Ap Euro Term 2 Flashcards
Dates
***1689-1789
The Era of Enlightenment or Age of Reason
***1776
Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nation
1712-1778
Jean-Jacques Rousseau must be recognized as the link between the Enlightenment and the Romantic Era.
***1689
English Bill of Rights
***1701-1713
Wars of Spanish Succession pits France (and Spain) against the Grand Alliance who wish to fight French hegemony
***1713
Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession benefits the English, Prussians, and other members of the Grand Alliance opposing the “Sun King.”
Early 18th Century in England
Walpole becomes leader of government as de facto Prime Minister as England develops Party Politics
***1698-1725
Peter the Great Begins Westernization of Russia.
1700-1721
Great Northern War between Swedes and Russia ends with Russian expansion and emergence as the Great Baltic power
1713
The Pragmatic Sanction is signed
***1740
Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria come to their respective Hohenzollern and Habsburg thrones and begin German dualisms duel
1740-1748
War of Austrian Succession between Frederick’s Prussia and Maria Theresa’s Austria begins.
***18th century
Rococo Art and Mozart
1756
Diplomatic Revolution
***1756-63
The Seven Years War (known as the French and Indian War in North America)
***1780-1790
Reign of Josef II of Austria
***1789-1815
French Revolution and Napoleonic Era
***May 5, 1789
The Estates General are summoned by Louis XVI to respond to the economic crisis.
***June 20-27
The Tennis Court Oath.
***July 14, 1789
Storming of the Bastille
***August 4, 1789
Abolition of feudal privileges by National Constituent Assembly
August 26,1789
Publication of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
***1790
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
***1790
“Father of Modern Conservatism”, the Brit Edmund Burke
***1791-92
Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft publish treatises calling for women’s equality
1791
Royal family tries to escape in the “Flight to Varennes”
1791 October 21
Legislative Assembly convenes
1792
France declares war on Austria and Prussia
1792 September 21
Abolition of monarchy; France becomes a republic.
***1793-94
Radical Phase of the French Revolution
1795
Thermidorian Reaction quells the Reign of Terror as Robespierre is executed and the Directory takes control.
***1789-1791
Moderate stage of revolution dominated by those members of Third Estate originally summoned to the Estates General
***1793-94
Radical Revolution eventually led by the Jacobin Party leader Robespierre
1795-99
Conservative Directory fails to solve financial crisis or famine in France
***1799
Napoleon’s coup d’etat overthrows corrupt Directory
1804
Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of 1st French Empire
***1804
England dominates the High Seas for a Century
***1812
Napoleon makes the fateful decision to invade Russia
1814
Battle of Nations
***1789-1848
Romantic Era
***1815
The forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the Congress of Vienna
***1815-1914
the “Long Peace” in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of WWI
***1776-1830
Era of Democratic Revolutions Sweep Across the New World and Western “Liberal” Europe
***1815-1848
The Age of Metternich
***1819
Peterloo Massacre in Britain and the repressive Carslbad Decrees in the German
1820’s
Both the conflict over the Monroe Doctrine and the Greek Revolution
1830
Revolutions in Europe
***19th Century
Post-Napoleonic Europe—Industrial Revolution
***1815-1846
Corn Laws In Effect
***1832
Great Reform Bill in Britain
1830’s, 1840’s, 1850’s, 1860’s
Dickens was a voice of conscience for England during the Industrial Revolution in England
***1838-1848
Chartists in England call for universal suffrage
***1798–1848
Parson Malthus’s “Essay on Population” and David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages” rule the day as the “Manchester School” of economics dominates the “dismal science.
***1846
Repeal of Corn Laws in England
***1848
Chartists disband quietly considering it was the year of Revolutions
1867
The Reform Bill of 1867
1884
Reform Bill
1850’s and beyond
Scramble for Africa
***1848
Revolution sweeps across Europe and Failure of liberal nationalism
***1848
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their Communist Manifesto calling for “scientific socialism” and “dialectical materialism”
***1890’s
Fabian Socialist and Evolutionary Socialists Parties grow