Euro Timelines

  • Gutenberg invents the printing press
    1450

    Gutenberg invents the printing press

    Like a typewriter
    Raised literacy rates, especially among poor
    Both info and false info is spread quicker
    Books are cheaper and more accessible.
  • Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire (Sultan Mehmed II)
    1453

    Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire (Sultan Mehmed II)

    Fall of Constantinople: capture of the Byzantine's capital
    End of the Byzantine Empire
  • Period: 1485 to

    Reign of the Tudor Dynasty

    Royal house that ruled England
    Henry VII to Elizabeth I
    Starting with War of the Roses to Elizabeth's death without an heir
  • Columbus Voyage to the Americas
    1492

    Columbus Voyage to the Americas

    God, Gold, Glory
    Trying to find India, landed in America
    Beneficial for Europe, devastating for Natives
  • Completion of the Reconquista (fall of Granada)
    1492

    Completion of the Reconquista (fall of Granada)

    Granada: last standing Muslim stronghold in the Iberian Peninsula
    Fell to Spain (the United Christian Kingdoms of Castile- Ferdinand, and Aragon- Isabella)
    Christian Dominance
  • Alhambra Decree
    Mar 31, 1492

    Alhambra Decree

    King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
    All Jews had until the end of July to leave the country or convert to Catholicism
  • Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel
    1512

    Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel

    Completion
    In the Vatican
    Humanism
  • Launch of Protestant Reformation
    1517

    Launch of Protestant Reformation

    They wanted a reform in the Roman Catholic Church.
    This included equal distributions of power
    Resulted in a lot of wars
    Major religious and political changes
  • Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses
    1517

    Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses

    Martin Luther: Catholic who physically posted his 95 Thesus on a church door, critiquing the Roman Catholic Church
    Ex: critiques "indulgences", which is church leaders accepting payment to pay for sins
    Luther was excommunicated from the Church
    This led to the Protestant Reformation
  • Luther's Attendance at the Diet of Worms
    1521

    Luther's Attendance at the Diet of Worms

    Church gathered Luther to an audience and asked him
    -Was he the author of the 25 works before them?
    -Would he now recant the false teachings in them?
    Luther gave a speech and said he wouldn't recant his works
  • Machiavelli's The Prince Published
    1532

    Machiavelli's The Prince Published

    How to stay in power
    Your people should fear you, not love you
    Have to be ruthless and immoral sometimes
  • Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII
    1532

    Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII

    Declared King Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church of England
    Break from Papal authority
    Anglican Church (branch of Protestant)
  • Copernicus Publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    1543

    Copernicus Publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

    Copernicus: Polish astronomer
    New model of the cosmos that placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the universe
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent (Catholic Reformation)

    In response to the Protestant Reformation
    Meeting
  • Peace of Augsburg
    1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    Treaty that ended the religious war between Catholics and Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire
    Allowed each Prince to decide if there territory is Catholic or Lutheran
    Recognizes "Cuius regio, eius religio" (Whose realm, his religion)
  • St. Bartholomew's Massacre
    1572

    St. Bartholomew's Massacre

    Targeted series of killing orchestrated by the French monarchy to eliminate Huguenot leaders to stabilize Catholicism
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    War of the Three Henrys

    King Henry III of France: supported by royalists and politiques
    King Henry of Navarre: heir to French throne leader of the Huguenots, supported by Elizabeth I of England and the Protestant princes of Germany
    Henry of Lorraine: Duke of Guise, leader of the Catholic League, supported by Philip II of Spain
  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

    Defeat of the Spanish Armada

    Spanish Armada: fleet of ships sent by Spain to invade England
    Part of it was that he wanted to restore the Roman Catholic faith in England.
    Philip II of Spain
    VS
    Elizabeth I of England
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    Granted religious tolerance and equality to the Huguenots (French Protestants) and ended the French Wars of Religion
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    Thirty Years' War

    Bohemian
    Danish
    Swedish
    French
    4 Phases (BDSF)
  • Defenestration of Prague

    Defenestration of Prague

    Political/religious figures thrown out of window
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    English Civil War

    Royalists- divine right of the Monarch (Supporters of Charles I)
    .VS.
    Parliamentarians- anti divine right (led by Oliver Cromwell)
  • Peace of Westphalia

