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.
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.