4 Periods of Modern European History - Timeline - Weebly
Year
476 C.E.
4 Periods of Modern European History - Timeline
PERIOD I : 1450-1648
TOP TIER
Event(s)
End of the Roman Empire/
significance
Year
(Beginning of the Middle Ages)
ADDITIONAL
event
1347
Black Death appears in Europe
Severe depopulation
1378 Beginning of Great Western Schism
1450 1453 1492
Printing press in Europe End of 100 years war Columbus's voyage
1517 1534 1543
1545 1555
95 Theses
Act of Supremacy
On the Revolution [de Revolutione] of Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus) Council of Trent begins Peace of Augsburg
1588 Defeat of the Spanish armada 1598 Edict of Nantes
Major increase in literacy Rise of sovereign states Expansion of European influence
1417 ? 1450 ?
end of Great Western Schism Fall of Constantinople
start of Reformation start of English Reformation start of Scientific Revolution
1509 1513
Praise of Folly (Erasmus) The Prince ( Machiavelli)
1524 Peasant Rebellions
1536 Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin)
Start of Catholic and Counter-reformation Recognized Lutheranism as a religion
1558 1562 1572
Beginning of Spanish Decline End of French Wars of Religion
Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity Beginning of French Wars of Religion St. Bartholomew Day Massacre
1603
End of Elizabeth I's reign/
Beginning of Stuart rule in England
1618 1632
1642
Beginning of 30 years war
Dialogues (Dialoga) Concerning 2 Chief World Systems (Galileo) Beginning of English Civil War
1648
Year
Peace of Westphalia
Event(s)
End of 30 years War
PERIOD 2 : 1648-1815 Top Tier
significance
1653 End of the Fronde
Firmly establish reign of Louis xiv
1688 Glorious Revolution
End of English absolutism
ADDITIONAL
Year
event
1649 Execution of Charles I
1651 Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
1683 1685 1687
Battle of Vienna
Edict of Nantes revoked by Louis XIV
Mathematical Principles [Principia] of Natural Philosophy (Newton)
1689 Two Treatises on Gov't (Locke)/ English Bill of Rights
1715
Death Louis XIV
1740
War of Austrian Succession
1763 End of 7-years War 1776 Declaration of Independence 1787 U.S. Constitution written 1789 Storming of the Bastille
1799 Napoleon becomes Consul
1701 Act of Settlement
Beginning of decline of French Absolutism
1715 End of the War of Spanish Succession 1720 Mississippi Bubble scandal
1725 Death of Peter the Great
Beginning Austro/Prussian Rivalry
1748 Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu)
1756 Diplomatic Revolution
Britain established as world Power
(over France)
American Colonies establish
1776 Wealth of Nations (Smith)
democracy
American federal government
established
Beginning of French Revolution
1792 Execution of Louis XVI
Rise of Napoleon
1804 Napoleon crowns himself Emperor
1815
Year
1817
Congress of Vienna
end of Napoleonic Wars
PERIOD 3 : 1815 - 1914
Top Tier
Event(s)
Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages
significance
Conservatives embrace classical economic policies
1815 Beginning of Concert of Europe
ADDITIONAL
Year
event
1821 Greek Revolution
1848 Revolutions across Europe 1856 Crimean War ends
Rise of Nationalist and Democratic movements
End of Concert of Europe
1830 July Revolution in France
183 2
Great Reform Bill (Britain)
1845 Beginning of Great Hunger in Ireland
1848 Communist Manifesto written (Marx)
1858 On The Origin of the Species (Darwin)
1871 End of Franco-Prussian War Unification of Germany
1894 Dreyfus affair
1904
Russo-Japanese War
Russian loss encourages revolution in Russia
1905 Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity
1914
Year
Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Beginning of WWI
PERIOD 4 ? 1914-present
Top Tier
Event(s)
Significance
1917 1918 1919
1922 1923
Russian Revolutions WW1 armistice Treaty of Versailles
Mussolini elected Prime Minister of Italy Occupation of the Ruhr begins
1929 US Stock Market crash
1933
Hitler elected German Chancellor
Russia exits WW1/ begins Communism End of WW1 fighting Germany is blamed for WWI Rise of Fascism Hyperinflation encourages fascism in Germany
Beginning of Great Depression
Nazi party takes control of Germany
1938 Munich Pact 1939 German Invasion of Poland
1941 1943
Germans start Operation Barbarossa Italy Surrenders
1945 German, then Japanese surrender 1948 Berlin Airlift
1953 1956
End of the Korean War Kruschev secret speech
1961 1962 1968
1975 1979
1985 1989
1991 1993 1999
2001
Berlin Wall built Cuban Missile Crisis Prague Spring
US leaves Vietnam USSR invades Afghanistan
Gorbachev elected Soviet Premier Fall of Berlin Wall
Fall of USSR Maastricht Treaty The Euro adopted as the common EU currency
September 11th attacks in the U.S.
Appeasement fails Beginning of WW 2
Russia enters WW2/ Britain is spared Italy switches sides
End of WW2 First major Cold War Crisis
First proxy war ends in a draw Perceived softening of Soviet Communism
Symbolized Communist oppression in Eastern Europe Height of Cold War nuclear tension Brezhnev doctrine reaffirms Soviet dominance American loss after 20 year Cold War conflict Known as the "Soviet Vietnam" Soviet oppression eased Reunification of Germany End of Cold War Established the European Union Expansion of European economic power Beginning of War on Terror
ADDITIONAL
Year
1915 1916 1917
Sinking of Lusitania Easter Rising (Ireland) US enters WWI
event
1922 1923 1924
End of Russian Civil War Hitler attempts Beer Hall Putsch (Munich) Death of Lenin
1931
1934 1935 1936 1938
Japan invades Manchuria (China)
Night of Long Knives eliminates Hitler's enemies Italy invades Ethiopia Stalin's Great Purge Begins Kristallnacht riot against German Jews
1940 1941 1943
1944
Fall of France US enters WW2 Tehran Conference
D-Day
1949 Soviets test their first atomic bomb
1956 1957
1960 1961
Cold War Crises in Hungary, Poland, Suez Launch of Sputnik I starts space Race
U2 Spy plane incident Failed US invasion of Cuba (Bay of Pigs)
2001 US begins war in Afghanistan
2014
Beginning of European migrant crisis
2016 Brexit referendum
Largest refugee migration since ww2 increases nationalism Threatens European unity
2007 2009 2014
US subprime Mortgage crisis Beginning of European debt crisis End of NATO combat operations in Afghanistan
Four Periods of Modern European History
I. 1450 ? 1648
Renaissance Reformation Scientific
Revolution
II. 1648 -1815
Absolutism Enlightenment
III. 1815 ? 1914
Industrialization Nationalism Imperialism
IV. 1914 - Present
World Wars Cold War new millennium
uncertainty
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