    Peace of Westphalia

    Treaties to end 30 Years War
    Brought temporary peace
  • Execution of Charles I

    Execution of Charles I

    For being an unjust leader
    Establishment of the Commonwealth (reformation under Oliver Cromwell
    Cromwell Burger: James I, etc.
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    Reign of Louis XIV at Versailles (without regent)

  • Period: to

    Reign of Louis XIV at Versailles (without regent)

    Limited nobility power
    "I am the state"
    Spends too much money
  • Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution

    James II (Catholic) replaced by William III and Mary II
    Protestant monarchs invited by Parliament
    Shift toward Constitutional monarch
  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights

    Limits the power of the monarchy, establishes Constitutional Monarchy (king queen, but limited by constitution)
  • Locke's "Two Treatises on Government" published

    Locke's "Two Treatises on Government" published

    John Locke- enlightened
    Political philosophy arguing for natural rights
  • Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession

    Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession

    Treaty of Utrecht: Agreement between Britain and France
    Spanish Succession: war over European balance of power (sparked by death of childless Charles Habsburg)
  • War of Austrian Succession

    War of Austrian Succession

    Conflict caused by Emperor Charles's death (who will take the Austrian Habsburg throne?)
    Also economic and territorial
    8 years
    Maria Theresa
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    Reign of Maria Theresa of Austria

    Maria Theresa: Habsburg, married Louis XIV, died at Versailles from illness
  • Period: to

    Diderot's Encyclopedia Published

    Denis Diderot- Enlightened
    Aided by Catherine the Great
  • Period: to

    Seven Years' War

    Fight over North American Indian land claims
    Frederick the Great: Prussia
    Louis XV: France
    Maria Theresa
    George III: Britain
    Ends with Treaty of Paris (Britain gets a lot of land)
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    Early Industrial Revolution in Great Britain

    Machines such as steam-powered
    Designs to reduce labor
    Factories like textile mills
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    Reign of Catherine the Great

    Russian empress
    Modernized Russia during Enlightenment
    Expand territory, promote art education
    Punished serfs after they rebelled
  • Period: to

    Pugachev's Rebellion

    Rallied peasants, promised serfs land freedom
    Various social and ethnic groups
    Wanted social change
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    Inspired by Enlightenment ideals
    American independence from Britain Europe
    Adam Smith (student professor) publishes
    "On the Wealth of the Nation" (what makes a nation wealthy?)
  • French Revolution begins

    French Revolution begins

    Triggered under Louis XVI Marie Antoinette Causes: Estate system, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, inspo from American Revolution Declaration of the Rights of Man Citizen (rights such as freedom, ownership, security, resistance)
    Storming of the Bastille (Parisian revolutionaries storm royal fortress/prison) National Assembly: formed by the Third Estate to dismantle absolutism (government draft)
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    Haitian Revolution & Independence

    Enslaved people
    Against French colonial rule
    Defeated French, British, Spanish
  • Reign of Terror led by Robespierre & Committee of Public Safety

    Reign of Terror led by Robespierre & Committee of Public Safety

    30,000 people executed for supposedly opposing the French Revolution Robespierre: member of the 3rd estate, advocate Committee of Public Safety: defend new republic against foreign invasion and internal rebellion Marie Antoinette Louis XVI executed
  • Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power (Coup of 18 Brumaire)

    Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power (Coup of 18 Brumaire)

    Ends French Revolution, begins:
    Consulate: top-level government
    Established himself as leader of government while not declaring himself head of state
  • Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French

    Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French

    Not Emperor of France, but of the French people
    In front of the Pop
  • End of the Holy Roman Empire

    End of the Holy Roman Empire

    Napoleon pressured Emperor Francis II of HRE to step down
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    Age of Metternich

    Austria's political dominance
    Restore peace, resolve arguments
    Anti-liberal
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo: end of Napoleonic wars + his reign
    Napoleon defeated by Duke of Wellington (political figure military general)
  • Congress of Vienna

    Congress of Vienna

    Restore stability monarchies after Napoleon's defeat
    Led by:
    Prince Metternich: foreign Minister of Austria, against liberal nationalist movement
    Restores conservative order
    Split up land
  • Carlsbad Decrees issued in Austria

