European History

[KrazyHorse]

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

[lord of the mark]

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

[Al B. Sure!]

1707 - Act of Union. Scotland & England become the United Kingdom (James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England).

amazing... he became King James I of England nearly a century after he died!

[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.

-Arrian

[HershOstropoler]

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

Ah yes, Germany's colonial war of 1870/71.

[Arrian]

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.

-Arrian

[KrazyHorse]

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.

-Arrian

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)

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by HershOstropoler


Ah yes, Germany's colonial war of 1870/71.

Damn Kraut. You would be the one to point that out...

[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."

-Arrian

[Pekka]

0 - Jesus borns

1939 - winter war

2010 - Pekka takes over the world

That's the alpha and the omega, all you need right there.

[MrFun]

Nothing important happened in European history.

On the other hand, a LOT of important things happened in world history after 1776.

[KrazyHorse]

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."

-Arrian

What an odd place to put a gap in knowledge. It's where I know the most (admittedly not that much, but still)

[Dinner]

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.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oerdin
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.

A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut.

[Adam Smith]

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?