509 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.
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 events508 BC Event Antiquity Greece
Reforms of Cleisthenes
Athens entrusts power to the citizens’ assembly: the first documented democracy in history.