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24355600Black Death1348-1351
24355601Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism1415-1417
24356122Fall of Constantinople; End of Hundred Years' War1453
24356124Invention of printing press1455
24356125Columbus encounters America; Completion of reconquista in Spain1492
24356127Luther posts 95 Theses1517
24356128Cortez conquers Aztecs1519
24356129Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church1534
24356130Calvin establishes reformed faith in Geneva1536
24356131Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory1543
24356132Council of Trent opens1545
24356133Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany; Charles V abdicates1555
24356678Defeat of the Spanish Armada1588
24356679Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars1598
24356680Dutch East India Company founded1600
24356681Stuart monarchy begins in England1603
24356682Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War1648
24356683Charles I executed in England1649
24356684Newton publishes Principia Mathematica1687
24356685Glorious Revolution1688-1689
24356686Peter the Great's reign begins in Russia1688
24356993Bank of England founded1694
24356994Peace of Utrecht1713-1715
24356995Death of Louis XIV1715
24356996War of Austrian Succession begins1740
24356997Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War1763
24356998American Revolution; Smith publishes Wealth of Nations1776
24357000French Revolution begins1789
24357001Wollstonecraft begins feminist movement with Vindication of Rights of Women1792
24357002Napoleon comes to power in France1799
24357003Abdication of Napoleon; Congress of Vienna1815
24357005Revolution in France; Belgian and Greek independence1830-1831
24357007Revolutions of 1848; Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto1848
24357353Crystal Palace Exhibition in Britain1851
24357354Britain establishes direct rule of India1857
24357355Darwin publishes Origin of the Species1859
24357356Italy unified; Russian serfs emancipated1861
24357358Unification of Germany; Paris Commune and Third Republic in France1871
24357360Berlin Conference over imperialism in Africa1884-1885
24357361Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams1900
24357362Einstein publishes relativity theory; Revolution of 1905 in Russia1905
24357364World War I begins1914
24357365Bolshevik Revolution in Russia1917
24357366Treaty of Versailles ends World War I1919
24357367Fascists and Mussolini come to power in Italy1922
24357368Great Depression begins1929
24357369Hitler comes to power in Germany1933
24357370Munich Conference - height of appeasement1938
24357824World War II begins1939
24357825World War II ends; United Nations founded1945
24357827NATO formed1949
24357828European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) formed1951
24357829Stalin dies1953
24357830Khrushchev's de-Stalinization speech; Hungary revolt1956
24357832Treaty of Rome creates European Economic Community (EEC); Sputnik launched1957
24357834Fifth Republic in France under DeGaulle1958
24357835Berlin Wall erected1961
24357836Cuban Missile Crisis; Second Vatican Council begins1962
24358296Student revolts; Czech "Prague Spring" revolt1968
24358298Helinski Accords - height of detente1975
24358299John Paul II elected Pope1978
24358300Soviet Union invades Afghanistan; Thatcher elected prime minister in Britain1979
24358302Solidarity founded in Poland1980
24358303Gorbachev comes to power in Soviet Union1985
24358304Berlin Wall falls and collapse of communism1989
24358305Break-up of Soviet Union; Balkan conflicts begin in former Yugoslavia1991
24358307Maastricht Treaty creates European Union (EU)1992
24358308Euro currency introduced1999
24358309Terrorist attacks on the United States2001
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