AP European History Timeline

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Petersburg 1733 John Kay’s Flying Shuttle 1740 After Pragmatic Sanction, Maria Theresa ascends to Austrian throne; Frederick II (the Great) ascends to Prussian throne, invades Austria (War of Austrian Succession) 1756 Diplomatic Revolution; Seven Years War (including French and Indian War in America) 1762 Rousseau’s Social Contract and Emile 1763 Seven Years War ends with Treaty of Paris 1768 Hargreaves Spinning Jenny 1771 Arkwright’s Water Frame 1776 Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence and Smith’s Wealth of Nations 1785 Cartwright’s Power Loom 1789 American Constitution; the beginning of the French Revolution 1792 Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women 1793 Cotton Gin 1793-94 Reign of Terror, led by Robespierre 1798 Malthus’s Essay on Human Population (Food supply will never keep up with natural population growth) 1799 End of French Revolution 1801 Napoleon signs Concordat with the pope 1804 Napoleon crowns himself 1814-1815 Congress of Vienna, chaired by Metternich (Austria) participants: Britain (Castlereagh), Prussia (Hardenberg), France (Talleyrand), Russia (Alexander I) 1815 Napoleon falls at Waterloo and is exiled to Saint Helena 1817 Ricardo’s Iron Law of Wages 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Britain; Carlsbad Decrees in German Confederation (dissolved student unions, provided for government inspection of universities, censored press) 1821-1829 Greek War for Independence 1833 Factory Act of 1833 (Inspection of factories, limitation on hours, at least two hours of education per day for children) 1834 Zollverein, German Customs Union, created trade union between German states, except Austria 1842 Chadwick Report 1845 General Enclosure Act in England 1845-51 Great Famine in Ireland 1846 Parliament repealed the Corn Laws 1848 Louis Napoleon elected president of the Second Republic; Public Health Act of 1848 provided for the development of sanitary systems and public health boards to inspect conditions; Metternich flees to Britain; Marx and Engel’s Communist Manifesto 1849 Frankfurt Assembly completed its constitution and offered the crown to Frederick William IV who rejects the “crown from the gutter”; Louis Napoleon restores the pope in Rome 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition 1853-1856 Crimean War (Russia vs...