Shepard Dates Quiz II
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105 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1215 | Magna Carta |
| 1378 | Great Schism Begins |
| 1414-1418 | Council of Constance |
| 1419 | Prince Henry founded navigation school |
| 1453 | End of 100 Year's War; Fall of Constantinople to the Turks |
| 1455 | Gutenberg's Bible Published |
| 1469 | Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella |
| 1494 | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| Oct 31, 1517 | 95 Thesis |
| 1519 | Leipzig Debate |
| 1527 | Sack of Rome by Charles V |
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy |
| 1543 | Publication of On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres |
| 1545-1563 | Council of Trent |
| 1555 | Peace of Augsburg |
| 1558 | Death of Mary I of England |
| 1559 | Act of Uniformity |
| 1571 | Battle of Lepanto |
| 1572 | Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada |
| 1594 | Henry IV crowned King of France |
| 1598 | Edict of Nantes |
| 1610 | Publication of The Starry Messenger |
| 1613 | Michael Romanov crowned Tsar of Russia |
| 1618-1648 | 30 Year's War |
| 1628 | Publication of On the Motion of the Heart and Blood |
| 1642-1646 | English Civil War |
| 1648 | Treaty of Westphalia; Independence of the Netherlands |
| 1658 | Death of Cromwell |
| 1661-1715 | "Age of Louis XIV" |
| 1673 | Test Act in England |
| 1684 | Edict of Fontainebleau |
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution |
| 1690 | Publication of Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| 1697-98 | Peter the Great toured Europe |
| 1699 | Treaty of Karlowitz |
| 1701-1721 | Great Northern War |
| 1707 | Creation of Great Britain |
| 1713 | Treaty of Utrecht |
| 1721 | Creation of Holy Synod in Russia |
| 1722 | Peter the Great created Table of Ranks |
| 1740-1748 | War of Austrian Succession |
| 1756-1763 | Seven Year's War |
| 1762 | Publication of The Social Contract |
| 1772 | Partition of Poland |
| 1774 | Treaty of Kuchuck-Kainarji |
| 1776 | American Declaration of Independence |
| 1789 | Tennis Court Oath |
| 1792 | Radical Phase of French Rev. begins |
| 1795 | Establishment of the Directory |
| 1799 | Coup by Napoleon I |
| 1804 | Napoleon crowned himself Emperor |
| 1815 | Battle of Waterloo; Congress of Vienna |
| 1819 | Karlsbad Decrees |
| 1821 | Greek revolt against the Ottomans |
| 1825 | Decembrist Revolt in Russia |
| 1830 | Greece declared independent; July revolution in France |
| 1832 | Reform Act passed in GB |
| 1833 | English Factory Act |
| 1838 | Chartism became organized in GB |
| 1848 | Year of revolutions; 2nd Republic in France established; publication of The Communist Manifesto |
| 1852 | Napoleon III crowned Emperor of France |
| 1853-1856 | Crimean War |
| 1859 | Publication of Origins of Species |
| 1861 | Declaration of Italy as a state; emancipation of serfs in Russia |
| 1864 | Danish War; creation of zemstovs in Russia |
| 1866 | Austro-Prussian War |
| 1867 | Austrian empire becomes A-H; Reform Act in GB |
| 1870-1871 | Franco-Prussian War; Declaration of Germany as a state; Education Act in GB |
| 1871 | 3rd Republic in France declared |
| 1878 | Berlin Conference |
| 1890 | Housing Act in GB |
| 1905 | Russo-Japanese War; Creation of Duma; Bloody Sunday; 1st Moroccan Crisis |
| 1908 | Bosnian Crisis |
| 1914-1919 | WWI |
| March 15, 1917 | Tsar abdicates the throne |
| April 6, 1917 | US enters WWI |
| March 3, 1918 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| June 28, 1919 | Treaty of Versailles |
| 1921 | NEP introduced in Soviet Union |
| 1922 | Mussolini name Prime Minster |
| 1925 | Treaty of Locarno |
| 1925 | Kellogg-Briand pact |
| 1929 | Stock market crash; Lateran Accord |
| 1933 | Hitler named Chancellor; Enabling Act |
| 1929-1939 | Stalin Years in Soviet Union |
| 1936 | Popular Front formed in France |
| 1939-1945 | WWII |
| 1947 | Marshall Plan |
| 1949 | NATO |
| 1950-1953 | Korean War; Stalin died (53) |
| 1957 | Sputnik Launched |
| 1958 | 5th Republic in France |
| 1961 | Berlin Wall built |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1964-1973 | US in Vietnam |
| 1968 | Student Riots in Paris |
| 1973 | Arab-Israeli War |
| 1979 | Margret Thatcher elected as PM of GB |
| 1989 | Fall of Berlin Wall |
| 1994 | Creation of EU |
| 1997 | Election of Tony Blair |
| 1999 | War in Kosovo |
| 1936-1939 | Spanish Civil War |
| 1948 | Proclamation of the creation of Israel |
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