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European History
Anyone know of a good website and/or book, relating to European History(specifically, from the 1500's to 2000). Preferably one with important dates shown prominenty. 
Or, maybe some of you guys could just post important events off the top of your head.
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August 15, 2003, 11:59
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October 31st, 1517 - Start of the Protestant Reformation
Since you're looking to cram and not to learn, anything I can say won't help you. 
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August 15, 2003, 11:59
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Or, maybe some of you guys could just post important events off the top of your head.
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In this forum, that's the most likely. You'll have to figure out the order for yourself. 
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August 15, 2003, 11:59
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European history, eh? Western Europe? Central? Eastern? All of it?
That's not a small category.
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August 15, 2003, 11:59
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This is a wide topic, and it isn't exactly easy to know where to begin with. Maybe you should be more specific, and cut your question into a few sub questions ? (such as "what were the important events druing the renaissance ?" "What were the important events during the enlightenment ?" etc etc.)
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August 15, 2003, 12:01
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August 15, 2003, 12:02
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That's a bloody big area to cover given the amount of changes that happened...
http://www.friesian.com/philhist.htm is good, covers not just Europe and does pretty much all time periods...complicated to understand though.
http://homepages.tesco.net/~plk33/pl...storyFiles.htm has timeline things for each country.
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August 15, 2003, 12:08
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1302 AD the most important one I guess. The Day we kicked some serious French butt.
Not a unique thing to do, I know, but it is for us (annyones for that matter  )
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August 15, 2003, 12:09
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Okay, off the top of my head, with some date confirmation via Google:
1588 - Spanish Armada fails spectacularly in an attemped Spanish invasion of England. Drake overheard thanking God for the weather.
1618-1648 - "Thirty Years War." Tough to explain in a small blurb. Pretty much everybody in Central Europe fought everybody else, on and off, for 30 years.
1639-1651 - English Civil War(s). Nasty stuff. King versus Parliament (led by Cromwell). Parliament wins, but Cromwell was such a bastard they eventually brought a King back.
1707 - Act of Union. Scotland & England become the United Kingdom (James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England).
1789 - French Revolution
Just a few tidbits that came to mind... but there is an awful lot more to it.
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August 15, 2003, 12:11
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Everyone has to have their turn to whoop some French ass. Some get fewer turns than others. 
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Perhaps you should have paid attention in class.
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August 15, 2003, 12:31
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class? there's such thing as European history class?
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August 15, 2003, 12:32
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Erm...how about:
June 6th 1944: Allied forces under the command of U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower invades German occupied France.
How's that for important??
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August 15, 2003, 12:43
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Insignificant.
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August 15, 2003, 12:45
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Type in European History time line into google and see what you get.
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August 15, 2003, 13:01
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July 11 and 14, 1789
French Revolution
December 2, 1805
Battle of Austerlitz
June 18, 1815
Battle of Waterloo
October 5, 1854
Start of Crimean War
Sometime in 1856
End of Crimean War
A bunch of colonial wars, none of them on European territory
August 1-5, 1914
Start of WWI for major Euro powers
November 11, 1918
End of WWI
September 3, 1939
Beginning of general hostilities in WWII
May 7, 1945
End of European war
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August 15, 2003, 13:14
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some of my favorites
1763 - seven years war ends
1848 - Revolutions, mainly unsuccesful (but nonetheless important) in most of continental Europe
1863 - Russian serfs emancipated
1948 - Formation of NATO
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August 15, 2003, 13:32
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1707 - Act of Union. Scotland & England become the United Kingdom (James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England).
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amazing... he became King James I of England nearly a century after he died!
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August 15, 2003, 13:46
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Hmm, must've screwed up my James' or something like that.
A pretty important one not yet mentioned: 1917 - Russian revolutions. The second one brings us those fun guys, the Bolsheviks, and the birth of the Soviet Union.
-Arrian
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August 15, 2003, 13:53
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Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Sometime in 1856
End of Crimean War
A bunch of colonial wars, none of them on European territory
August 1-5, 1914
Start of WWI for major Euro powers
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Ah yes, Germany's colonial war of 1870/71. 
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Hmm, ok, muffed that one pretty bad, did I. The Act of Union was indeed in 1707, but had nothing to do with James. That's going to irritate me for a bit.
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August 15, 2003, 14:09
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Originally posted by Arrian
Hmm, must've screwed up my James' or something like that.
A pretty important one not yet mentioned: 1917 - Russian revolutions. The second one brings us those fun guys, the Bolsheviks, and the birth of the Soviet Union.
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That's not your problem. The problem is that the Act of Union was not signed when the crowns were united for the first time (which was indeed under James VI/I)
The Act of Union was 100 years later to ensure that the crowns would never be separated (as there was a danger of due to the Hanoverian succession and Scottish preference for the Stuart line)
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August 15, 2003, 14:10
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Originally posted by HershOstropoler
Ah yes, Germany's colonial war of 1870/71.
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Damn Kraut. You would be the one to point that out...
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August 15, 2003, 14:13
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Ah, thanks KH.
There is a gap in my (European) Historical knowledge running from the middle ages to about WWI.
As my father once put it "I lost interest 'round about 1485."
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0 - Jesus borns
1939 - winter war
2010 - Pekka takes over the world
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August 15, 2003, 14:19
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Nothing important happened in European history.
On the other hand, a LOT of important things happened in world history after 1776.
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August 15, 2003, 14:21
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Originally posted by Arrian
Ah, thanks KH.
There is a gap in my (European) Historical knowledge running from the middle ages to about WWI.
As my father once put it "I lost interest 'round about 1485."
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What an odd place to put a gap in knowledge. It's where I know the most (admittedly not that much, but still)
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August 15, 2003, 14:27
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Actually he's only a pseudo-kraut since he's not from Germany (He's Austrian). But he's a lawyer so that makes him worse then 90% of the krauts out there.
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Actually he's only a pseudo-kraut since he's not from Germany (He's Austrian). But he's a lawyer so that makes him worse then 90% of the krauts out there.
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A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut.
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August 15, 2003, 14:33
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Here's something I still don't get:
Why do we call 1914-1918 World War I, when the Seven Years War was effectively fought all over the world? Eg., North America, Carribean, Europe, Egypt (?), India. Doesn't that pretty much cover it?
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