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1348-1351 Black Death

1337-1453 Hundred Years War

1378-1417 Great Schism

1440 Lorenzo Valla disproves Donation of Constantine

1485 End of War of Roses

1492 Columbus sails to Americas; Grenada falls to Spain ;Moors are driven from Spain (Ferdinand and Isabella)

1509 Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly

1513 Machiavelli’s The Prince

1517 95 Theses (Tip: 1+1+7=9, with 5— 95 Theses)

1527 Sack of Rome, crucial imperial victory by HRE against France and Italian States

1543 Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres; Vesalius’s Structure of the Human Body

1545-1563 Council of Trent

1555 Peace of Augsburg (cuius regio, eius religio)

1572 Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

1584-1589 War of Three Henrys (Henry III, Henry IV/Navarre, Henry of Guise)

1588 British defeat Spanish Armada

1598 Henry IV issues Edict of Nantes

1600 Chartering of British East India Company

1604-1613 Time of Troubles, period of instability and foreign invasion in Russia, caused by Ivan the Terrible killing his heir

1613 Michael Romanov elected tsar of Russia, establishes Romanov dynasty, and ends the Time of Troubles

1618 Defenestration of Prague (angels/dung heap)

1618-1648 Thirty Years War (Bohemian, Danish, Swedish, French)

1642-1649 English Civil War

1648 Peace of Westphalia (Acknowledged Calvinists; HRE and Spain in decline, rise of France, Sweden, Prussia and Dutch)

1651 Hobbes’s Leviathan

1653-58 Protectorate in England

1687 Newton’s Principia (Universal Laws)

1688-89 Glorious Revolution and joint rule of William and Mary; English Bill of Rights; Locke’s Second Treatise on Government (Inalienable Rights—life, liberty, equality and property)

1701-1714 War of Spanish Succession

1714 Peace of Utrecht, end of Spanish Succession; Succession of Hanover dynasty in Great Britain

1721 Russia gains significant territory in the Baltic and Peter the Great builds St. Petersburg

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