48 Important Dates for AP European History

AP Euro Dates to Remember

There will never be a question on the AP® European History exam that specifically requires you to remember a date. However, you do need to know the timeline of events to place cause and effect. Plus, you can earn evidence points for knowing dates. The following are the most important dates to remember:

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Period 1 Dates: Renaissance, Reformation, & Exploration (1491-1648)

1348-1351 - The Black Death

1453 - End of the Hundred Years’ War

1455 - Printing Press invented

1492 - Columbus to New World

1517 - Protestant Reformation begins

1555 - Peace of Augsburg

1588 - Defeat of Spanish Armada

1598 - Edict of Nantes

1600 - Dutch East India Company founded

1618 - Defenestration of Prague

1643-1715 - Reign of Louis XIV in France

1648 - Treaty of Westphalia

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Period 2 Dates: Absolutism, Enlightenment, & Revolution (1648-1815)

1651 - Hobbes’ Leviathan published

1687 - Newton publishes Principia Mathematica

1688 - Glorious Revolution

1688 - English Bill of Rights

1689 - Locke publishes Two Treatises on Government

1763 - Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years’ War

1776 - American Revolutionary War begins

1776 - Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations

1789-1799 - French Revolution

1799 - Napoleon comes to power

1815 - Congress of Vienna / Age of Metternich 

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Period 3 Dates: Industrialization, Nationalism, & Imperialism (1815-1914)

1830 - Revolutions in France, Belgium, & Greece

1848 - Liberal Revolutions

1848 - Marx & Engel publish Communist Manifesto

1861 - Unification of Italy

1861 - Emancipation of Serfs in Russia

1871 - Unification of Germany

1884 - Berlin Conference (Scramble for Africa)

1900 - Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams

1905 - Russian Revolution

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Period 4 Dates: Total War, Cold War, & Realignment  (1914-Present)

1914-1918 - World War I

1917 - Russian Revolution

1918 - Treaty of Versailles ends WWI

1929 - Stock market crashes, Great Depression begins

1939-1945 - World War II in Europe

1945 - UN established

1949 - NATO formed

1957 - Sputnik launched

1961 - Berlin Wall built

1962 - Second Vatican Council

1968 - Prague Spring

1989 - Collapse of Berlin Wall

1991 - Breakup of Soviet Union

1992 - Maastricht Treaty created European Union

1999 - European currency introduced (the Euro)

2000 - Putin elected President of Russia

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