1861 Event Early modern period Italy
Italian unification
The Risorgimento produces the Kingdom of Italy; Rome joins in 1870, ending the Papal States.
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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Concert of Europe 7 events1861 Treaty Early modern period Monaco
Franco-Monegasque treaty
Monaco cedes Menton and Roquebrune and sees its independence recognised.
1863 Institution Early modern period Switzerland
Founding of the Red Cross
Henry Dunant creates in Geneva the institution that will give birth to humanitarian law.
1863 Event Early modern period Monaco
Monte-Carlo Casino
The Société des bains de mer turns a poor rock into a European destination.
1864 Event Early modern period Lithuania
Ban on the Lithuanian press
Forty years of book smuggling keep the language alive.
1867 Treaty Early modern period Hungary
Austro-Hungarian Compromise
Budapest becomes the second capital of an empire of fifty million people.
1867 Treaty Early modern period Luxembourg
Treaty of London
The fortress is dismantled and the country’s neutrality guaranteed by the powers.