1517
95 Theses
1555
Peace of Augsburg
1588
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1603
Elizabeth I of England died
1618
Beginning of the 30 Years' War
1649
Cromwell came to power in England
1660
The Restoration in England
1688
Glorious Revolution in England
1713
Pragmatic Sanction in Austria
1715
Louis XIV of France died
1776
Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations
1789
French Revolution began
1795
Final partition of Poland
1799
Napoleon came to power in France
1804
Napoleon became emperor
1815
Napoleon exiled, Congress of Vienna
1848
Revolutions of 1848, Marx/Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto
1861
Unification of Italy, Tsar Alexander II of Russia freed the serfs
1871
Unification of Germany
1914
Beginning of WWI
1917
Russian Revolution
1918
End of WWI
1939
Beginning of WWII
1945
End of WWII
1961
Berlin Wall was built
1989
Fall of the Soviet bloc
1991
Fall of the Soviet Union