1864 Event

Ban on the Lithuanian press

Name: Ban on the Lithuanian press
Start: 1864

Forty years of book smuggling keep the language alive.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1864 — the context national timelines leave out.

1 year earlier Founding of the Red Cross Switzerland
16 years earlier Federal Constitution Switzerland
19 years earlier The Great Famine Ireland
3 years earlier Italian unification Italy
3 years later Treaty of London Luxembourg
3 years later Austro-Hungarian Compromise Hungary
3 years earlier Franco-Monegasque treaty Monaco
5 years earlier Union of the principalities Romania

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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

Lithuania

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What was written of it

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.

Déclaration du 9 mai 1950 1950

Schuman Declaration, Salon de l’Horloge, Paris