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| 139634428 | 1453 | making the printing press as Constantinople falls to the Turks, 100 Years War ends | |
| 139634429 | 1492 | Columbus lands in New World and Spain completes the Reconquista | |
| 139634430 | 1513 | Machiavelli wrote The Prince | |
| 139634431 | 1517 | Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses in Wittenberg Germany | |
| 139634432 | 1555 | Charles V Habsburg agrees to the Peace of Augsburg | |
| 139634433 | 1588 | Elizabeth I Tudor defeats Philip II of Spain's Spanish Armada | |
| 139634434 | 1598 | Henry IV Bourbon issues the Edict of Nantes | |
| 139634435 | 1618 | 30 Years' War begins which later ends with the Treaty of Westphalia; solidifies Elbe-Trieste Line | |
| 139634436 | 1649 | Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads in Parliament win the English Civil War and execute Charles I | |
| 139634437 | 1689 | English Bill of Rights follows the Glorious Revolution, James II flees to Louis XIV's Versailles | |
| 139634438 | 1713 | Pragmatic Sanction in Austria & Peace of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession, as Peter I Romanov moves his capitol to St. Petersburg and while Louis XIV is dying | |
| 139634439 | 1776 | Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, Declaration of Independence begins American Revolution | |
| 139634440 | 1789 | French Revolution began | |
| 139634441 | 1795 | Final partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia, Russia | |
| 139634442 | 1799 | Napoleon came to power in France | |
| 139634443 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna exiles Napoleon, English Enclosure completes rural proletarization | |
| 139634444 | 1848 | Revolutions everywhere but England & Russia, Marx/Engels' The Communist Manifesto | |
| 139634445 | 1861 | Unification of Italy, Tsar Alexander II of Russia freed the serfs | |
| 139634446 | 1871 | Unification of Germany | |
| 139634447 | 1899 | Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, Dreyfus Affair, Kipling's White Man's Burden | |
| 139634448 | 1914 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated to spark WWI | |
| 139634449 | 1917 | Bolshevik-Russian Revolution pulls Russia out of WWI with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | |
| 139634450 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles tries to settle WWI, as the Spanish Flu pandemic spreads across the world | |
| 139634451 | 1929 | Stock Market crash and Great Depression begins | |
| 139634452 | 1939 | Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact, Hitler invades Poland to start WWII | |
| 139634453 | 1945 | Atomic bombs end WWII and the Cold War and decolonization spreads | |
| 150993761 | 1756 | diplomatic revolution-->Seven Years' War, population & illegitimacy explosion began | |
| 150993762 | 1949 | NATO & COMECON formed, Berlin Airlift ends, China goes Communist under Mao, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex | |
| 150993763 | 1957 | Sputnik launches the Space Race & the supra-national Treaty of Rome creates the Common Market/European Economic Community (EC or EEC) | |
| 150993764 | 1961 | Berlin Wall was built, US enters Vietnam | |
| 150993765 | 1968 | Soviets crush the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia and student protests in Paris | |
| 150993766 | 1979 | John Paul II becomes Pope, Soviets invade Afghanistan, Détente wanes, Thatcher in power | |
| 150993767 | 1989 | Revolutions led to the fall of the Soviet bloc & the fall of Berlin wall leads to Germany re-unification (1990) | |
| 150993768 | 1991 | Soviet Union collapses | |
| 150993769 | 1993 | Maastricht Treaty creates the single market EU (European Union) | |
| 150993770 | 1999 | NATO gets involved in the Kosovo Conflict in Yugoslavia, Euro begins being phased in as EU currency (in full effect by 2002) | |
| 150993771 | 2004 | EU expands to include ten more, mostly former eastern bloc, countries | |
| 150993772 | 2010 | Students wisely choose to take AP Euro |
