Region

Europe

From the fall of Constantinople to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

16 published entries touch Europe. Fold entries count in both of their regions.

15th century

1 entries

1453The Fall of ConstantinopleSingleEurope · 6 April – 29 May 1453

16th century

2 entries

1517Luther's Ninety-five ThesesSingleEurope · 31 October 1517 1588The Defeat of the Spanish ArmadaSingleEurope · May – September 1588

17th century

2 entries

1648The Peace of WestphaliaSingleEurope · 1644 – 24 October 1648 1687Newton's PrincipiaSingleEurope · 1684 – 5 July 1687

18th century

2 entries

1789The French Revolution BeginsSingleEurope · May – August 1789 1793Two Embassies, One Autumn: Macartney in Beijing and the First CoalitionFoldEurope / Asia · September 1793

19th century

5 entries

18041804: Haitian Independence and the Code CivilFoldThe Americas / Europe · 1791 – 1 January 1804 1815Waterloo and the Congress of ViennaSingleEurope · September 1814 – November 1815 1848The Revolutions of 1848SingleEurope · January – October 1848 18531853: Perry in Edo Bay and the Crimean WarFoldAsia / Europe · 8 July 1853 – 31 March 1854 1863Two Emancipations: 1861 and 1863FoldThe Americas / Europe · 22 September 1862 – 1865

20th century

4 entries

1905Two Empires in Manchuria: 1905FoldAsia / Europe · 1904 – September 1905 1914The July Crisis and the Outbreak of 1914SingleEurope · 28 June – 4 August 1914 1919The Same Spring: Versailles and the May Fourth MovementFoldEurope / Asia · 18 January 1919 – 21 January 1920 1989The Fall of the Berlin WallSingleEurope · 9 November 1989

Other regions

Asia

Yamen, Sekigahara, the opium trade, the Meiji restoration and after.

The Americas

Landfall in 1492, the colonial order, and the republics that replaced it.

Africa

Partition, the one army that was not defeated, and the year of independence.

Published through 20th century