1453

100 Years War Ends;

Constantinople Falls

1492

Columbus's
Discovery;
Reconquista Ends

1517

Martin Luther Posts

his "95 Thesis"

1534

The Act of
Supremacy; Jesuit
Order is Founded

1555

The Peace of
Augsburg

1588

Defeat of the Spanish

Armada; Day of the
Barricades

1598

Edict of Nantes is
Issued by Henry IV

1603

Queen
Elizabeth Dies

1648

Peace of
Westphalia

1685

Edict of Nantes is
revoked by Louis
XIV

1688-1689

The Glorious
Revolution

1713

The Treaty of
Utrecht; Pragmatic
Sanction of Austria

1740

War of Austrian
Succession

1789

The French
Revolution begins

1815

Napoleon's 100
Days; Congress of
Vienna

1832

The great Reform

Bill; Organic Statute

1848

The Year of Failed

Revolutions;
Communist Manifesto