1878 Event

Independence of Serbia recognised

Name: Independence of Serbia recognised
Start: 1878

The Congress of Berlin confirms Serbian sovereignty after four Ottoman centuries.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1878 — the context national timelines leave out.

15 years earlier Founding of the Red Cross Switzerland
same year Treaty of Berlin Bulgaria
same year Independence of Montenegro recognised Montenegro
5 years earlier First song festival Latvia
7 years earlier Proclamation of the German Empire Germany
11 years earlier Austro-Hungarian Compromise Hungary
11 years earlier Treaty of London Luxembourg
14 years earlier Ban on the Lithuanian press Lithuania

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Concert of Europe 1815 – 1914 A century without general war, and the empires preparing one.

Countries involved

Serbia

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What was written of it

The powers of Europe are so bound to one another that they form an indissoluble system, in which none can be shaken without shaking the rest. All trade enough with one another to be unable to do without one another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1761

Abstract of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace

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