    Carlsbad Decrees issued in Austria

    Censor publications
    Suppress political opinions
    Bannings persecutions
    Adopted by German Confederation
  • Peterloo Massacre

    Peterloo Massacre

    60,000 peaceful demonstrators gathered to hear pro-Democracy speakers
    Want justice and the right to vote, anti-poverty
    Army trampled them
    18 deaths, 700 injuries
  • Napoleon Dies

    Napoleon Dies

    After defeat, sent to exile
    Died 6 years later
  • Decembrist Revolt in Russia

    Decembrist Revolt in Russia

    Russia nobility trying to overthrow Tsar Nicholas I
    Goal: fore him to read Manifesto that said that he must step down from the throne and that they were formally overthrowing the gov
    Wanted: civil rights, Constitution,
  • July Revolution in France

    July Revolution in France

    France
    Charles X overthrown, Louis-Phillipe becomes "Citizen King"
  • Revolutions of 1830

    Revolutions of 1830

    France Belgium
    Want liberty, more rights
  • Great Reform Act of 1832

    Great Reform Act of 1832

    Gave vote to middle class men (not working men)
    British Parliament
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    Crimean War

    Russia vs Ottoman Empire, Britain, and France
    First modern war with war correspondents and photography
  • Revolutions of 1848 across Europe

    Revolutions of 1848 across Europe

    -Inspired by liberal, nationalist, and socialist ideas
    -Most revolutions fail; conservative regimes restored
    -Metternich removed on March 31st
    -Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish Communist Manifesto
  • Franco-Austrian War

    Franco-Austrian War

    2nd Italian War of Independence
    Italian Unification, Nationalism, get rid of control
    French Sardinia against Austria
    Austrians defeated
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    Second Industrial Revolution

    Iron, Steel, Railroads, Bessemer Process
    Lots of labor, inspo from American inventions
  • Alexander II (Russia) Emancipates the Serfs

    Alexander II (Russia) Emancipates the Serfs

    Alexander II: Modernization, reforms to judicial and military systems
  • Italian Unification

    Italian Unification

    Led By:
    1) Camillo di Cavour: Prime Minister of Sardinia-Piedmont, establish Constitutional monarch
    disagreed on republic or monarchy
    2) Giuseppe Garibaldi: leader of the Redshirts (volunteer army), patriotic fight-skilled republican
  • Austro-Prussian War

    Austro-Prussian War

    Seven Weeks War
    Tension over control between 2 provinces
    Reducing Austrian influence over Northern German states
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    Franco-Prussian War

    Led by Otto Von Bismarck: Conservative, Machiavellian, united German states under Prussian rule
    France under Napoleon III: reassert French rule, nationalism End in German Unification under Kaiser Wilhelm I: granted title of German Emperor, leaves a lot of affairs to Bismarck
  • Congress of Berlin

    Congress of Berlin

    Bulgarian Independence Reorganization
  • Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed

    Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed

    Against France and Russia
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    Berlin Conference

    Organized by Bismarck to regulate African colonization
    90% of African continent colonized
  • Dreyfuss Affair

    Dreyfuss Affair

    Accused of betraying France by spilling war secrets through a note to German people
    He was innocent
    His handwriting was similar to the note, and Anti-Semetic people ran with it
    Emile Zola:Famous novelist, argues to the French president that Dreyfus’ whole case was unfair and has no evidence
    This event will help establish Zionist Movement: Supports a Jewish state in Israel
    Jewish people look for a homeland in Israel
  • Russian Revolutions of 1905

    Russian Revolutions of 1905

    Bloody Sunday Protests in Russia
    Russian loss in Russo-Japanese War
    Under Tsar Nicholas II (made decisions bad for civilians and soldiers, last Tsar of Russia), leads to creation of Duma (Russia's first elected Parliament)
  • Triple Entente Forms

    Triple Entente Forms

    Great Britain, France, Russia
    AGAINST
    Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
  • Bosnian Crisis

    Bosnian Crisis

    Austria-Hungary announced they were adding Bosnia and Herzegovina as territories (formerly part of Ottoman Empire)
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    Balkan Wars

    Balkan Leagues against Ottoman Empire
    Took almost all of the Ottoman Empire's land in Europe
  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
    Outbreak of World War I