Timeline 2: Important Dates to Commit to Memory
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 1348-1351 | Black Death |
| 1415-1417 | Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism |
| 1453 | Fall of Constantinople |
| 1453 (2) | End of Hundred Years' War |
| 1455 | Invention of printing press |
| 1492 | Columbus encounters America |
| 1492 (2) | Completion of the Reconquista in Spain |
| 1517 | Luther posts 95 Theses |
| 1519 | Cortez conquers Aztecs |
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church |
| 1536 | Calvin establishes reformed faith in Geneva |
| 1543 | Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory |
| 1545 | Council of Trent opens |
| 1555 | Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany |
| 1555 (2) | Charles V abdicates |
| 1588 | Defeat of Spanish Armada |
| 1598 | Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars |
| 1600 | Dutch East India Company founded |
| 1603 | Stuart monarchy begins in England |
| 1648 | Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War |
| 1649 | Charles I executed in England |
| 1687 | Newton publishes Principia Mathematica |
| 1688-1689 | Glorious Revolution |
| 1688-1689 (2) | Peter the Great's reign begins in Russia |
| 1694 | Bank of England founded |
| 1713-1715 | Peace of Utrecht |
| 1713-1715 | Death of Louis XIV |
| 1740 | War of Austrian Succession begins |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War |
| 1776 | American Revolution |
| 1776 (2) | Smith publishes Wealth of Nations |
| 1789 | French Revolution begins |
| 1792 | Wollstonecraft begins feminist movement with Vindication of Rights of Women |
| 1799 | Napoleon comes to power |
| 1815 | Abdication of Napoleon |
| 1815 (2) | Congress of Vienna |
| 1830-1831 | Revolution in France |
| 1830-1831 (2) | Belgian and Greek Independence |
| 1848 | Revolutions of 1848 |
| 1848 | Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto |
| 1851 | Crystal Palace exhibition in Britain |
| 1857 | Britain establishes direct rule of India |
| 1859 | Darwin publishes Origin of the Species |
| 1861 | Italy unified |
| 1861 (2) | Russian serfs emancipation |
| 1871 | Unification of Germany |
| 1871 (2) | Paris Commune and Third Republic in France |
| 1884-1885 | Berlin Conference over imperialism in Africa |
| 1900 | Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams |
| 1905 | Einstein publishes relativity theory |
| 1905 (2) | Revolution of 1905 in Russia |
| 1914 | World War I begins |
| 1917 | Bolshevik Revolution in Russia |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles ends World War I |
| 1922 | Fascists and Mussolini come to power in Italy |
| 1929 | Great Depression begins |
| 1933 | Hitler comes to power in Germany |
| 1938 | Munich Conference - height of appeasement |
| 1939 | World War II begins |
| 1945 | World War II ends |
| 1945 (2) | United Nations founded |
| 1949 | NATO formed |
| 1951 | European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) formed |
| 1953 | Stalin dies |
| 1956 | Khrushchev's de-Stalinization speech |
| 1956 (2) | Hungary revolt |
| 1957 | Treaty of Rome creates European Economic Community (EEC) |
| 1957 (2) | Sputnik launched |
| 1958 | Fifth Republic in France under DeGaulle |
| 1961 | Berlin Wall erected |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1962 (2) | Second Vatican Council begins |
| 1968 | Student Revolts |
| 1968 (2) | Czech "Prague Spring" revolt |
| 1975 | Helsinki Accords - height of detente |
| 1978 | John Paul II elected pope |
| 1979 | Soviet Union invades Afghanistan |
| 1979 (2) | Thatcher elected prime minister in Britain |
| 1980 | Solidarity founded in Poland |
| 1985 | Gorbachev comes to power in Soviet Union |
| 1989 | Berlin Wall falls and collapse of communism |
| 1991 | Break-up of Soviet Union |
| 1991 (2) | Balkan conflicts begin in former Yugoslavia |
| 1992 | Maastricht Treaty creates European Union (EU) |
| 1999 | Euro currency introduced |
| 2001 | Terrorist attacks on the United States |
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