1710 Text Early modern period Ukraine
Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk
The Cossack text separates powers and limits the hetman: one of Europe’s oldest.
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
High and Late Middle Ages
Reformation and wars of religion
Age of revolutions
World wars
Cold War
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Enlightenment 7 events1719 Institution Early modern period Liechtenstein
Creation of the principality
Emperor Charles VI raises the two lordships into an imperial principality.
1739 Text Early modern period Estonia
Bible in Estonian
The complete translation fixes the literary language and accelerates rural literacy.
1755 Disaster Early modern period Portugal
Lisbon earthquake
The disaster inspires Voltaire and Kant: the problem of evil becomes central to the Enlightenment.
1766 Text Early modern period Sweden
First freedom of the press act
Sweden adopts the world’s first law guaranteeing public access to official documents.
1789 Text Early modern period France
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Assembly proclaims universal rights. The political vocabulary of contemporary Europe flows directly from it.
1791 Text Early modern period Poland
Constitution of 3 May
Europe’s first written constitution, adopted shortly before the country’s third partition.
1800 1824
Age of revolutions 1 event1804 Text Early modern period France
Civil Code
Napoleon commissions a synthesis of Roman and customary law, exported from Spain to Poland.