1710 Text Frühe Neuzeit Ukraine
Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk
The Cossack text separates powers and limits the hetman: one of Europe’s oldest.
Der europäische Aufbau begann nicht 1950. Dieser Faden verbindet das antike Erbe, die jüdisch-christliche Matrix und die heutige Union.
8 Ereignisse
1710 Text Frühe Neuzeit Ukraine
The Cossack text separates powers and limits the hetman: one of Europe’s oldest.
1719 Institution Frühe Neuzeit Liechtenstein
Emperor Charles VI raises the two lordships into an imperial principality.
1739 Text Frühe Neuzeit Estland
The complete translation fixes the literary language and accelerates rural literacy.
1755 Katastrophe Frühe Neuzeit Portugal
The disaster inspires Voltaire and Kant: the problem of evil becomes central to the Enlightenment.
1766 Text Frühe Neuzeit Schweden
Sweden adopts the world’s first law guaranteeing public access to official documents.
1789 Text Frühe Neuzeit Frankreich
The Assembly proclaims universal rights. The political vocabulary of contemporary Europe flows directly from it.
1791 Text Frühe Neuzeit Polen
Europe’s first written constitution, adopted shortly before the country’s third partition.
1804 Text Frühe Neuzeit Frankreich
Napoleon commissions a synthesis of Roman and customary law, exported from Spain to Poland.