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73 Cards in this Set
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1348 |
The Black Plague Hits Europe |
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1337-1453 |
The Hundred Years War |
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1453 |
Turks take Constantinople. End of 100 Years War. France Wins. |
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1455 |
Bible Print |
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1469 |
Ferdinand and Isabella marry and begin unification of Spain |
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1485 |
War of the Roses Ends. Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII |
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1492 |
Columbus sailed the ocean blue |
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1517 |
Luther's 95 Theses Beginning of the Protestant Reformation |
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1519 |
1519 - Charles V becomes HRE. Europe scared of Hapsburg hegemony (dominance) (Period of Hapsburg supremacy lasts from 1519-1656) |
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1521 |
Diet of Worms |
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1527 |
Rome sacked by HRE. Machiavelli dies. End of the Renaissance |
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1529 |
Siege of Vienna by the Turks. A close call for Christian Europe |
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1545 |
Council of Trent starts the Catholic Reformation |
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1555 |
Religious Peace of Augsburg Religion of the prince is religion of the people |
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1556 |
Charles V abdicates as HRE, goes to live in a monastery |
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1568-1578 |
10 Year Civil War in The Netherlands |
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1572 |
Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
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1584-1589 |
War of Three Henry's |
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1588 |
Defeat of the Spanish Armada Henry IV becomes first Bourbon king of France |
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1598 |
Edict of Nantes |
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1618-1648 |
Thirty Years War Last of the Religious wars. Leaves Germany in shambles. France is the strongest country in Europe. Richelieu, working for Louis XIII, demonstrates the workings of the Balance of Power. Ends in Peace of Westphalia |
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1642-1648 |
English Civil War Oliver Cromwell takes control |
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1643-1715 |
Louis XIV, the Sun King, rules with the help of Mazarin |
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1660 |
Restoration of the Stuarts in England |
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1688 |
Glorious Revolution |
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1701-1714 |
War of Spanish Succession ends in Peace of Utrecht, which creates the Kingdom of Prussia. France severely weakened; England emerges as strongest European |
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1720 |
Bubbles burst in England and France |
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1740 |
Frederick II The Great reign (Prussia) |
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1740-1748 |
War of Austrian Succession Frederick II seizes Silesia, even though Maria Theresa of Austria gets to keep her throne |
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1756-1763 |
Seven Years War Ends in Peace of Paris |
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1772 |
First Partition of Poland |
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1776 |
American Revolution begins and Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations |
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1789-1799 |
French Revolution Ends with coup' de tat of Directory and Napoleon takes over |
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1804 |
Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor (1799-1815) Napoleonic Era |
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1806 |
Rip HRE |
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1815 |
Congress of Vienna restructures Europe after Napoleonic Wars |
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1830 |
July Revolution removes Bourbons from France and replaces them with Louis Philippe, Orleans family. Nationalist Uprisings of 1830. |
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1832 |
First English Reform Bill |
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1846 |
Corn Laws repealed in England |
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1848 |
1) Lots of European revolutions. Metternich flees to England. 2) Louis Philippe ousted, replaced by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte beginning of Second Republic. 3) Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto. |
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1852-1870 |
French Second Empire |
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1854-1856 |
Crimean War |
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1859 |
Darwin's Origin of Species |
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1861 |
1) Alexander II frees the serfs in Russia 2) Italian unification completed, except for Rome |
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1867 |
Formation of the Dual Monarchy Seven Weeks War |
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1870 |
Franco-Prussian War German unification completed Start of the Third French Republic |
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1878 |
Berlin Congress settles problems between Russia and Ottoman Empire |
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1885 |
Berlin Conference European Powers carve up Africa |
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1890 |
Bismarck fired by Kaiser William II |
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1894-1906 |
Dreyfus Case |
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1899-1902 |
Boer War |
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1904-1905 |
Russo-Japanese War |
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1905 |
Russian Revolution of 1905 |
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1912-1913 |
First and Second Balkan Wars |
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1914-1918 |
World War I |
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1917 |
Russian Revolution, Civil war continues until 1920 Balfour Declaration |
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1922 |
Mussolini takes over Italy |
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1929 |
The Great Depression |
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1933 |
Hitler appointed German Chancellor |
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1935 |
Nuremberg Laws |
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1936 |
Spanish Civil War |
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1939 |
World War Two begins |
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December 7, 1941 |
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor US enters war |
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June 6, 1944 |
D-Day |
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1945 |
FDR dies. WWII ends. Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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1947 |
Marshall Plan India and Pakistan gain independence |
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1948 |
Israel created. Apartheid instituted in South Africa |
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1949 |
Communist Chinese win civil war NATO organized |
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1950-1953 |
Korean War |
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1954 |
Defeat at Dien Bien Phu leads to French departure from Vietnam US enters |
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1961 |
Berlin Wall Built |
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1989 |
End of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe |
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1991 |
Dissolutoin of the Soviet Union and Treaty of Maastricht |
