681 Evento Medioevo Bulgaria
First Bulgarian Empire
Byzantium recognises a Bulgarian state south of the Danube: Europe’s oldest still-named Slavic state.
La costruzione europea non è cominciata nel 1950. Questo filo unisce l’eredità antica, la matrice giudaico-cristiana e l’Unione contemporanea.
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681 Evento Medioevo Bulgaria
Byzantium recognises a Bulgarian state south of the Danube: Europe’s oldest still-named Slavic state.
711 Guerra Medioevo Spagna
The Visigothic kingdom collapses. By the tenth century Córdoba is one of the largest cities in the world.
756 Evento Medioevo Città del Vaticano
The Donation of Pepin founds a temporal power that will last eleven centuries.
793 Guerra Medioevo Norvegia
The sack of the English monastery conventionally opens the Viking age.
800 Testo Medioevo Irlanda
A masterpiece of insular illumination, symbol of Ireland’s role in transmitting texts.
870 Evento Medioevo Malta
Two centuries of Aghlabid rule give Maltese its Semitic base.
907 Evento Medioevo Slovacchia
The first West Slavic state collapses; the territory passes to Hungary for a thousand years.
925 Evento Medioevo Croazia
Tomislav is recognised as king; the country anchors itself in Latin Christendom.
930 Istituzione Medioevo Islanda
At Þingvellir the world’s oldest still-functioning parliament is born.
962 Evento Medioevo Germania
Otto I is crowned in Rome. The Empire claims direct descent from ancient Rome and acts as the secular arm of the Church.
963 Istituzione Medioevo Lussemburgo
Siegfried acquires a rock on the Alzette: the castle will give the country its name.
996 Evento Medioevo Austria
An imperial charter names for the first time the “eastern realm”, origin of the name Österreich.
1016 Evento Medioevo Danimarca
The Danish king rules England, Norway and Denmark: a North Sea empire.
1066 Guerra Medioevo Regno Unito
William imposes a French-speaking aristocracy; English absorbs thousands of Latin words.
1085 Istituzione Medioevo Spagna
The reconquered city becomes the workshop where the West recovers Greek science via Arabic and Hebrew.
1088 Istituzione Medioevo Italia
Europe’s oldest university is born around the study of the Digest: Roman law becomes a living science again.
1102 Evento Medioevo Croazia Ungheria
An eight-century personal union, Croatia keeping its diet and its ban.
1143 Evento Medioevo Portogallo
The Treaty of Zamora recognises Afonso Henriques as king. Today’s borders begin to take shape.
1163 Evento Medioevo Francia
From Saint-Denis to Chartres, Gothic architecture turns light into theology and spreads across Europe.
1191 Evento Medioevo Cipro
After the crusade, a Frankish dynasty rules the island for three centuries.
1215 Evento Medioevo Regno Unito
The barons impose written limits on King John: the first milestone of constitutionalism.
1220 Evento Medioevo Islanda
Snorri Sturluson and his contemporaries commit Norse mythology and settler history to writing.
1222 Evento Medioevo Ungheria
Seven years after Magna Carta, the Hungarian nobility obtains written guarantees against royal arbitrariness.
1240 Guerra Medioevo Ucraina
The Mongol invasion destroys the capital and disperses the political legacy of Rus’.
1243 Evento Medioevo San Marino
Two heads of state elected for six months: the system still operates today.
1253 Figura Medioevo Lituania
Lithuania’s only king is crowned with papal approval; the state enters the European concert.
1262 Trattato Medioevo Islanda Norvegia
Iceland recognises the sovereignty of the king of Norway; the free state ends.
1278 Evento Medioevo Andorra
The feudal act sharing sovereignty is still the country’s constitutional basis.
1278 Evento Medioevo Austria
Rudolf’s victory on the Marchfeld opens six centuries of dynastic rule.
1282 Evento Medioevo Lettonia
Trade in timber, flax and grain links Livonia to Lübeck, Bruges and Novgorod.
1290 Istituzione Medioevo Portogallo
Founded by King Dinis, it transmits canon and Roman law to the whole Lusophone world.
1291 Trattato Medioevo Svizzera
Three Alpine valleys swear mutual assistance: the founding act of the Confederation.
1297 Evento Medioevo Monaco
Francesco Grimaldi seizes the fortress; the dynasty has reigned ever since.
1302 Guerra Medioevo Belgio
Flemish communal militias crush the French chivalry: an assertion of urban power.
1346 Evento Medioevo Kosovo
The seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church is established in Kosovo, spiritual heart of the kingdom.
1348 Istituzione Medioevo Cechia
Charles IV founds Central Europe’s first university and makes Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
1349 Evento Medioevo Serbia
The emperor promulgates a code inspired by Byzantine law, among Europe’s oldest.
1354 Evento Medioevo Lussemburgo
Charles IV raises his native county to a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire.
1358 Evento Medioevo Croazia
Dubrovnik becomes an independent merchant republic and a diplomatic model.
1359 Evento Medioevo Romania
Two Orthodox, Romance-speaking states take shape between the Carpathians, Danube and Dniester.
1364 Istituzione Medioevo Polonia
Casimir the Great founds one of Central Europe’s oldest universities; Copernicus will study there.
1377 Evento Medioevo Bosnia ed Erzegovina
Tvrtko I is crowned king; the country reaches its medieval zenith.
1389 Guerra Medioevo Serbia
Defeat by the Ottomans becomes the founding narrative of Serbian memory.
1389 Guerra Medioevo Kosovo
The clash becomes a contested site of memory between Serbian and Albanian narratives.
1396 Guerra Medioevo Bulgaria
The fall of Vidin completes the conquest; five centuries of domination begin.
1397 Trattato Medioevo Danimarca
The three Scandinavian kingdoms are united under a single crown for more than a century.
1397 Trattato Medioevo Norvegia
Norway enters a Scandinavian union dominated by Denmark for four centuries.
1410 Guerra Medioevo Lituania
Poles and Lithuanians break the Teutonic Order and redraw the Baltic.
1415 Evento Medioevo Cechia
Condemned at Constance, the Czech reformer becomes a national martyr and a forerunner of Luther.
1443 Guerra Medioevo Albania
Twenty-five years of resistance to the Ottomans make him a hero of Christendom.
1453 Evento Medioevo Grecia
Byzantine scholars flee to Italy with their manuscripts, feeding the Renaissance directly.
1453 Evento Medioevo Turchia
Mehmed II ends the Eastern Roman Empire; Europe’s commercial and intellectual horizon shifts.
1457 Figura Medioevo Moldavia
Forty-seven years of resistance to the Ottomans and of monastic foundations.
1463 Guerra Medioevo Bosnia ed Erzegovina
Four centuries of rule begin; a large share of the population converts to Islam.