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1348

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Black Plague hits Europe, drives up the price of laborers, big disruption to social/political/economic activity

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1453

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Turks take Constantinople, end of 100 Years War

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1455

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Gutenburg Bible printed

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1469

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Ferdinand and Isabella begin Spain unification

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1485

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War of the Roses ends, Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII

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1492

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Columbus goes to the Americas looking for a shortcut to India (Ottomans control land trade w/ Istanbul

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1517

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Martin Luther - 95 Theses

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1519

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Charles V becomes HRE, Euro scared of Hapsburg hegemony, Hapsburg supremacy 1519-1656

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1521

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Diet of Worms

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10
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1545

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Turks siege Vienna (close call for Christian Europe)

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11
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1555

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Peace of Augsburg

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12
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1588

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Elizabeth I defeats Spanish Armada

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13
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1589

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Henry IV becomes first Bourbon king of France

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14
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1598

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Edict of Nantes

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1618-1648

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30 Years War, last of religious wars, leaves Germany in shambles, France is strongest nation, Richelieu (works for Louis XIII) shows workings of power balance

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16
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1648

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Peace of Westphalia

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1642-1648

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English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell takes over

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1643-1715

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Louis XIV (Sun King) rules with the help of Mazarin

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19
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1660

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Restoration of the Stuarts in England

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20
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1688

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Glorious Revolution

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21
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1701-1714

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War of Spanish Succession, ends in Peace of Utrecht which creates the Kingdom of Prussia, France severely weakened, England now strongest country

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22
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1720

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“bubbles” burst in England and France

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23
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1740

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Frederick II (The Great) begins reign in Prussia

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24
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1740-1748

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War of Austrian Succession, Fred seizes Silesia but Maria Theresa of Austria keeps her throne

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25
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1756-1763

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Seven Years War, ends in Peace of Paris

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26
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1772

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First Partition of Poland (“Poor Poland”)

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27
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1776

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American Revolution begins and Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations

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28
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1789

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French Revolution begins

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29
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1793

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Second Partition of Poland

30
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1795

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Third Partition of Poland

31
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1804

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Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor

32
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1806

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HRE finally ends, German Confederation

33
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1815

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Congress of Vienna restructures Europe after Napoleonic Wars

34
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1830

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July Revolution removes Bourbons from France and replaces them with Louis Philippe

35
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1832

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first English Reform Bill

36
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1846

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Corn Laws repealed in England

37
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1848

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Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto

38
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1852-1870

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lot of Euro revolutions, Metternich flees to England, Louis Philippe ousted and replaced by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (beginning of Second Republic)

39
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1853-1856

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Crimean War

40
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1859

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Darwin’s Origin of Species is published

41
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1861

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Alexander II frees the serfs in Russia, Italian unification (excluding papal states)

42
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1867

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formation of the Dual Monarchy (A-H), Seven Weeks War

43
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1870

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Franco-Prussian War, German unification, French Third Republic

44
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1878

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Berlin Congress settles problems between Russia and Ottoman Empire

45
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1885

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Berlin Conference, Euro powers carve up Africa

46
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1890

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Bismarck is fired by Kaiser William II

47
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1894

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Dreyfus Case in France

48
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1899-1902

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Boer War

49
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1904-1905

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Russo-Japanese War

50
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1905

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Bloody Sunday

51
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1912-1913

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Balkan Wars (two)

52
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1914-1918

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WWI, ended by Treaty of Versailles

53
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1917

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Russian Revolution, civil war continues until 1920, Balfour Decision

54
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1922

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Mussolini takes over Italy

55
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1929

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Great Depression begins

56
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1933

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Hitler comes to power

57
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1935

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Nuremberg Laws passed

58
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1936

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Spanish Civil War

59
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1939

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WWII begins

60
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1941

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7th December - Japan bombs Pearl Harbour

61
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1944

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6th June - D-Day

62
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1945

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FDR dies, WWII ends, atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

63
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1947

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Marshall Plan, India and Pakistan gain independence

64
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1948

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Israel created, Apartheid instituted in South Africa

65
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1949

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Communist Chinese win civil war, NATO organised

66
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1950-1953

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Korean War

67
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1950-1954

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defeat at Dien Bien Phu leads to French departure from Vietnam, enter USA

68
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1961

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Berlin Wall constructed

69
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1989

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end of communist regimes in Eastern Euro

70
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1991

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dissolution of the Soviet Union

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