• Early Europe
• Celtic Europe
• Germanic Migrations

• Germanic Christianity
• Christian Civilization
• The Age of Reform

The Center Period

• Voyages of Exploration
• The Rise of States
• The Enlightenment
• The Age of Nation-States

The Global Period

• Age of World Wars
• After the Cold War

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National Chronologies

Spain	England
France	The Holy Roman Empire

The Age of the Hapsburgs: 1519-1588 1519-1556: Charles V 1556-1598: The reign of Philip II 1568: The Revolt of the Netherlands Begins 1588: Defeat of the Spanish Armada The Age of Absolute Monarchies: 1598-1689 1509-1547: Henry VIII 1598: Edict of Nantes 1643-1715: Louis XIV 1649-1660: The Puritan Republic 1688: The Glorious Revolution The Scientific Revolution: 1543-1688 1543: Nicolas Copernicus publishes de Revolutionibus 1600: William Gilbert publishes Concerning the Magnet 1628: William Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood 1632: Galileo: Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1662: The Royal Society is founded. 1687: Newton's Principia mathematica The Age of Enlightened Despotism: 1689-1815 Peter the Great of Russia: 1672-1725; r. 1682-1725 Catherine the Great of Russia: 1729-96; r. 1762-1796 Frederick the Great of Prussia: 1712-86; r. 1740-86 Joseph II of Austria: 1741-90; r. 1765-90 Napoleon I of France: 1769-1821; r. 1799-1815 1688-1789: Enlightenment 1690: Locke's Second Treatise 1748: Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws 1762: Rousseau's The Social Contract 1782: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Conflict Among the Great Powers: 1713-1789 1713: Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of the Spanish Succession 1740-1748: The War of the Austrian Succession 1756-1763: The Seven Years War

Resources Primary Sources Machiavelli: The Prince DeFoe: The English Tradesman Mun: England's Treasure by Foreign Trade Secondary Sources

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