509 a.C. Evento Antichità Italia
Birth of the Roman Republic
Kingship is abolished. Consuls, Senate and assemblies invent the balance of powers that modern constitutions will echo.
La costruzione europea non è cominciata nel 1950. Questo filo unisce l’eredità antica, la matrice giudaico-cristiana e l’Unione contemporanea.
23 eventi
509 a.C. Evento Antichità Italia
Kingship is abolished. Consuls, Senate and assemblies invent the balance of powers that modern constitutions will echo.
508 a.C. Evento Antichità Grecia
Athens entrusts power to the citizens’ assembly: the first documented democracy in history.
387 a.C. Istituzione Antichità Grecia
The West’s first philosophical institution; Aristotle studies there for twenty years before founding the Lyceum.
336 a.C. Evento Antichità Macedonia del Nord
The kingdom of Philip and Alexander carries Hellenism from Egypt to the Indus.
250 a.C. Evento Antichità Grecia
The Hebrew Bible is translated into Greek in Alexandria: a decisive bridge between Judaism and the Hellenistic world.
146 a.C. Evento Antichità Albania
Rome opens the road linking Dyrrachium to Constantinople: a major imperial axis for a thousand years.
52 a.C. Evento Antichità Francia
Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar. Gaul enters the Roman orbit for five centuries and adopts Latin.
19 a.C. Evento Antichità Spagna
Augustus completes the conquest. Mérida, Tarragona and Italica become leading Roman cities.
9 Evento Antichità Germania
Arminius annihilates three of Varus's legions. Rome abandons the conquest of Germania and fixes its frontier on the Rhine and Danube.
14 Istituzione Antichità Slovenia
The Roman colony, on the site of Ljubljana, guards the road from Italy to the Danube.
45 Evento Cristianizzazione Cipro
The first Christian mission outside Judaea recounted in Acts; the Roman proconsul converts.
60 Catastrofe Cristianizzazione Malta
The Acts of the Apostles recount the Maltese welcome: Christianity takes root at once.
64 Figura Cristianizzazione Città del Vaticano
Tradition places the apostle’s death and tomb at the Vatican; the basilica follows from it.
106 Guerra Antichità Romania
Trajan’s Column immortalises the campaign. Latinisation will give birth to the Romanian language.
122 Evento Antichità Regno Unito
The Empire fixes its northern frontier; the wall remains the island’s greatest Roman relic.
212 Testo Antichità Italia
Roman citizenship is extended to nearly all free men of the Empire: a legal, not ethnic, community.
301 Istituzione Cristianizzazione San Marino
Marinus, a Dalmatian stonecutter, establishes a Christian community on Mount Titano.
305 Evento Antichità Croazia
The emperor builds his retirement residence at Split: the modern city grew inside its walls.
313 Testo Cristianizzazione Italia
Constantine grants freedom of worship to Christians. The Empire turns to Christianity and hands it its administrative frameworks.
325 Religione Cristianizzazione Turchia
The first ecumenical council formulates the creed common to all Christian churches.
330 Istituzione Cristianizzazione Grecia
Constantine moves the imperial capital. A thousand years of Greek-speaking Christian empire begin.
431 Religione Cristianizzazione Cipro
The Council of Ephesus recognises the Cypriot Church’s independence, maintained for fifteen centuries.
432 Religione Cristianizzazione Irlanda
The island is Christianised without ever having been Roman: a unique case in Western Europe.