Timeline of Absolutism
Spain and France 1555- Peace at Augsburg 1588- Spanish Armada Defeated 1643-1715 - Louis XIV rules Europe 1661- Palace of Versailles Constructed
Thirty Years War and Central Europe 1618-1648- Thirty Years War 1648- Peace of Westphalia 1740- Maria Theresa takes throne in Austria 1740- Frederick the Great takes power in Prussia 1756-1763- Seven Years War
Russia 1533-1581- Ivan the Terrible in power 1696- Peter the Great and Romanov family takes control 1703- St. Petersburg Constructed
English Civil War 1642- English Civil War Begins 1649- Charles I killed, Oliver Cromwell takes power 1685- James II takes power, absolutism returns. 1688- William and Mary take power, Glorious Revolution 1689- English Bill of Rights passed