Ap Euro Unit 1 and 2

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  • Period: 1282 to

    Hapsburg Dynasty

  • 1347

    Bubonic Plague begins

  • Period: 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • 1431

    Joan of Arc burnend

  • 1439

    Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press

  • 1448

    Prince Henry the Navigator builds school for sailors.

  • Period: 1450 to 1550

    Italian Renaissance

  • Period: 1450 to

    Commercial Revolution

  • Period: 1450 to

    Northern Renaissance

  • 1453

    Turkish Empire cuts off the land route for spices from Asia to Europe. Search for sea route begins

  • 1455

    The Wars of the Roses

  • 1478

    The Spainish Inquistion begins

  • 1487

    Botticelli paints The Birth of Venus.

  • Period: 1487 to

    Tuuotrs dynasty

  • 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias

    Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope.
  • 1492

    Columbus discovers America.

  • 1493

    The Line of Demarcation

    Pope Alexander VI divided the non-European territory into two parts, one for Spain and the other for Portugal.
  • 1494

    The Medici are Ousted from Florence

  • 1496

    Habsburg marital alliances

    Philip, heir to Austria, marries Joanna, a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, in the second of the great Habsburg marital alliances
  • 1497

    Amerigo Vespucci

    After exploring the Northern coast of South America, he claimed it was not Asia but a new continent!
  • 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.

  • Period: 1514 to

    Triangular Trade

  • 1517

    Protestant Reformation

  • 1520

    High Point of the Northern Renaissance

  • 1524

    Hernán Cortés

    Defeats the Aztecs.
  • Period: 1525 to

    Columbian Exchange

  • Period: 1526 to

    Slave Trade

  • May 6, 1527

    The Sack of Rome

  • 1533

    Henry the 8th of England excommunicated

  • 1556

    Charles V abdicates

  • 1558

    Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 1

  • 1571

    The Reformation Movement Begins

  • East India Company

  • Decline of the Northern Renaissance

  • fricans in English America are brought to the Jamestown Colony

  • The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

  • The Treaty of Hubertusburg

    The Treaty of Hubertusburg, between Prussia and Austria, increases the power of Prussia among the many separate states of Germany

  • The peak of the transatlantic slave trade is reached

  • France declares war on the Austrian emperor

    event that plunges Europe into more than 20 years of conflict

  • Great Britain abolishes the slave trade with its colonies

  • The U.S. Congress bans the importation of slaves into the country

  • Spain signs a treaty with Britain

  • Potato Famine

  • Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, is also crowned king of Hungary

    Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, is also crowned king of Hungary – to become ruler of the 'dual monarchy' of Austria-Hungary