Despots (Austrian Habsburg, Prussian Hohenzollerns, Russian Romanovs)
20
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1799
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Napoleon comes to power in France
21
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1815
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- Congress of Vienna exiles Napoleon
- English Enclosure completes rural proletarization
- Dual Rev merge
- Age of Metternich begins the concert of Europe
