Pressburg, capital of Hungary

Name: Pressburg, capital of Hungary
Start: 1536

After Mohács, Bratislava becomes capital and coronation city of the Hungarian kingdom.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1536 — the context national timelines leave out.

19 years earlier Luther’s 95 Theses Germany
same year Lutheran Reformation Denmark
same year Calvin in Geneva Switzerland
2 years earlier Act of Supremacy United Kingdom
3 years later School of Salamanca Spain
10 years earlier Disaster of Mohács Hungary
12 years later The New Testament in Finnish Finland
13 years earlier Gustav Vasa Sweden

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.
Reformation and wars of religion 1517 – 1648 Christendom splits and Europe is redrawn.

Countries involved

Slovakia

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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