Euro Ap Timeline

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1300 1337 - Hundred Year’s War 1348 - The Bubonic Plague 1400 1400 - Italian Renaissance 1450 - Printing Press 1452 - 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci 1492 - Discovery of the New World 1500 1520 - The Protestant Reformation 1530 - Spanish Conquistadors 1543 - The Structure of the Human Body 1543 - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs 1555 - Peace of Augsburg 1561 - 1650 - Bacon and Descartes 1600 1600 - Mercantilism and the East India Companies 1609 - Galileo Constructs a Telescope 1618 - 1648 - Thirty Years War 1630 - 1640 - Puritans Settle in New England 1643 - Louis XIV Takes Throne of France 1648 - Peace of Westphalia 1650 - 1700 - Pre-Imperialism 1651 - Hobbes and Locke 1652 - Liberum Veto 1653 - Thomas Pitt 1657 - Formation of Prussia 1660 - English Restoration 1682 - Peter the Great 1687 - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 1688 - Glorious Revolution 1689 - Montesquieu Born 1694 - Voltaire Born 1700 1712 - Rousseau Born 1713 - War of Spanish Succession and the Peace of Utrecht 1713 - Pragmatic Sanction 1720 - The Breaking of the ‘Bubbles’ 1733 - 1763 - Austrian Succession, French and Indian War and 7 Years War 1751 - 1772 - The Encyclopedia 1762 - Catherine the Great 1763 - Peace of Paris 1763 - Steam Engine 1772 - Partition of Poland 1775 - The American Revolution 1776 - Wealth of Nations 1789 - The French Revolution 1791 - Declaration of Pillnitz and the Coalitions 1792 - The Terror 1793 - Cotton Gin 1799 - Napoleon Takes Power 1800 1800 - 1850 - The Rise of Germanic Nationalism 1803 - Louisiana Purchase 1809 - Defeat of Austria 1812 - War of 1812 1812 - The Defeat of Napoleon 1814 - The Congress of Vienna 1815 - The Hundred Days and the Escape of Napoleon 1818 - Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle 1819 - 1850s - The Isms 1820s - Latin American Independence 1821 - Gold Standard 1823 - The Monroe Doctrine 1830s - Revolutions of Europe 1839 - Opium Wars in China 1845 - Mexican American War 1848 - February Revolution 1848 - Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1848 - March Days and the German Revolutions 1848 - The Frankfurt Assembly 1848 - The Communist Manifesto and Marxism 1848 - Communist Manifesto 1850 1850s - Ottoman Empire Collapsing 1850 - 1940 - Migration from Europe 1854 - 1856 - Crimean War 1859 - Italian Unification 1859 - Origin of the Species 1861 - Emancipation Act 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation 1867 - Dominion of Canada 1871 - Bismarck and German Empire 1871 - Paris Commune 1877 - Russo-Turkish War and Congress of Berlin 1900 1900ish - Rise of Imperialism 1904 - Russo Japanese War 1905 - Revolution of 1905 and Bloody Sunday 1914 - Assassination of Francis Ferdinand 1917 - Zimmerman Telegram 1917 - Lusitania Sinking 1917 - Revolution of 1917 1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1919 - Treaty of Versailles and Wilson’s 14 Points 1922 - Formation of USSR 1922 - Italian Fascism and Mussolini 1924 - Rise of Stalin 1924 - Dawes Plan 1925 1925 - Locarno 1926 - English General Strike 1928 - The Purges and 5 Year Plans 1929 - Great Depression 1932 - FDR Elected 1933 - Reichstag Fire and Rise of the Nazi Party 1934 - Long March 1935 - Nuremburg Laws 1936 - The Spanish Civil War 1938 - Munich Crisis 1941 - Lend-Lease Begins 1943 - Stalingrad 1944 - D-Day 1945 - Potsdam Conference 1945 - Formation of the United Nations 1945 - Central American Growth 1947 - Marshall Plan 1947 - End of British in India 1948 - Berlin Blockade 1948 - The Mess in the Middle East 1950 1950 - The Korean War 1953 - The Death of Stalin and Hardening of the Cold War 1960s - African Pullout 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 - Kennedy Assassination 1963 - Nuclear Arms Treaty 1965 - The Vietnam War 1969 - Moon Landing 1975 1975 - Helsinki Conference 1984 - The Birth of Alex Fortney 1986 - Chernobyl 1987 - World Population at 5 Billion 1989 - The Berlin Wall 1991 - Gulf War