Here's some key dates that might be useful to know for the AP exam.
1348 ~ Black Plague
1378 ~ Great Schism
1381 ~ Peasant Revolts
1453 ~ Fall of Constantinople
1455 ~ Printing Press
1492 ~ Columbus discovered America & sailed to the Bahamas
1517 ~ Tetzel sells indulgences & 95 Theses are posted
1527 ~ Protestant Reformation, Medicis are driven out by Florentines, Sacking of Rome
1529 ~ Seige of Vienna, signing of Treaty of Cambrai
1545 ~ Beginning of Council of Trent
1555 ~ The Peace of Augsburg
1572 ~ St. Bartholamue's Day Massacre
1588 ~ Spanish Armada
1618-1648 ~ 30 Years War
1649 ~ King Charles I is beheaded, beginning of Civil War
1776 ~ The Declaration of Independence was signed
1789 ~ Beginning of the French Revolution, Storming of the Bastille
1795 ~ The First Coalition
1799 ~ Napoleonic Wars begin, End of the French Revolution
1804 ~ Napoleon proclaimed emperor
1812 ~ Battle of Bordino
1815 ~ Napoleon escapes Elba only to be exiled to St. Helena after his defeat at Waterloo, Congress of Vienna
1830 ~ Greece gains independece from Ottoman Empire
1848 ~ Revolutions of 1848, The Communist Manifesto is written
1871 ~ Unification of Italy
