| A | B |
|---|
| 1450 | Movable Printing Press |
| 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople |
| 1485 | Henry VII (Tudors) becomes first Tudor king of England |
| 1492 | Expulsion of the Jews from Spain |
| 1512 | Lateran Council; start of Reformation |
| 1517 | Luther's 95 Thesis |
| 1519 | Luther debates Eck |
| 1519 | da Vinci dies |
| 1519-1556 | Charles V HRE |
| 1519-1522 | Magellan circumnavigates globe |
| 1521 | Diet of Wroms |
| 1524-1525 | Peasant's Revolt in Germany |
| 1527 | Imperial sack of Rome |
| 1532-34 | Henri VIII breaks with Rome |
| 1534 | Act of supremacy |
| 1535 | Thomas More beheaded |
| 1536 | Pilgrimage of Grace |
| 1541 | Calvin establishes theocracy in Geneva |
| 1550-1725 | Baroque Movement |
| 1555 | Peace of Augsburg |
| 1556-1598 | Philip II of Spain |
| 1563 | End of Council of Trent; end of Reofrmatoin |
| 1564-1642 | Galileo |
| 1566-1609 | Revolt in Netherlands |
| 1572 | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
| 1588 | Defeat of Spanish armada |
| 1598 | edict of nantes |
| 1598-1613 | Time of Troubles in Russia |
| 1603 | Death of Elizabeth I; end of Northern Renaissance |
| 1618-1648 | Thirty Years' War |
| 1625-1649 | Reign of Charles I in England |
| 1642-1649 | English Civil War |
| 1643-1715 | Louis XIV |
| 1648-1653 | The Fronde in France |
| 1651 | Navigation Acts |
| 1658 | Cromwell died |
| 1660 | restoration of the English monarchy |
| 1665 | plague hits London |
| 1666 | great fire of london |
| 1673 | Test act in England |
| 1685 | Revocation of the Edict of Nantes |
| 1688-89 | Glorious Revolution |
| 1687 | Newton; Principia |
| 1689 | Montesquieu born; start of Enlightenment |
| 1690 | Locke, Second Treaties on Civil Government |
| 1701 | Tull invents the seed drill- start of Agricultural revolution |
| 1701-1713 | War of Spanish SUccession |
| 1701 | Foundation of saint petersburg |
| 1707 | act of union with scotland |
| 1712 | savery and newcomen steam pump |
| 1713 | peace of utrect |
| 1715-1774 | Reign of Louis XV in France |
| 1774-1792 | Reign of Louis XVI of France |
| 1733 | Kay's flying shuttle |
| 1740-1748 | War of Austrian Sucession |
| 1748 | Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle; end war of austrian succession |
| 1740-1786 | Reign of Maria Theresa of Austria |
| 1751-1765 | Publication of the Encyclopedia by Diderot and d'Alembert |
| 1756-63 | Seven Years War (French and Indian War) |
| 1762-96 | Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia |
| 1765 | Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny |
| 1765 | Richard Arkwright invents the water frame |
| 1776 | wealth of nations, smith |
| 1789 | start of French Revolution |
| 1790-1850 | Romantic movement |
| 1799-1814 | Napoleonic era |
| 1814-15 | Congress of Vienna |
| 1819 | Battle of Peterloo |
| 1825 | First Railroad in britain |
| 1830-40s | Height of French Utopian socialism |
| 1832 | Reform Bill |
| 1834 | Poor Law reform |
| 1839 | German Zolverein founded |
| 1848 | Marx, Communist Manifesto |
| 1852-1870 | Second Empire in France |
| 1853-56 | Crimean War |
| 1859 | Darwin, Origin of Species |
| 1862-1890 | Bismarck in power |
| 1864-71 | unification of germany |
| 1864 | Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Error |
| 1867 | Second Reform Bill |
| 1869 | Suez Canal opens |
| 1870-1940 | Third Republic in France |
| 1878 | Congress of Berlin |
| 1880-1914 | Scramble for Africa |
| 1898 | Fashoda crisis |
| 1894-1899 | Dreyfus case |
| 1902 | Kruger telegram |
| 1899-1902 | Boer War |
| 1899 | Kipling, White Man's Burden |
| 1904 | Entente Cordiale (England and France) |
| 1907 | Anglo-Russian Treaty |
| 1914 | WWI |
| 1916 | Easter Rising, Dublin |
| 1925 | Locarno Pact |
| 1939 | WWII |
| 1956 | suez crisis |
| 1957 | treaty of rome created european economic community |
| 1972 | bloody sunday in northern ireland |
