Ap History: All Of Dates On Timeline

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Renaissance began in cities of northern Italy

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c. 1350

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Columbus began European exploration of the "New World"

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1492

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Luther began the Protestant Reformation

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1517

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High Renaissance at its peak in Italy

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c. 1520

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Power shifted from Mediterranean to Atlantic countries

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c. 1550

Front 6

England defeated Philip II's Spanish Armada

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1588

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Galileo and other astronomers challenged geocentric worldview

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c. 1600

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English Civil War: Cromwell's Puritans defeated the Stuarts

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1640's

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Treaty of Westphalia ended the 30 Years' War

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1648

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Scientific Revolution: Newton and Locke found "natural laws"

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1687

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Glorious Revolution created England's constitutional monarchy

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1688-89

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Enlightenment "philosophies" spread modern ideas

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1650-1750

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Absolute monarchy symbolized by Louis XIV at Versailles

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c. 1690

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Power shifted to England after the treaty of Utrecht

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1713

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Frederick the Great attacked Austria

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1740

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French Revolution began with the attack on the Bastille

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1789

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Robespierre led the Reign of Terror in France

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1792

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Congress of Vienna followed the defeat of Napoleon

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1815

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Industrial Revolution began in England

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1750-1850

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Karl Marx argued for socialism as revolutions swept Europe

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1848

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Czar Alexander II freed the Russian serfs

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1861

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Nationalism: Italy and Germany unified into modern nations

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1860's

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British Empire dominated the age of imperialism

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1870-1914

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Czar Nicholas II forced to set up the Duma

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1905

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World War I: the old monarchies swept away

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1914-1918

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Russian Revolution won by Lenin's Bolsheviks

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1917

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Treaty of Versailles ended WWI and helped cause WWII

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1919

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Great Depression weakened democracies and promoted dictators

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1930's

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World War II destroyed Europe and let Russia expand

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1939-45

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Cold War: U.S and Russia struggled to dominate world power

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1946-1990

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Prague Spring: Czech effort to throw off communism crushed

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1968

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Solidarity in Poland overthrew communism

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1989

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Maastricht Treaty created European Union

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1991