Renaissance poes, 1447-1521
French invade Italy, 1494
Henry VIII of England, 1509-1547
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1519-1546
Troops of Charles V sack Rome, 1527
Sapnish gain Supremacy in Italy, 1529
Philip II of Spain, 1556-1598
Elizabeth I of England, 1558-1603
Revolt of the Netherland, 1566-1609
Defeat of Spanish Armada, 1588
Henry IV of France, 1589-1610
Edict of Nantes, 1598
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Supremacy of Richelieu in France, 1624-1642
English Civil War, 1642-1649
Fronde revolts in France, 1648-1653
Commonwealth and Protectorate in England, 1649-1660
Frederic William, Elector of Brandenburg, 1640-1688
Louis XIV of France, 1643-1715
Leopoid I, Habsburg emperor, 1658-1705
Restoration of Stuart dynasty in England, 1660
Charles II of England, 1660-1685
Peter the Great of Russia, 1682-1725
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685
James II of England, 1685-1688
"Glorious" revolution in England, 1688
War of the League of Augsburg, 1688-1697
John Locke, Two Treaties of Government,1690
War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1714
Jacques Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture, 1708
Treaty of Utrecht, 1713
Frederick William I of Prussia, 1713-1740
Louis XV of France, 1715-1774
Ascendency of Robert Walpole as Britain's "first minister," 1720-1743
Frederick the Great of Prussia, 1740-1786
Maria Theresa of Austria, 1740-1780
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
George III of Britain, 1760-1820
Catherine the Great of Russia, 1762-1796
Louis XVI of France, 1774-1792
War of American Independence, 1776-1783
Joseph II of Austria, 1780-1790
Beginning of the French Revolution, 1789
American War of Independence, 1775-1783
French Revolution begins, 1789
France declared a republic, 1792
Declaration of Pillnitz, 1792
Reign of Terror, 1793-1794
Treaty of Campo Formio, 1797
Napoleon, first consul of France, 1799
Treaty of Luneville, 1801
Napoleon declared first consul for life, 1802
Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French, 1804
Continental System established, 1806
Reforms of Hadenberg and Stein, Prussia, 1808
Napoleon's invasion of Russia, 1812
Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815
Battle of Waterloo, 1815