1944 Event

Proclamation of the Republic in Iceland

Name: Proclamation of the Republic in Iceland
Start: 1944

On 17 June, at Þingvellir, Iceland breaks the link with the Danish crown.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1944 — the context national timelines leave out.

3 years earlier Occupation and destruction Belarus
5 years later Bonn Basic Law Germany
5 years earlier Invasion and occupation Poland
5 years earlier Winter War Finland
6 years later Schuman Declaration
8 years later Seat of the High Authority Luxembourg
12 years later Budapest uprising Hungary
12 years earlier Holodomor Ukraine

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

World wars 1914 – 1945 Thirty years that undo Europe and its place in the world.

Countries involved

Iceland

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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