AP European History Dates Flashcards
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| 6739472686 | 1492 | Expulsion of Jews and Moors from Spain; Columbus |  | 0 |
| 6739479906 | 1500-1525 | Period of High Renaissance |  | 1 |
| 6739456386 | 1517 | 95 theses |  | 2 |
| 6739740477 | 1532 | Conquest of Inca by Pizarro | 3 | |
| 6739490088 | 1543 | Copernicus; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Bodies) |  | 4 |
| 6739456387 | 1555 | Peace of Augsburg | 5 | |
| 6739495817 | 1559 | John Calvin; The Institutes of the Christian Religion | 6 | |
| 6739498199 | 1588 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada |  | 7 |
| 6739503811 | 1598 | Edict of Nantes issued by Henry IV |  | 8 |
| 6739456389 | 1603 | Death of Queen Elizabeth, beginning of Stuart Reign |  | 9 |
| 6739506784 | 1618-1648 | 30 Years' War |  | 10 |
| 6739483975 | 1642-1649 | English Civil War |  | 11 |
| 6739456390 | 1648 | Peace of Westphalia | 12 | |
| 6739456391 | 1687 | Newton's Principia published |  | 13 |
| 6739456392 | 1688 | Glorious Revolution |  | 14 |
| 6739456393 | 1715 | Louis XIV dies |  | 15 |
| 6739456395 | 1789-1799 | French Revolution |  | 16 |
| 6739549726 | 1660 | Restoration of English monarch | 17 | |
| 6739552512 | 1685 | Revocation of Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV |  | 18 |
| 6739563628 | 1690 | John Locke publishes 2nd Treatise on Civil Government and Essay Concerning Human Understanding | 19 | |
| 6739568334 | 1701 | Jethro Tull's seed drill | 20 | |
| 6739571158 | 1720 | Last appearance of bubonic plague - brown rat! | 21 | |
| 6739750127 | 1750 | Peak of the Enlightenment | 22 | |
| 6739574820 | 1762-1796 | Reign of Catherine the Great in Russia |  | 23 |
| 6739586325 | 1765 | Richard Arkwright invents the water frame | 24 | |
| 6739589944 | 1776 | Adam Smith; The Wealth of Nations | 25 | |
| 6739593246 | 1792 | Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | 26 | |
| 6739597835 | 1796 | Jenner creates smallpox vaccine | 27 | |
| 6739600646 | 1799-1814 | Napoleonic Era |  | 28 |
| 6739602901 | 1814-1815 | Congress of Vienna | 29 | |
| 6739605625 | 1848 | Revolutions in Europe; Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto | 30 | |
| 6739608988 | 1859 | Darwin; On the Origin of Species | 31 | |
| 6739613298 | 1871 | Unification of Germany | 32 | |
| 6739618040 | 1884-1885 | Berlin Conference |  | 33 |
| 6739625144 | 1914 | Great War begins |  | 34 |
| 6739619688 | 1905 | Einstein publishes relativity theory; Revolution in Russia | 35 | |
| 6739627049 | 1925 | Hitler; Mein Kampf published | 36 | |
| 6739630366 | 1961 | Berlin Wall built | 37 | |
| 6739632397 | 1955-1962 | 'de-Stalinization' under Khrushchev | 38 | |
| 6739639538 | 1972 | Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland | 39 | |
| 6739641514 | 1985 | Gorbachev begins reforms in USSR (perestroika, glasnost) | 40 | |
| 6739646488 | 1989 | Year of Miracles in Eastern Europe (collapse of communism) |  | 41 |
| 6739649594 | 1991 | Fall of USSR |  | 42 |
| 6739722376 | 1939 | Start of WWII; invasion of Poland | 43 | |
| 6739729543 | 1545-1563 | Councils of Trent; Catholic Reformation |  | 44 |
| 9917961873 | 1949 | NATO formed (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | 45 | |
| 9917983614 | 1929 | Great Depression | 46 | |
| 9918079017 | 1454 (about) | Gutenberg Bible published | 47 | |
| 9918085260 | 1870-1914 | 2nd Industrial Revolution |  | 48 |
| 9918101327 | 1968 | Prague Spring | 49 |