timeline Flashcards
The Black Death
1348-1351
End of the hundred years war
1453
Printing Press invented
1455
Columbus goes to the new world
1492
Protestant reformation begins
1517
Peace of Augsberg
1555
Defeat of the spanish armada
1588
Edict of Nantes
1598
Dutch east india company founded
1600
Defenestration of prague
1618
Reign of Louis XIV in france
1643-1715
Treaty of westphalia
1648
Hobbes “leviathan” is published
1651
Newton publishes “principia mathematica”
1687
Glorious revolution
1688
English bill of rights
1688
Locke publishes “two treatises on govt”
1689
Treaty of Paris ends the 7 years war
1763
Adam smith published “wealth of nations”
1776
French revolution
1789-1799
Napolean comes to power
1799
Congress of vienna
1815
Age of Metternich
1815
Revolutions in france, belgium, and greece
1830
Liberal revolution
1848
Marx and Engel publish “the communist manifesto”
1848
Unification of Italy
1861
Emancipation of Serfs in Russia
1861
Unification of Germany
1871
Berlin conference (scramble for Africa)
1884
Freud publishes “interpretation of dreams”
1900
Russian revolution
1905
World War I
1914-1918
Russian revolution
1917
Treaty of versailles ends world war I
1918
Stock market crash, great depression ends
1929
World war II in europe
1939-1945
UN established
1945
NATO formed
1949
Sputnik launched
1957
Berlin wall
1961-1989
Second vatican council
1962
Prague Spring
1968
Breakup of soviet union
1991
Maastricht treaty created European Union
1992
Euro introduced (new european currency)
1999
Putin elected president of Russia
2000