Important dates
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| 159967506 | 1348 | Black Death | |
| 159967507 | 1415-1417 | Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism | |
| 159967508 | 1453 | Fall of Constantinople; end of Hundred Years' War | |
| 159967509 | 1455 | Invention of printing press | |
| 159967510 | 1492** | Columbus encounters America; completion of reconquista in Spain | |
| 159967511 | 1517** | Luther posts 95 theses | |
| 159967512 | 1519 | Cortez conquers Aztecs | |
| 159967513 | 1534 | Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church | |
| 159967514 | 1536 | Calvin established reformed faith in Geneva | |
| 159967515 | 1543 | Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory | |
| 159967516 | 1545 | Council of Trent opens | |
| 159967517 | 1555** | Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany; Charles V abdicates | |
| 159967518 | 1588** | Defeat of Spanish Armada | |
| 159967519 | 1598 | Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars | |
| 159967520 | 1600 | Dutch East India Company founded | |
| 159967522 | 1648** | Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War | |
| 159967523 | 1649 | Charles I executed in England | |
| 159967524 | 1687 | Newton publishes Principia Mathematica | |
| 159967525 | 1688** | Glorious Revolution | |
| 159967527 | 1713** | Peace of Utrecht | |
| 159967529 | 1763** | Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War | |
| 159967530 | 1776 | American Revolution; Smith publishes Wealth of Nations | |
| 159967531 | 1789** | French Revolution begins | |
| 159967532 | 1792 | Wollstonecraft begins feminist movement with Vindication of Rights of Women | |
| 159967533 | 1799 | Napoleon comes to power in France | |
| 159967534 | 1815** | Congress of Vienna | |
| 159967535 | 1830 | Revolution in France | |
| 159967536 | 1848** | Revolutions of 1848; Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto | |
| 159967537 | 1851 | Crystal Palace Exhibition in Britain | |
| 159967538 | 1857 | Britain establishes direct rule of India | |
| 159967539 | 1859 | Darwin publishes Origin of the Species | |
| 159967540 | 1861 | Italy unified; Russian serfs emancipated | |
| 159967541 | 1871** | Unification of Germany | |
| 159967542 | 1884-1885 | Berlin Conference over imperialism in Africa | |
| 159967544 | 1905 | Einstein publishes relativity theory | |
| 159967545 | 1914** | World War I begins | |
| 159967546 | 1917 | Bolshevik Revolution in Russia | |
| 159967547 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles ends World War I | |
| 159967548 | 1922 | Fascists and Mussolini come to power in Italy | |
| 159967549 | 1929** | Great Depression begins with Stock Market Crash | |
| 159967550 | 1933** | Hitler comes to power in Germany by becoming Chancellor | |
| 159967551 | 1938 | Munich Conference - height of appeasement | |
| 159967552 | 1939 | World War II begins | |
| 159967553 | 1945** | World War II ends; United Nations founded | |
| 159967554 | 1949 | NATO formed | |
| 159967556 | 1953 | Stalin dies | |
| 159967557 | 1956 | Hungary revolt | |
| 159967558 | 1957 | Treaty of Rome creates European Economic Community (EEC); Sputnik launched | |
| 159967559 | 1958 | Fifth Republic in France under DeGaulle | |
| 159967560 | 1961** | Berlin Wall erected | |
| 159967561 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis; Second Vatican Council begins | |
| 159967562 | 1968** | Student revolts; Czech "Prague Spring" revolt | |
| 159967563 | 1975 | Helsinki Accords - height of détente | |
| 159967565 | 1979 | Soviet Union invades Afghanistan; Thatcher elected prime minister in Britain | |
| 159967566 | 1980 | Solidarity founded in Poland | |
| 159967567 | 1985 | Gorbachev comes to power in Soviet Union | |
| 159967568 | 1989** | Berlin wall falls and collapse of communism | |
| 159967569 | 1991 | Break-up of Soviet Union; Balkan conflicts begin in former Yugoslavia | |
| 159967570 | 1992 | Maastricht Treaty creates European Union (EU) | |
| 159967572 | 2001** | Terrorist attacks on the Trade Towers in New York ( 9/11 ) | |
| 160071433 | 2002** | Introduction of the Euro |