Una storia comune

La costruzione europea non è cominciata nel 1950. Questo filo unisce l’eredità antica, la matrice giudaico-cristiana e l’Unione contemporanea.

Confrontare due paesi

326 eventi

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46 paesi rappresentati

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Densità degli eventi

Un secolo per barra prima del 1500, poi un decennio: gli archivi non si distribuiscono in modo uniforme.

Grecia antica Alto Medioevo Rinascimento Illuminismo Concerto europeo Costruzione europea Roma Basso Medioevo Riforma e guerre di religione Età delle rivoluzioni Guerre mondiali Guerra fredda

1780 1829 1879

Azzera i filtri

32 eventi

1700 1799

Illuminismo 2 eventi

1789 Testo Età moderna Francia

Declaration of the Rights of Man

The Assembly proclaims universal rights. The political vocabulary of contemporary Europe flows directly from it.

1791 Testo Età moderna Polonia

Constitution of 3 May

Europe’s first written constitution, adopted shortly before the country’s third partition.

1800 1824

Età delle rivoluzioni 8 eventi

1804 Testo Età moderna Francia

Civil Code

Napoleon commissions a synthesis of Roman and customary law, exported from Spain to Poland.

1806 Evento Età moderna Liechtenstein

Sovereignty acquired

The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire leaves Liechtenstein fully sovereign.

1809 Evento Età moderna Finlandia

Autonomous grand duchy

Attached to Russia, Finland keeps its Swedish laws and develops its institutions.

1812 Evento Età moderna Moldavia

Annexation of Bessarabia

Russia takes the eastern half of the principality at the Treaty of Bucharest.

1814 Testo Età moderna Norvegia

Eidsvoll Constitution

On 17 May Norway adopts one of the most liberal constitutions of its time.

1814 Evento Età moderna Svezia

Beginning of neutrality

Sweden’s last war. Two centuries of non-alignment begin.

1815 Trattato Età moderna Austria

Congress of Vienna

Metternich reorganises post-Napoleonic Europe: the continent’s first collective security system.

1815 Istituzione Età moderna Lussemburgo Paesi Bassi

Creation of the Grand Duchy

The Congress of Vienna makes Luxembourg a sovereign state in personal union with the Netherlands.

1825 1849

Concerto europeo 8 eventi

1830 Evento Età moderna Belgio

Belgian independence

The Brussels revolution creates a constitutional kingdom, neutral and guaranteed by the powers.

1830 Evento Età moderna Grecia

Greek independence

Backed by European philhellenism, Greece becomes a state again after four Ottoman centuries.

1835 Testo Età moderna Finlandia

Publication of the Kalevala

Lönnrot compiles the national epic, the foundation of the Finnish cultural awakening.

1843 Evento Età moderna Slovacchia

Codification of Slovak

Ľudovít Štúr fixes the literary standard, a precondition of modern nationhood.

1845 Catastrofe Età moderna Irlanda

The Great Famine

A million dead, two million exiled: the island’s population has never recovered.

1848 Testo Età moderna Svizzera

Federal Constitution

After a brief civil war, Switzerland becomes a federal state with direct democracy.

1848 Evento Età moderna Slovenia

United Slovenia programme

The springtime of peoples sees the first national political claim formulated.

1849 Testo Età moderna Danimarca

Liberal constitution

Absolutism ends; Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.

1850 1874

Concerto europeo 10 eventi

1859 Evento Età moderna Romania

Union of the principalities

Cuza is elected in both Iași and Bucharest: modern Romania appears on the map.

1861 Evento Età moderna Italia

Italian unification

The Risorgimento produces the Kingdom of Italy; Rome joins in 1870, ending the Papal States.

1861 Trattato Età moderna Monaco

Franco-Monegasque treaty

Monaco cedes Menton and Roquebrune and sees its independence recognised.

1863 Istituzione Età moderna Svizzera

Founding of the Red Cross

Henry Dunant creates in Geneva the institution that will give birth to humanitarian law.

1863 Evento Età moderna Monaco

Monte-Carlo Casino

The Société des bains de mer turns a poor rock into a European destination.

1864 Evento Età moderna Lituania

Ban on the Lithuanian press

Forty years of book smuggling keep the language alive.

1867 Trattato Età moderna Ungheria

Austro-Hungarian Compromise

Budapest becomes the second capital of an empire of fifty million people.

1867 Trattato Età moderna Lussemburgo

Treaty of London

The fortress is dismantled and the country’s neutrality guaranteed by the powers.

1871 Evento Età moderna Germania

Proclamation of the German Empire

At Versailles, Bismarck completes unification. A first-rank industrial power arises at the centre of the continent.

1873 Evento Età moderna Lettonia

First song festival

Dozens of choirs gather in Riga: song becomes the nation’s political expression.

1875 1899

Concerto europeo 4 eventi

1878 Trattato Età moderna Bulgaria

Treaty of Berlin

An autonomous Bulgarian principality is reborn after the Russo-Turkish war.

1878 Evento Età moderna Serbia

Independence of Serbia recognised

The Congress of Berlin confirms Serbian sovereignty after four Ottoman centuries.

1878 Evento Età moderna Montenegro

Independence of Montenegro recognised

The Congress of Berlin confirms a state the Ottomans had never fully subdued.

1878 Evento Età moderna Bosnia ed Erzegovina

Austro-Hungarian administration

The Congress of Berlin entrusts Bosnia to Vienna, which annexes it in 1908.