Dates Flashcards
Date: Peace of Augsburg
1555
Date: War of the Spanish Succession, known in North America as Queen Anne’s war
1701-1714
Date: Triple Entente (Britain, France, Russia)
1907
Date: Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government” and “Essay Concerning Understanding” published
1690
Date: Life of Picasso
1881-1973
Date: Reign of Maria Theresa (Austria)
1740-1780
Date: Glorious Revolution in England
1688-1689
Date: Opium Wars
1839-1842
Date: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
1748
Date: INF Treaty reduces nuclear arms
1987
Date: Russian Revolutions; United States enters World War I
1917
Date: Kepler’s “Epitome of Copernican Astronomy”
1618-1621
Date: Reform Act (Britain)
1832
Date: Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles; founding of the League of Nations
1919
Date: Louis XVI rejects the Constitution of 1791
1792
Date: Berlin Conference establishes the Belgian Congo Free State
1884
Date: Revolutions in France, Belgium, Germans states, Spain, Portugal, Italian states; French invade Algeria
1830
Date: Battle of Saratoga
1777
Date: England breaks from Rome with Act in Restraint of Appeals and Act of Supremacy
1533-1534
Date: Great Depression
1929-1939
Date: Hobbe’s “Leviathan” published
1652
Date: Galileo’s “Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World” published
1632
Date: Pugachev’s failed Peasant Rebellion leads to renewal of serfdom in Russia
1773-1774
Date: The British Civil Wars
1637-1660
Date: Council of Trent
1543-1563
Date: Bacon’s “The Advancement of Learning” published
1605
Date: War of the Austrian Succession
1740-1748
Date: Decembrist Revolt fails in Russia
1825
Date: Revolutions in France, German States, Italian states, Austria-Hungary; Marx and Engels’s “Communist Manifesto” published
1848
Date: Dano-Prussian War
1863-1864
Date: Pillnitz Declaration supports the French king against the French Revolution
1791
Date: Czechoslovakia’s “Prague Spring” crushed by the Soviets
1968
Date: Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
1927
Date: Life of Rembrandt
1606-1669
Date: Russia imposes Treaty of San Stefano on Ottoman Empire
1878
Date: U.S. Independence
1776
Date: German Protestant princes form Schmalkaldic League
1530-1531
Date: NATO founded; first Soviet atomic blast
1949
Date: Peace of Passau
1552
Date: Treaty of Amiens
1801
Date: Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme
1916
Date: Battle of Waterloo; Congress of Vienna
1815
Date: French Revolution begins
1789
Date: Seven Years’ War; concludes with Treaty of Paris
1756-1763
Date: Crystal Palace Exhibition, the first world’s fair
1851
Date: Russia defeated in Crimean War
1853-1856
Date: Henry IV founds the Bourbon dynasty in France
1589
Date: The Peasants’ War
1524
Date: Dreyfus Affair (France)
1894-1906
Date: Voltaire’s “Letters on England” published
1733
Date: Life of Shakespeare
1564-1616
Date: War of the Polish Succession
1733-1735
Date: Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, England
1819
Date: Great Famine (Ireland)
1845-1847
Date: Troppau Protocol seeks to suppress revolution in Naples
1820
Date: Reign of Henry VIII (England)
1509-1547
Date: Machiavelli’s “The Prince” published
1532
Date: Treaty of Rapallo between Germany and Communist Russia
1922
Date: Sputnik launched
1957
Date: Reign of Elizabeth I (England)
1558-1603
Date: Battle of Valmy
1792
Date: Lausanne Conference absolves German debts
1932
Date: H.M.S. Dreadnought built
1906
Date: Diderot’s “Encyclopedia” published
1751-1780
Date: Death of Lenin; power struggle in Russia between Stalin and Trotsky
1924
Date: Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” published
1687
Date: Kepler’s “Rudolphine Tables” published
1625
Date: Battles of Minden, Fort Duquesne, Quebec
1759
Date: Edict of Worms declares Martin Luther a heretic and outlaw
1521
Date: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk removes Russia from World War I
1918
Date: Darwin’s “Origin of Species” published
1859
Date: Solidarity trade union established in Poland
1985
Date: Revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Italy
1820-1823
Date: Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell
1653-1658
