387 v. Chr. Institution Antike Griechenland
Plato’s Academy
The West’s first philosophical institution; Aristotle studies there for twenty years before founding the Lyceum.
Der europäische Aufbau begann nicht 1950. Dieser Faden verbindet das antike Erbe, die jüdisch-christliche Matrix und die heutige Union.
23 Ereignisse
387 v. Chr. Institution Antike Griechenland
The West’s first philosophical institution; Aristotle studies there for twenty years before founding the Lyceum.
14 Institution Antike Slowenien
The Roman colony, on the site of Ljubljana, guards the road from Italy to the Danube.
301 Institution Christianisierung San Marino
Marinus, a Dalmatian stonecutter, establishes a Christian community on Mount Titano.
330 Institution Christianisierung Griechenland
Constantine moves the imperial capital. A thousand years of Greek-speaking Christian empire begin.
886 Institution Christianisierung Nordmazedonien
Clement and Naum train thousands of clerics there and spread Slavic writing.
930 Institution Mittelalter Island
At Þingvellir the world’s oldest still-functioning parliament is born.
963 Institution Mittelalter Luxemburg
Siegfried acquires a rock on the Alzette: the castle will give the country its name.
1085 Institution Mittelalter Spanien
The reconquered city becomes the workshop where the West recovers Greek science via Arabic and Hebrew.
1088 Institution Mittelalter Italien
Europe’s oldest university is born around the study of the Digest: Roman law becomes a living science again.
1201 Institution Christianisierung Lettland
Bishop Albert establishes a mission city that will become the metropolis of the eastern Baltic.
1219 Institution Christianisierung Estland
The Danish crusade establishes a fortress; the town will join the Hanse.
1290 Institution Mittelalter Portugal
Founded by King Dinis, it transmits canon and Roman law to the whole Lusophone world.
1348 Institution Mittelalter Tschechien
Charles IV founds Central Europe’s first university and makes Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
1364 Institution Mittelalter Polen
Casimir the Great founds one of Central Europe’s oldest universities; Copernicus will study there.
1539 Institution Renaissance und Reformationen Spanien
Francisco de Vitoria founds modern international law by questioning the legitimacy of conquest.
1579 Institution Renaissance und Reformationen Litauen
A Jesuit foundation, it becomes the intellectual hearth of the grand duchy.
1602 Institution Frühe Neuzeit Niederlande
The East India Company and the Amsterdam Exchange invent financial capitalism.
1632 Institution Frühe Neuzeit Estland
Gustavus Adolphus founds the university that will train the Baltic’s scholarly elite.
1719 Institution Frühe Neuzeit Liechtenstein
Emperor Charles VI raises the two lordships into an imperial principality.
1815 Institution Frühe Neuzeit Luxemburg Niederlande
The Congress of Vienna makes Luxembourg a sovereign state in personal union with the Netherlands.
1863 Institution Frühe Neuzeit Schweiz
Henry Dunant creates in Geneva the institution that will give birth to humanitarian law.
1923 Institution Zeitgeschichte Türkei
Mustafa Kemal launches rapid Westernisation: Latin alphabet, Swiss civil code, secularism.
1949 Institution Europäischer Aufbau
Ten states found in London the first European political organisation, matrix of the Convention on Human Rights.