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| Movable printing press | ||
| Ottomans capture Constantinople | ||
| Erasmus, Praise of Folly | ||
| Lateran Council; start of Reformation | ||
| Machiavelli, The Prince | ||
| More, Utopia | ||
| Luther's Ninety-Five Theses | ||
| Charles V Holy Roman Emperor | ||
| Castiglione, Book of the Courtier | ||
| Henry VIII breaks with Rome | ||
| Act of Supremacy | ||
| Luther died; start of religious wars | ||
| Baroque movement | ||
| Peace of Augsburg (cuius regio, eius religio) | ||
| Philip II of Spain | ||
| Revolt in the Netherlands | ||
| St Bartholomew's Day Massacre | ||
| Defeat of Spanish Armada | ||
| Edict of Nantes | ||
| Death of Elizabeth I; end of Renaissance | ||
| Thirty Years' War | ||
| English Civil War | ||
| Louis XIV | ||
| Restoration of the English monarchy | ||
| Colbert's commercialism in France | ||
| Revocation of the Edict of Nantes | ||
| Glorious Revolution in England | ||
| Montesquieu born; start of the Enlightenment | ||
| Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government | ||
| War of Spanish Succession | ||
| Peace of Utrecht | ||
| Reign of Louis XVI of France | ||
| War of Austrian Succession | ||
| Reign of Maria Theresa of Austria | ||
| Seven Years War (French and Indian War) | ||
| Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia | ||
| Start of the French Revolution | ||
| Romantic movement | ||
| Napoleonic era | ||
| Congress of Vienna | ||
| Marx, Communist Manifesto | ||
| Crimean War | ||
| Bismarck in power | ||
| Unification of Germany | ||
| Third Republic in France | ||
| Congress of Berlin | ||
| Berlin Conference | ||
| Scramble for Africa | ||
| World War I | ||
| Start of World War II in Europe | ||
| Treaty of Rome- created European Economic Community |
