Dates Quiz 1453-2010

139634428	1453	making the printing press as Constantinople falls to the Turks, 100 Years War ends
139634429	1492	Columbus lands in New World and Spain completes the Reconquista
139634430	1513	Machiavelli wrote The Prince
139634431	1517	Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses in Wittenberg Germany
139634432	1555	Charles V Habsburg agrees to the Peace of Augsburg
139634433	1588	Elizabeth I Tudor defeats Philip II of Spain's Spanish Armada
139634434	1598	Henry IV Bourbon issues the Edict of Nantes
139634435	1618	30 Years' War begins which later ends with the Treaty of Westphalia; solidifies Elbe-Trieste Line
139634436	1649	Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads in Parliament win the English Civil War and execute Charles I
139634437	1689	English Bill of Rights follows the Glorious Revolution, James II flees to Louis XIV's Versailles
139634438	1713	Pragmatic Sanction in Austria & Peace of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession, as Peter I Romanov moves his capitol to St. Petersburg and while Louis XIV is dying
139634439	1776	Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, Declaration of Independence begins American Revolution
139634440	1789	French Revolution began
139634441	1795	Final partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia, Russia
139634442	1799	Napoleon came to power in France
139634443	1815	Congress of Vienna exiles Napoleon, English Enclosure completes rural proletarization
139634444	1848	Revolutions everywhere but England & Russia, Marx/Engels' The Communist Manifesto
139634445	1861	Unification of Italy, Tsar Alexander II of Russia freed the serfs
139634446	1871	Unification of Germany
139634447	1899	Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, Dreyfus Affair, Kipling's White Man's Burden
139634448	1914	Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated to spark WWI
139634449	1917	Bolshevik-Russian Revolution pulls Russia out of WWI with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
139634450	1919	Treaty of Versailles tries to settle WWI, as the Spanish Flu pandemic spreads across the world
139634451	1929	Stock Market crash and Great Depression begins
139634452	1939	Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact, Hitler invades Poland to start WWII
139634453	1945	Atomic bombs end WWII and the Cold War and decolonization spreads
150993761	1756	diplomatic revolution-->Seven Years' War, population & illegitimacy explosion began
150993762	1949	NATO & COMECON formed, Berlin Airlift ends, China goes Communist under Mao, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
150993763	1957	Sputnik launches the Space Race & the supra-national Treaty of Rome creates the Common Market/European Economic Community (EC or EEC)
150993764	1961	Berlin Wall was built, US enters Vietnam
150993765	1968	Soviets crush the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia and student protests in Paris
150993766	1979	John Paul II becomes Pope, Soviets invade Afghanistan, Détente wanes, Thatcher in power
150993767	1989	Revolutions led to the fall of the Soviet bloc & the fall of Berlin wall leads to Germany re-unification (1990)
150993768	1991	Soviet Union collapses
150993769	1993	Maastricht Treaty creates the single market EU (European Union)
150993770	1999	NATO gets involved in the Kosovo Conflict in Yugoslavia, Euro begins being phased in as EU currency (in full effect by 2002)
150993771	2004	EU expands to include ten more, mostly former eastern bloc, countries
150993772	2010	Students wisely choose to take AP Euro