Timeline Dates Flashcards
Italian Renaissance
1397 - Giovanni de Medici founded first Medici Bank
Printing
1450 - Gutenberg Press
Northern Renaissance
1516 - Thomas More’s “Utopia”
Protestant Reformation
1517 - Martin Luther posted “95 Theses”
Age of Exploration
1492 - Columbus came to the New World
Catholic Counter-Reformation
1534 - Ignatius started the Jesuits order
Age of Absolutism
1682 - Louis XIV moved royal Court to Versailles
Constitutionalism/Limited Monarchies
1689 - English Bill of rights (influenced by John Locke)
Scientific Revolution
1543 - Copernicus published heliocentric ideas (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
Enlightenment
1751 - Diderot created Encyclopedia
Dutch Golden Age
1602 - Dutch East India Company established
Economic Change
1661 - Jean Baptiste Colbert became First Minister
Enlightened Deposits
1740 - Fredrick II became king of Prussia
French Revolution
1793 - Marat was stabbed by Corday
Napoleon/Congress of Vienna
1804 - Napoleon became Emperor of France
First Industrial Revolution
1781 - James Watt improved steam engine
Romanticism/Realism
1789 - Tennis Court Oath
Second Industrial Revolution
1876 - Graham Bell’s telephone
Imperialism
1884 - Berlin Conference
Modern Art
1874 - Claude Monet’s “Impression: Sunrise”
Modernism/Uncertainty Grows
1905 - Einstein’s “Theory of Relativity”
World War I
1914 - 1918 (world war I)
Rise of Dictators/Fascism/Totalitarianism
1919 - Mussolini organized first Fascist party
World War II
1939 - 1945 (World War II)
Cold War
1947 - 1991 (cold war)
Decolonization
1947 - Indian Independence Act
Thatcherism/Regan
1979 - Margaret Thatcher became prime minister
Terrorism/UN Nations/9/11
2001 - 9/11