timeline Flashcards
1
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The Black Death
A
1348-1351
2
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End of the hundred years war
A
1453
3
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Printing Press invented
A
1455
4
Q
Columbus goes to the new world
A
1492
5
Q
Protestant reformation begins
A
1517
6
Q
Peace of Augsberg
A
1555
7
Q
Defeat of the spanish armada
A
1588
8
Q
Edict of Nantes
A
1598
9
Q
Dutch east india company founded
A
1600
10
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Defenestration of prague
A
1618
11
Q
Reign of Louis XIV in france
A
1643-1715
12
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Treaty of westphalia
A
1648
13
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Hobbes “leviathan” is published
A
1651
14
Q
Newton publishes “principia mathematica”
A
1687
15
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Glorious revolution
A
1688
16
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English bill of rights
A
1688
17
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Locke publishes “two treatises on govt”
A
1689
18
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Treaty of Paris ends the 7 years war
A
1763
19
Q
Adam smith published “wealth of nations”
A
1776
20
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French revolution
A
1789-1799
21
Q
Napolean comes to power
A
1799
22
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Congress of vienna
A
1815
23
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Age of Metternich
A
1815
24
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Revolutions in france, belgium, and greece
A
1830
25
Liberal revolution
1848
26
Marx and Engel publish "the communist manifesto"
1848
27
Unification of Italy
1861
28
Emancipation of Serfs in Russia
1861
29
Unification of Germany
1871
30
Berlin conference (scramble for Africa)
1884
31
Freud publishes "interpretation of dreams"
1900
32
Russian revolution
1905
33
World War I
1914-1918
34
Russian revolution
1917
35
Treaty of versailles ends world war I
1918
36
Stock market crash, great depression ends
1929
37
World war II in europe
1939-1945
38
UN established
1945
39
NATO formed
1949
40
Sputnik launched
1957
41
Berlin wall
1961-1989
42
Second vatican council
1962
43
Prague Spring
1968
44
Breakup of soviet union
1991
45
Maastricht treaty created European Union
1992
46
Euro introduced (new european currency)
1999
47
Putin elected president of Russia
2000
