AP Euro: important years
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| Dictatus Papae by Gregory VII | ||
| 100 years war | ||
| War of the Roses | ||
| Peace of Lodi (ends Italian wars for 40 years) | ||
| Battle of Bosworth | ||
| Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope (Africa) | ||
| Treaty of Torsedillas (Portuguese get east of line, Spanish get west) | ||
| Vasco da Gama reaches Indies | ||
| Concordat of Bologna (gives French king lay investiture- can appoint clergy) | ||
| Magellan's journey finishes | ||
| Sacking of Rome by unpaid German mercenaries | ||
| Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis | ||
| Council of Pisa | ||
| Golden Bull by Charles IV, Holy Roman Empire | ||
| English nobility write the Magna Carta | ||
| Crowning of Charlemagne | ||
| Battle of Crecy | ||
| the Jaquerie (French peasants revolted against over-taxation; lost to royal army) | ||
| Agincourt (English victory) | ||
| The Prince was published | ||
| Edict of Nantes by Henry of Navarre/Henry IV of France | ||
| Petition of Right written by English Parliament | ||
| Long Parliament | ||
| The Instrument of Government makes Oliver Cromwell "Lord Protector" | ||
| Glorious Revolution | ||
| English Bill of Rights | ||
| Battle of Poltava | ||
| Battle of Lepanto, Holy League defeats Turks | ||
| Pacification of Ghent | ||
| Defenestration of Prague | ||
| 30 Years War | ||
| Edict of Restitution is issued by Ferdinand I, undoing Edict of Nantes | ||
| Peace of Westphalia | ||
| Battle of Poltava | ||
| Peace of Augsberg | ||
| Martin Luther posts 95 theses | ||
| Diet at Worms | ||
| printing press invented | ||
| Battle of White Mountain | ||
| Edict of Restitution | ||
| Battle of Lutzen; Swedish win but Gustavus Adolphus is killed | ||
| first phase of English civil war | ||
| Charles I restarts English Civil War - gets beheaded | ||
| Elizabeth dies | ||
| Act of Unity joins England and Scotland | ||
| Treaty of Utrecht | ||
| official start of Industrial Revolution in England | ||
| Catherine de Medici dismissed the Estates General | ||
| Council of Notables refuses to pay taxes | ||
| Estates General meet | ||
| Louis XVI loses power; French Revolution occurs | ||
| height of Revolution; reign of Terror under Robespierre | ||
| Napoleon seizes power from the Directory | ||
| Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France (turning point for Napoleon as a person) | ||
| Declaration of Pilmits: Austria & Prussia declare opposition to the French Revolution | ||
| Napoleon lost naval battle (Trafalgars) to English and Lord Nelson | ||
| Napoleon imposed the Continental Sysem | ||
| unsuccessful invasion of Russia | ||
| Napoleon defeated and banished | ||
| final defeat at Waterloo; Congress of Vienna | ||
| July monarchy; Louis Phillipe takes throne from Charles X | ||
| Factory Act | ||
| Ten Hour Act | ||
| Charles 10th takes throne; Louis XVIII dies | ||
| official date of Italian unification | ||
| Austro-Prussian War | ||
| Franco-Prussian War | ||
| WWI begins; Archduke is assasinated | ||
| Bolshevik Revolution leads Russia to sign Brest-Litovsk, surrendering to Germany | ||
| Armistice signed | ||
| Treaty of Versailles | ||
| Fascist march on Rome | ||
| US economy tanks (Black Tuesday) | ||
| Hitler becomes chancellor in Germany | ||
| Italian invasion of Ethiopia | ||
| Anschluss (Austrian annexation) and Kristellnacht | ||
| Germany invades Poland; France and Britain declare war | ||
| Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII | ||
| June 6th was D-Day | ||
| WWII ends; Potsdam and Yalta conferences | ||
| Berlin Airlift | ||
| USSR gets atomic bomb from Rosenberg couple; NATO and Warsaw Pact are formed | ||
| Geneva Summit | ||
| Hungarian revolution | ||
| Kruschev builds Berlin Wall | ||
| Prague Spring and invasion of Czechloslovakia | ||
| Christmas: Gorbachev, last dictator of USSR, resigns |