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.
La costruzione europea non è cominciata nel 1950. Questo filo unisce l’eredità antica, la matrice giudaico-cristiana e l’Unione contemporanea.
17 eventi
1789 Testo Età moderna Francia
The Assembly proclaims universal rights. The political vocabulary of contemporary Europe flows directly from it.
1791 Testo Età moderna Polonia
Europe’s first written constitution, adopted shortly before the country’s third partition.
1804 Testo Età moderna Francia
Napoleon commissions a synthesis of Roman and customary law, exported from Spain to Poland.
1806 Evento Età moderna Liechtenstein
The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire leaves Liechtenstein fully sovereign.
1809 Evento Età moderna Finlandia
Attached to Russia, Finland keeps its Swedish laws and develops its institutions.
1812 Evento Età moderna Moldavia
Russia takes the eastern half of the principality at the Treaty of Bucharest.
1814 Testo Età moderna Norvegia
On 17 May Norway adopts one of the most liberal constitutions of its time.
1814 Evento Età moderna Svezia
Sweden’s last war. Two centuries of non-alignment begin.
1815 Trattato Età moderna Austria
Metternich reorganises post-Napoleonic Europe: the continent’s first collective security system.
1815 Istituzione Età moderna Lussemburgo Paesi Bassi
The Congress of Vienna makes Luxembourg a sovereign state in personal union with the Netherlands.
1830 Evento Età moderna Belgio
The Brussels revolution creates a constitutional kingdom, neutral and guaranteed by the powers.
1830 Evento Età moderna Grecia
Backed by European philhellenism, Greece becomes a state again after four Ottoman centuries.
1835 Testo Età moderna Finlandia
Lönnrot compiles the national epic, the foundation of the Finnish cultural awakening.
1843 Evento Età moderna Slovacchia
Ľudovít Štúr fixes the literary standard, a precondition of modern nationhood.
1845 Catastrofe Età moderna Irlanda
A million dead, two million exiled: the island’s population has never recovered.
1848 Testo Età moderna Svizzera
After a brief civil war, Switzerland becomes a federal state with direct democracy.
1848 Evento Età moderna Slovenia
The springtime of peoples sees the first national political claim formulated.