Dates Flashcards
1
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Date: Peace of Augsburg
A
1555
2
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Date: War of the Spanish Succession, known in North America as Queen Anne’s war
A
1701-1714
3
Q
Date: Triple Entente (Britain, France, Russia)
A
1907
4
Q
Date: Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government” and “Essay Concerning Understanding” published
A
1690
5
Q
Date: Life of Picasso
A
1881-1973
6
Q
Date: Reign of Maria Theresa (Austria)
A
1740-1780
7
Q
Date: Glorious Revolution in England
A
1688-1689
8
Q
Date: Opium Wars
A
1839-1842
9
Q
Date: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
A
1748
10
Q
Date: INF Treaty reduces nuclear arms
A
1987
11
Q
Date: Russian Revolutions; United States enters World War I
A
1917
12
Q
Date: Kepler’s “Epitome of Copernican Astronomy”
A
1618-1621
13
Q
Date: Reform Act (Britain)
A
1832
14
Q
Date: Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles; founding of the League of Nations
A
1919
15
Q
Date: Louis XVI rejects the Constitution of 1791
A
1792
16
Q
Date: Berlin Conference establishes the Belgian Congo Free State
A
1884
17
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Date: Revolutions in France, Belgium, Germans states, Spain, Portugal, Italian states; French invade Algeria
A
1830
18
Q
Date: Battle of Saratoga
A
1777
19
Q
Date: England breaks from Rome with Act in Restraint of Appeals and Act of Supremacy
A
1533-1534
20
Q
Date: Great Depression
A
1929-1939
21
Q
Date: Hobbe’s “Leviathan” published
A
1652
22
Q
Date: Galileo’s “Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World” published
A
1632
23
Q
Date: Pugachev’s failed Peasant Rebellion leads to renewal of serfdom in Russia
A
1773-1774
24
Q
Date: The British Civil Wars
A
1637-1660
25
Date: Council of Trent
1543-1563
26
Date: Bacon's "The Advancement of Learning" published
1605
27
Date: War of the Austrian Succession
1740-1748
28
Date: Decembrist Revolt fails in Russia
1825
29
Date: Revolutions in France, German States, Italian states, Austria-Hungary; Marx and Engels's "Communist Manifesto" published
1848
30
Date: Dano-Prussian War
1863-1864
31
Date: Pillnitz Declaration supports the French king against the French Revolution
1791
32
Date: Czechoslovakia's "Prague Spring" crushed by the Soviets
1968
33
Date: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
1927
34
Date: Life of Rembrandt
1606-1669
35
Date: Russia imposes Treaty of San Stefano on Ottoman Empire
1878
36
Date: U.S. Independence
1776
37
Date: German Protestant princes form Schmalkaldic League
1530-1531
38
Date: NATO founded; first Soviet atomic blast
1949
39
Date: Peace of Passau
1552
40
Date: Treaty of Amiens
1801
41
Date: Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme
1916
42
Date: Battle of Waterloo; Congress of Vienna
1815
43
Date: French Revolution begins
1789
44
Date: Seven Years' War; concludes with Treaty of Paris
1756-1763
45
Date: Crystal Palace Exhibition, the first world's fair
1851
46
Date: Russia defeated in Crimean War
1853-1856
47
Date: Henry IV founds the Bourbon dynasty in France
1589
48
Date: The Peasants' War
1524
49
Date: Dreyfus Affair (France)
1894-1906
50
Date: Voltaire's "Letters on England" published
1733
51
Date: Life of Shakespeare
1564-1616
52
Date: War of the Polish Succession
1733-1735
53
Date: Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, England
1819
54
Date: Great Famine (Ireland)
1845-1847
55
Date: Troppau Protocol seeks to suppress revolution in Naples
1820
56
Date: Reign of Henry VIII (England)
1509-1547
57
Date: Machiavelli's "The Prince" published
1532
58
Date: Treaty of Rapallo between Germany and Communist Russia
1922
59
Date: Sputnik launched
1957
60
Date: Reign of Elizabeth I (England)
1558-1603
61
Date: Battle of Valmy
1792
62
Date: Lausanne Conference absolves German debts
1932
63
Date: H.M.S. Dreadnought built
1906
64
Date: Diderot's "Encyclopedia" published
1751-1780
65
Date: Death of Lenin; power struggle in Russia between Stalin and Trotsky
1924
66
Date: Newton's "Principia Mathematica" published
1687
67
Date: Kepler's "Rudolphine Tables" published
1625
68
Date: Battles of Minden, Fort Duquesne, Quebec
1759
69
Date: Edict of Worms declares Martin Luther a heretic and outlaw
1521
70
Date: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk removes Russia from World War I
1918
71
Date: Darwin's "Origin of Species" published
1859
72
Date: Solidarity trade union established in Poland
1985
73
Date: Revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Italy
1820-1823
74
Date: Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell
1653-1658
75
Date: Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in England
1660
76
Date: Treaty of Riga sets Polish border with Communist Russia
1921
77
Date: Marshall Plan enacted
1947
78
Date: Nine Years' War (War of the Grand Alliance), known in North America as King William's war
1688-1697
79
Date: Luther launches the Reformation
1517
80
Date: Invasion of Italy; Battle of Kursk
1943
81
Date: Voltaire's "Candide" published
1759
82
Date: Russia defeated in Russo-Japanese War
1904-1905
83
Date: Jamestown founded
1607
84
Date: D-Day
1944
85
Date: Reign of Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)
1519-1556
86
Date: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
1685
87
Date: Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" premiers
1876
88
