1163 Event Middle Ages France
Notre-Dame and the Gothic surge
From Saint-Denis to Chartres, Gothic architecture turns light into theology and spreads across Europe.
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
Early Middle Ages
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Concert of Europe
European integration
Rome
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Reformation and wars of religion
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High and Late Middle Ages 2 events1191 Event Middle Ages Cyprus
Lusignan kingdom
After the crusade, a Frankish dynasty rules the island for three centuries.
1200 1299
High and Late Middle Ages 8 events1201 Institution Christianisation Latvia
Foundation of Riga
Bishop Albert establishes a mission city that will become the metropolis of the eastern Baltic.
1215 Event Middle Ages United Kingdom
Magna Carta
The barons impose written limits on King John: the first milestone of constitutionalism.
1219 Religion Christianisation Serbia
Autocephalous Serbian Church
Saint Sava obtains Serbian ecclesiastical independence from Nicaea, a bedrock of national identity.
1219 Institution Christianisation Estonia
Foundation of Tallinn
The Danish crusade establishes a fortress; the town will join the Hanse.
1220 Event Middle Ages Iceland
The age of the sagas
Snorri Sturluson and his contemporaries commit Norse mythology and settler history to writing.
1222 Event Middle Ages Hungary
Golden Bull
Seven years after Magna Carta, the Hungarian nobility obtains written guarantees against royal arbitrariness.
1240 War Middle Ages Ukraine
Sack of Kyiv
The Mongol invasion destroys the capital and disperses the political legacy of Rus’.
1243 Event Middle Ages San Marino
First captains-regent
Two heads of state elected for six months: the system still operates today.