Essential Dates to Know in Modern European History

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The Bubonic Plague arrives in Italy	1347
End of the Hundred Years War; Constantinople falls to Ottomans	1453
The Moors and Jew are expelled from Spain; Columbus sails to the Americas	1492
Martin Luther posts his Ninety Five Theses in Wittenberg	1517
The Sack of Rome ends the Renaissance	1527
Act of Supremacy establishes the Church of England	1534
Peace of Augsburg allows Lutheranism in Holy Roman Empire	1555
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre begins French Wars of Religion	1572
The Spanish Armada is defeated	1588
Edict of Nantes end the French Wars of Religion	1598
Death of Elizabeth I	1603
English Civil War begins	1642
The Thirty Years War ends with the Treaty of Westphalia	1648
Ottoman Turks reach high water mark in Vienna	1683
Newton Publishes Principia Mathematica	1687
Glorious Revolution in England	1688
Peace of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession	1713
Death of Louis XIV	1715
Death of Peter the Great	1725
The French Revolution begins	1789
Death of Catherine the Great	1796
The Congress of Vienna is established	1815
Revolutions erupt across Europe; Communist Manifesto published	1848
The Crimean War Ends the Concert of Europe	1853
Austria-Hungary is formed with the Ausgleich	1867
The German Empire is proclaimed	1871
World War I begins	1914
Russian Revolution begins	1917
World War I ends	1918
THe Great Depression begins	1929
World War II begins	1939
World War II ends	1945
Death of Stalin	1953
The Berlin Wall goes up	1961
The Berlin Wall comes down	1989
The USSR collapses	1991

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