Timeline for A.P. Modern European History
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| 10139772 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna followed the defeat of Napoleon | |
| 10139773 | 1750-1850 | Industrial Revolution began in England | |
| 10139774 | 1848 | Karl Marx argued for socialism as revolutions swept Europe | |
| 10139775 | 1861 | Czar Alexander II freed the Russian serfs | |
| 10139776 | 1860's | Nationalism: Italy and Germany unified into modern nations | |
| 10139777 | 1870-1914 | British Empire dominated the age of imperialism | |
| 10139778 | 1905 | Czar Nicholas II forced to set up the Duma | |
| 10139779 | 1914-1918 | World War I: the old monarchies swept away | |
| 10139780 | 1917 | Russian Revolution won by Lenin's Bolsheviks | |
| 10139781 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles ended WWI and helped cause WWII | |
| 10139782 | 1930's | Great Depression weakened democracies and promoted dictators | |
| 10139783 | 1939-45 | World War II destroyed Europe and let Russia expand | |
| 10139784 | 1946-1990 | Cold War: U.S. and Russia struggled to dominate world power | |
| 10139785 | 1969 | Prague Spring: Czech effort to throw off communism crushed | |
| 10139786 | 1989 | Solidarity Movement in Poland overthrew communism | |
| 10139787 | 1992 | Maastricht Treaty created European Union | |
| 11302935 | c. 1350 | Renaissance began in cities of northern Italy | |
| 11302936 | 1492 | Columbus began European exploration of the "New World" | |
| 11302937 | 1517 | Luther began the Protestant Reformation | |
| 11302938 | c. 1520 | High Renaissance at its peak in Italy | |
| 11302939 | c. 1550 | Power shifted from Mediterranean to Atlantic countries | |
| 11302940 | 1588 | England defeated Philip II's Spanish Armada | |
| 11302941 | c. 1600 | Galileo and other astronomers challenged geocentric worldview | |
| 11302942 | 1640's | English Civil War: Cromwell's Puritans defeated the Stuarts | |
| 11302943 | 1648 | Treaty of Westphalia ended the 30 Years' War | |
| 11302944 | 1687 | Scientific Revolution: Newton and Locke found "natural laws" | |
| 11302945 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution created England's constitutional monarchy | |
| 11302946 | 1650-1750 | Enlightenment "philosophies" spread modern ideas | |
| 11302947 | c. 1690 | Absolute monarchy symbolized by Louis XIV at Versailles | |
| 11302948 | 1713 | Power shifted to England after the treaty of Utrecht | |
| 11302949 | 1740 | Frederick the Great attacked Austria | |
| 11302950 | 1789 | French Revolution began with the attack on the Bastille | |
| 11302951 | 1792 | Robespierre led the Reign of Terror in France |