1789 Text Frühe Neuzeit Frankreich
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Assembly proclaims universal rights. The political vocabulary of contemporary Europe flows directly from it.
Der europäische Aufbau begann nicht 1950. Dieser Faden verbindet das antike Erbe, die jüdisch-christliche Matrix und die heutige Union.
17 Ereignisse
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.
1806 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Liechtenstein
The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire leaves Liechtenstein fully sovereign.
1809 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Finnland
Attached to Russia, Finland keeps its Swedish laws and develops its institutions.
1812 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Moldau
Russia takes the eastern half of the principality at the Treaty of Bucharest.
1814 Text Frühe Neuzeit Norwegen
On 17 May Norway adopts one of the most liberal constitutions of its time.
1814 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Schweden
Sweden’s last war. Two centuries of non-alignment begin.
1815 Vertrag Frühe Neuzeit Österreich
Metternich reorganises post-Napoleonic Europe: the continent’s first collective security system.
1815 Institution Frühe Neuzeit Luxemburg Niederlande
The Congress of Vienna makes Luxembourg a sovereign state in personal union with the Netherlands.
1830 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Belgien
The Brussels revolution creates a constitutional kingdom, neutral and guaranteed by the powers.
1830 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Griechenland
Backed by European philhellenism, Greece becomes a state again after four Ottoman centuries.
1835 Text Frühe Neuzeit Finnland
Lönnrot compiles the national epic, the foundation of the Finnish cultural awakening.
1843 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Slowakei
Ľudovít Štúr fixes the literary standard, a precondition of modern nationhood.
1845 Katastrophe Frühe Neuzeit Irland
A million dead, two million exiled: the island’s population has never recovered.
1848 Text Frühe Neuzeit Schweiz
After a brief civil war, Switzerland becomes a federal state with direct democracy.
1848 Ereignis Frühe Neuzeit Slowenien
The springtime of peoples sees the first national political claim formulated.