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1599675061348Black Death
1599675071415-1417Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism
1599675081453Fall of Constantinople; end of Hundred Years' War
1599675091455Invention of printing press
1599675101492**Columbus encounters America; completion of reconquista in Spain
1599675111517**Luther posts 95 theses
1599675121519Cortez conquers Aztecs
1599675131534Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church
1599675141536Calvin established reformed faith in Geneva
1599675151543Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
1599675161545Council of Trent opens
1599675171555**Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany; Charles V abdicates
1599675181588**Defeat of Spanish Armada
1599675191598Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars
1599675201600Dutch East India Company founded
1599675221648**Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War
1599675231649Charles I executed in England
1599675241687Newton publishes Principia Mathematica
1599675251688**Glorious Revolution
1599675271713**Peace of Utrecht
1599675291763**Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War
1599675301776American Revolution; Smith publishes Wealth of Nations
1599675311789**French Revolution begins
1599675321792Wollstonecraft begins feminist movement with Vindication of Rights of Women
1599675331799Napoleon comes to power in France
1599675341815**Congress of Vienna
1599675351830Revolution in France
1599675361848**Revolutions of 1848; Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto
1599675371851Crystal Palace Exhibition in Britain
1599675381857Britain establishes direct rule of India
1599675391859Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
1599675401861Italy unified; Russian serfs emancipated
1599675411871**Unification of Germany
1599675421884-1885Berlin Conference over imperialism in Africa
1599675441905Einstein publishes relativity theory
1599675451914**World War I begins
1599675461917Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
1599675471919Treaty of Versailles ends World War I
1599675481922Fascists and Mussolini come to power in Italy
1599675491929**Great Depression begins with Stock Market Crash
1599675501933**Hitler comes to power in Germany by becoming Chancellor
1599675511938Munich Conference - height of appeasement
1599675521939World War II begins
1599675531945**World War II ends; United Nations founded
1599675541949NATO formed
1599675561953Stalin dies
1599675571956Hungary revolt
1599675581957Treaty of Rome creates European Economic Community (EEC); Sputnik launched
1599675591958Fifth Republic in France under DeGaulle
1599675601961**Berlin Wall erected
1599675611962Cuban Missile Crisis; Second Vatican Council begins
1599675621968**Student revolts; Czech "Prague Spring" revolt
1599675631975Helsinki Accords - height of détente
1599675651979Soviet Union invades Afghanistan; Thatcher elected prime minister in Britain
1599675661980Solidarity founded in Poland
1599675671985Gorbachev comes to power in Soviet Union
1599675681989**Berlin wall falls and collapse of communism
1599675691991Break-up of Soviet Union; Balkan conflicts begin in former Yugoslavia
1599675701992Maastricht Treaty creates European Union (EU)
1599675722001**Terrorist attacks on the Trade Towers in New York ( 9/11 )
1600714332002**Introduction of the Euro
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