3600 BC Event Antiquity Malta
Megalithic temples
Ġgantija and Ħaġar Qim are built a millennium before the Egyptian pyramids.
A shared history
European construction did not begin in 1950. This thread links the ancient inheritance, the Judeo-Christian matrix and the contemporary Union.
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Ancient Greece 2 events509 BC Event Antiquity Italy
Birth of the Roman Republic
Kingship is abolished. Consuls, Senate and assemblies invent the balance of powers that modern constitutions will echo.
508 BC Event Antiquity Greece
Reforms of Cleisthenes
Athens entrusts power to the citizens’ assembly: the first documented democracy in history.
400 BC 301 BC
Ancient Greece 2 events387 BC Institution Antiquity Greece
Plato’s Academy
The West’s first philosophical institution; Aristotle studies there for twenty years before founding the Lyceum.
336 BC Event Antiquity North Macedonia
Ancient Macedon
The kingdom of Philip and Alexander carries Hellenism from Egypt to the Indus.
300 BC 201 BC
Ancient Greece 1 event250 BC Event Antiquity Greece
The Septuagint
The Hebrew Bible is translated into Greek in Alexandria: a decisive bridge between Judaism and the Hellenistic world.
200 BC 101 BC
Rome 1 event146 BC Event Antiquity Albania
Via Egnatia
Rome opens the road linking Dyrrachium to Constantinople: a major imperial axis for a thousand years.
100 BC 1 BC
Rome 2 events52 BC Event Antiquity France
Alesia
Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar. Gaul enters the Roman orbit for five centuries and adopts Latin.
19 BC Event Antiquity Spain
Hispania pacified
Augustus completes the conquest. Mérida, Tarragona and Italica become leading Roman cities.
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Rome 2 events9 Event Antiquity Germany
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Arminius annihilates three of Varus's legions. Rome abandons the conquest of Germania and fixes its frontier on the Rhine and Danube.
14 Institution Antiquity Slovenia
Foundation of Emona
The Roman colony, on the site of Ljubljana, guards the road from Italy to the Danube.
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Rome 2 events106 War Antiquity Romania
Trajan conquers Dacia
Trajan’s Column immortalises the campaign. Latinisation will give birth to the Romanian language.
122 Event Antiquity United Kingdom
Hadrian’s Wall
The Empire fixes its northern frontier; the wall remains the island’s greatest Roman relic.
200 299
Rome 1 event212 Text Antiquity Italy
Edict of Caracalla
Roman citizenship is extended to nearly all free men of the Empire: a legal, not ethnic, community.
300 399
Rome 1 event305 Event Antiquity Croatia
Diocletian’s Palace
The emperor builds his retirement residence at Split: the modern city grew inside its walls.