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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326 events

3600 BC earliest marker

46 countries covered

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One century per bar before 1500, one decade after: archives are not evenly spread.

Ancient Greece Early Middle Ages Renaissance Enlightenment Concert of Europe European integration Rome High and Late Middle Ages Reformation and wars of religion Age of revolutions World wars Cold War

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High and Late Middle Ages 13 events

1348 Institution Middle Ages Czechia

Charles University

Charles IV founds Central Europe’s first university and makes Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.

1349 Event Middle Ages Serbia

Dušan’s Code

The emperor promulgates a code inspired by Byzantine law, among Europe’s oldest.

1354 Event Middle Ages Luxembourg

Elevation to duchy

Charles IV raises his native county to a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire.

1358 Event Middle Ages Croatia

Republic of Ragusa

Dubrovnik becomes an independent merchant republic and a diplomatic model.

1359 Event Middle Ages Romania

Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia

Two Orthodox, Romance-speaking states take shape between the Carpathians, Danube and Dniester.

1364 Institution Middle Ages Poland

University of Kraków

Casimir the Great founds one of Central Europe’s oldest universities; Copernicus will study there.

1377 Event Middle Ages Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kingdom of Bosnia

Tvrtko I is crowned king; the country reaches its medieval zenith.

1387 Religion Christianisation Lithuania

Christianisation of Lithuania

The last country in Europe to convert, Lithuania seals its union with Poland.

1389 War Middle Ages Serbia

Battle of Kosovo

Defeat by the Ottomans becomes the founding narrative of Serbian memory.

1389 War Middle Ages Kosovo

Battle of Kosovo

The clash becomes a contested site of memory between Serbian and Albanian narratives.

1396 War Middle Ages Bulgaria

Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria

The fall of Vidin completes the conquest; five centuries of domination begin.

1397 Treaty Middle Ages Denmark

Kalmar Union

The three Scandinavian kingdoms are united under a single crown for more than a century.

1397 Treaty Middle Ages Norway

Kalmar Union

Norway enters a Scandinavian union dominated by Denmark for four centuries.

1400 1499

Renaissance 5 events

1400 – 1550 Event Renaissance and Reformations Italy

The Florentine Renaissance

Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo: antiquity becomes again an aesthetic norm and an intellectual programme.

1410 War Middle Ages Lithuania

Battle of Grunwald

Poles and Lithuanians break the Teutonic Order and redraw the Baltic.

1415 Event Middle Ages Czechia

Jan Hus burned at the stake

Condemned at Constance, the Czech reformer becomes a national martyr and a forerunner of Luther.

1432 Event Renaissance and Reformations Belgium

The Ghent Altarpiece

In Ghent Van Eyck completes the altarpiece that inaugurates oil painting and the Northern Renaissance.

1443 War Middle Ages Albania

Skanderbeg’s revolt

Twenty-five years of resistance to the Ottomans make him a hero of Christendom.