Dates Flashcards
1 voyage of Columbus
1492
Luther’s 95 theses
1517
Act of Supremacy created the Church of England under Henry VIII
1534
Edict of Nantes (end of French wars of religion)
1598
Exploration
1500-1800
Golden Age of Dutch republic
1600s (17th c)
English civil war and glorious rev
1642-1689
Peace of Westphalia (end of 30 years’ war)
1648
Scientific rev
16th and 17th c
Beginning of pop growth
1750
Enlightenment
18th c
British industrial rev
18th c
Constitution of France (French rev)
1791
Defeat of Napoleon/congress of Vienna
1815
Liberal revs
1848
Crimean War
1853
Unification of Italy
1861 (completed 1870)
Unification of Germany
1871
2nd industrial rev
1870-1914
WW1
1914-1918
Bolshevik rev
1917
WW2
1939-1945
Cold War
1945-1991
Maastricht Treaty - creation of EU
1994
Berlin Wall
1989
Renaissance
1350