1453 100 Years War Ends; Constantinople Falls 1492 Columbus's Discovery; Reconquista Ends 1517 Martin Luther Posts his "95 Thesis" 1534 The Act of Supremacy; Jesuit Order is Founded 1555 The Peace of Augsburg 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada; Day of the Barricades 1598 Edict of Nantes is Issued by Henry IV 1603 Queen Elizabeth Dies 1648 Peace of Westphalia 1685 Edict of Nantes is revoked by Louis XIV 1688-1689 The Glorious Revolution 1713 The Treaty of Utrecht; Pragmatic Sanction of Austria 1740 War of Austrian Succession 1789 The French Revolution begins 1815 Napoleon's 100 Days; Congress of Vienna 1832 The great Reform Bill; Organic Statute 1848 The Year of Failed Revolutions; Communist Manifesto