Date: German invasion of the Soviet Union; Japan and the United States enter the war
1941
89
Date: War of Jenkins's Ear
1739-1742
90
Date: Greek War of Independence (concludes with Treaty of Adrianople)
1821-1829
91
Date: Nietzshe's major publications
1872-1901
92
Date: France signs Treaties of Tilsit with Prussia and Russia
1807
93
Date: Protestants flee Paris after the "Affair of the Placards"
1534
94
Date: British Parliament passes Quebec Act
1774
95
Date: Surrender of Germany; U.S. drops atomic bombs; surrender of Japan
1945
96
Date: Great Northern War challenges Sweden
1700-1721
97
Date: Reign of Louis XIV
1643-1715
98
Date: Sadler commission investigates child labor (Britain)
1832
99
Date: Reign of Phillip II (Spain)
1556-1598
100
Date: Thirty Years' War
1618-1648
101
Date: Spanish Inquisition begins
1478
102
Date: Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" published
1930
103
Date: Life of Beethoven
1770-1827
104
Date: Austrians defeat Ottomans at Battle of Zenta
1683
105
Date: World War II
1939-1945
106
Date: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes premier of the Soviet Union
1985
107
Date: Berlin wall erected
1961
108
Date: Columbus encounters the Americas
1492
109
Date: The Spanish Armada sails, fails
1588
110
Date: Founding of the European Union
1994
111
Date: Austro-Prussian War
1866
112
Date: Three Emperors' League (Germany, Austria, Russia)
1872
113
Date: Bacon's "Novum Organum" published
1620
114
Date: Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile
1469
115
Date: Marx's "Das Kapital" published
1883
116
Date: The Spanish Civil War
1936-1939
117
Date: Reign of Frederick the Great (Prussia)
1740-1786
118
Date: Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power in France
1799
119
Date: James I founds the Stuart dynasty in England and Ireland
1603
120
Date: Edict of Nantes grants toleration to Huguenots (French Protestants)
1598
121
Date: Dutch Revolt against Spain
1567-1608
122
Date: Treaty of Ryswick ends Nine Years' War
1697
123
Date: T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" published
1923
124
Date: Factory Act reduces working hours (Britain)
1833
125
Date: Holy Alliance
1815
126
Date: New Balkan Crisis
1994-1999
127
Date: Indian Mutiny
1857-1858
128
Date: Treaty of Pressburg gives Bohemia and Hungary to the Habsburgs
1491
129
Date: Smith's "Wealth of Nations" published
1776
130
Date: Battles of Trafalgar, Austerlitz
1805
131
Date: Sudentenland Crisis
1938
132
Date: Battle of Yorktown
1781
133
Date: Assassination of Alexander II (Russia)
1881
134
Date: "Essay on the Principle of Population" by Thomas Malthus
1798
135
Date: Treaty of Rome establishes the European Economic Community
1957
136
Date: French Revolutionary War
1792-1801
137
Date: Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" published
1792
138
Date: The Diet of Speyer relaxes pressure on Lutherans; reversed three years later
1526
139
Date: William III defeats James II at Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
1690
140
Date: Reign of Terror
1793-1794
141
Date: Berlin airlift
1948
142
Date: Germany signs Locarno Pact against changing boundaries by force
1925
143
Date: Cold War
1945-1989
144
Date: Hitler enters the Rhineland
1936
145
Date: Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, Italy)
1892
146
Date: Gallipoli campaign; sinking of the Lusitania
1915
147
Date: Battles of Midway, El Alamein, Stalingrad
1942
148
Date: Turkish navy defeated at Battle of Lepanto
1571
149
Date: Battle of Culloden
1746
150
Date: World War I
1914-1918
151
Date: German hyperinflation
1923
152
Date: Hungarian revolt crushed by the Soviets
1956
153
Date: Entente Cordiale (Britain, France)
1904
154
Date: Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal to divide the New World
1494
155
Date: Peace of Utrecht (Treaty of Rastatt, Treatty of Baden) ends the War of the Spanish Succession
1713-1714
156
Date: Founding of the United Nations
1945
157
Date: Battle of Blenheim
1704
158
Date: Unification of Italy; emancipation of Russian serfs
1861
159
Date: Warsaw Pact founded
1955
160
Date: Franco-Russian Alliance
1894
161
Date: Henry VII found the Tudor dynasty in England
1485
162
Date: Napoleonic Wars
1803-1815
163
Date: Break-up of Warsaw Pact
1989
164
Date: Fall of France; Battle of Britain
1940
165
Date: Copernicus's "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies" published
1543
166
Date: Opening of the Suez Canal
1869
167
Date: English Wars of the Roses
1455-1485
168
Date: Napoleon's Russian campaign fails
1812
169
Date: Boston Tea Party
1773
170
Date: American Revolutionary War
1775-1783
171
Date: Carlsbad Decrees stifle freedom at German universities
1819
172
Date: War of the Schmalkaldic League
1546-1552
173
Date: Vasco de Gama returns from the Far East
1498
174
Date: O'Neill Rebellion in Ireland
1594-1603
175
Date: Franco-Prussian War; unification of Germany
1870-1871
176
Date: Wars of Religion in France
1562-1598
177
Date: Rousseau's "Social Contract" and "Emile" published
1762
178
Date: The Fronde
1649-1652
179
Date: Break-up of Soviet Union
1990-1991
180
Date: Treaty of Paris (Ending American Revolution)
1783
181
Date: Trial and execution of Charles I (England)
1649
182
Date: Ferdinand and Isabel jointly assume the throne of united Spain
1479
183
Date: First Russian Revolution; Einstein's three major papers published
1905
184
Date: Peace of Westphalia
1648
185
Date: Rape of Belgium; Battle of the Marne
1914
