Kevin Bacon Dates Flashcards
Peace of Augsburg
1555
95 Theses
1517
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588
Elizabeth I of England died
1603
Beginning of the 30 Years’ War
1618
Cromwell came to power in England
1649
The Restoration in England
1660
Glorious Revolution in England
1688
Pragmatic Sanction in Austria
1713
Louis XIV of France died
1715
Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations (underlined)
1776
French Revolution began
1789
Final partition of Poland
1795
Napoleon came to power in France
1799
Napoleon became emperor
1804
Napoleon exiled, Congress of Vienna
1815
Revolutions of 1848, Marx/Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto (underlined)
1848
Unification of Italy, Tsar Alexander II of Russia freed the serfs
1861
Unification of Germany
1871
Beginning of WWI
1914
Russian Revolution
1917
End of WWI
1918
Beginning of WWII
1939
End of WWII
1945
Berlin Wall was built
1961
Fall of the Soviet bloc
1989
Fall of the Soviet Union
1991