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This is the appendix A from The Complete Idiot's Guide to European History by Nathan Barber.

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202323669Hundred Years' War1337-1453
202323670Bubonic plague1347
202323671Publication of Boccacio's Decameronc1350
202323672The Great Schism1377-1418
202323673Ciompi revolt in Florence1378
202323674Publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Talesc1390
202323675Johann Gutenberg invents the movable type printing pressc1450
202323676War of the Roses1455-1485
202323677Ferdinand and Isabella marry and unite Castile and Aragon or modern-day Spain1469
202323678Tudor era begins in England after the War of the Roses1485
202323679Colombus lands in the Bahamas1492
202323680Ferdinand and Isabella kick Jews out of Spain1492
202323681Leonardo da Vinci works on Mona Lisa1503-1506
202323682Michaelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel ceiling1508-1512
202323683Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince1513
202323684Desiderius Erasmus produces his Greek and Latin translations of the New Testament. Both, according to Erasmus, are more accurate than the Vulgate1516-1519
202323685Johann Tetzel begins sale of indulgences1517
202323686Martin Luther writes and perhaps posts his 95 Theses1517
202323687Ferdinand Magellan's expedition circumnavigates the globe1519-1522
202323688Charles V and the Diet of Worms outlaw Martin Luther1521
202323689Cortes destroys Aztec empire1521
202323690German peasants revolt in Luther's name1525
202323691King Henry VIII receives annulment of marriage to Catherine of Aragon1527
202323692Diet of Speyer uses "Protestant" for the first time1529
202323693Pizarro destroys Inca empire1530
202323694Act of Supremacy makes Henry VIII head of Church of England1534
202323695Publication of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion1536
202323696Publication of Copernicus's On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies1543
202323697Thomas Cranmer issues the Book of Common Prayer for the Church of England1549
202323698The Peace of Augsburg allows German princes to choose the religion of their principalities1555
202323699Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England1558
202323700The Netherlands revolt against Spain1568
202323701Defeat of the Spanish armada1588
202323702William Shakespeare begins writingc1590
202323703Henry IV issues Edict of Nantes1598
202323704James VI of Scotland becomes first Stuart king of England1603
202323705Publication of the King James Bible in England1611
202323706Defenestration of Prague begins the Thirty Years' War1618
202323707William Harvey develops theory on the circulation of blood1628
202323708Publication of Galileo's Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World1632
202323709Trial of Galileo1633
202323710The English Civil War1642-1649
202323711Louis XIV rules France1643-1715
202323712Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War1648
202323713Cromwell rules the Protectorate in England1653-1658
202323714Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes1685
202323715Publication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia1687
202323716The Glorious Revolution in England1688
202323717Peter the Great becomes czar of Russia1689
202323718Thomas Savery creates first steam engine1698
202323719War of the Spanish Succession1701-1713
202323720Johann Sebastian Bach completes the Brandenburg Concertos1721
202323721John Kay creates the flying shuttle1733
202323722Pinnacle of Prussian military state under Frederick William I "the Soldiers' King"1740
202323723Publication of Diderot's Encyclopedie1751
202323724The Lisbon earthquake1755
202323725Seven Years' War1756-1763
202323726Publication of Voltaire's Candide1759
202323727Catherine the Great begins her rule in Russia1762
202323728Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writes first symphony at age eight1764
202323729James Hargreaves invents the cotton spinning jenny1765
202323730British colonies in America declare their independence1776
202323731Publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations1776
202323732Louis XVI calls for Assembly of Notables1787
202323733French Revolution1789-1794
202323734King Louis XVI of France is executed for treason1793
202323735Edward Jenner developrs smallpox vaccine1796
202323736Publication of Thomas Malthus's Essays on the Principle of Population1798
202323737Publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge1798
202323738Napoleon takes control of French government - Napoleonic era1799-1815
202323739Combination Acts in England bans labor unions1799
202323740Ludwig von Beethoven completes Fifth Symphony1808
202323741Napoleon suffers defeat in Russia1812
202323742The Congress of Vienna ends Napoleonic era1815
202323743Age of Metternich1815-1848
202323744Creation of Prussian Zollverein1818
202323745George Stephenson invents the locomotive1825
202323746Frederic Chopin's first piano concerts in Vienna1829
202323747Revolution erupts in France, again1830
202323748Reform legislation passes in England including Reform bill in 1832, Poor Law, and the repeal of the Corn Laws1832-1846
202323749Great Potato Famine in Ireland1845-1846
202323750Publication of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels1848
202323751Revolutions break out in Paris, Hungary, and Vienna - rise of nationalism1848
202323752Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor Napoleon III of France1851
202323753Publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species1859
202323754Giuseppe Garibaldi and his 1000 Red Shirts invad Sicily1860
202323755Unification of Italy1861
202323756Prince Otto bon Bismarck becomes minister-president of Prussia1862
202323757First transatlantic cable from Europe to the United States1866
202323758Austro-Prussian War1866
202323759Franco-Prussian War1870-1871
202323760Unification of Germany1871
202323761Scramble for Africa - imperialism1880-1900
202323762The Dreyfus Affair in France1894
202323763Boxer Rebellion in China1898
202323764The Spanish-American War1898
202323765Marie Curie discovers radium1898
202323766Publication of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden1899
202323767The British fight Afrikaners in the Boer War1899-1902
202323768The First Russian Revolution1905
202323769Albert Einstein works on theory of relativity1905-1910
202323770World War I, aka the Great War, aka the War to End All Wars1914-1918
202323771Russian Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution1917-1918
202323772The Treaty of Versailles1919
202323773Benito Mussolini rises to power in Italy1922
202323774Stalin begins Five-Year Plans1928
202323775The Great Depression1929-1939
202323776Publication of Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front1929
202323777Talkies become part of entertainment culture1930
202323778Adolf Hitler rises to power in Germany1933
202323779Hitler and Mussolini back Franco in the Spanish Civil War1936
202323780Publication of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money1936
202323781Hitler and Stalin sign non-aggression pact1939
202323782Hitler invades Poland1939
202323783World War II and the Holocaust1939-1945
202323784First meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations1946
202323785The Marshall Plan1947
202323786The Berlin Airlift1948
202323787Israel becomes a nation1948
202323788Cold War1950-1970s
202323789De-stalinization in Soviet Union1955-1962
202323790Russians launch Sputnik satellite into orbit1957
202323791Treaty of Rome creates European Common Market1957
202323792U-2 spy plane incident1960
202323793Construction of the Berlin Wall1961
202323794Cuban Missile Crisis1962
202323795Detente in Cold War1970s
202323796Margaret Thatcher becomes British prime minister1979
202323797Soviet Union invades Afghanistan1979
202323798Nuclear accident in Chernobyl1986
202323799Fall of Berlin Wall - reunification of East and West Germany1989
202323800Fall of communism in Europe1989
202323801The Soviet Union collapses1991
202323802War in former Yugoslavia1991-1995
202323803Treaty of Maastricht creates the European Union1992
202323804Mother Theresa dies1997
202323805Trial of Slobodan Milosevic begins2002
202323806Pope John Paul II dies2005
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