1830 Evento Età moderna Grecia
Greek independence
Backed by European philhellenism, Greece becomes a state again after four Ottoman centuries.
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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1830 Evento Età moderna Grecia
Backed by European philhellenism, Greece becomes a state again after four Ottoman centuries.
1830 Evento Età moderna Belgio
The Brussels revolution creates a constitutional kingdom, neutral and guaranteed by the powers.
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.
1849 Testo Età moderna Danimarca
Absolutism ends; Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1859 Evento Età moderna Romania
Cuza is elected in both Iași and Bucharest: modern Romania appears on the map.
1861 Evento Età moderna Italia
The Risorgimento produces the Kingdom of Italy; Rome joins in 1870, ending the Papal States.
1861 Trattato Età moderna Monaco
Monaco cedes Menton and Roquebrune and sees its independence recognised.
1863 Istituzione Età moderna Svizzera
Henry Dunant creates in Geneva the institution that will give birth to humanitarian law.
1863 Evento Età moderna Monaco
The Société des bains de mer turns a poor rock into a European destination.
1864 Evento Età moderna Lituania
Forty years of book smuggling keep the language alive.
1867 Trattato Età moderna Ungheria
Budapest becomes the second capital of an empire of fifty million people.
1867 Trattato Età moderna Lussemburgo
The fortress is dismantled and the country’s neutrality guaranteed by the powers.
1871 Evento Età moderna Germania
At Versailles, Bismarck completes unification. A first-rank industrial power arises at the centre of the continent.
1873 Evento Età moderna Lettonia
Dozens of choirs gather in Riga: song becomes the nation’s political expression.
1878 Trattato Età moderna Bulgaria
An autonomous Bulgarian principality is reborn after the Russo-Turkish war.
1878 Evento Età moderna Serbia
The Congress of Berlin confirms Serbian sovereignty after four Ottoman centuries.
1878 Evento Età moderna Montenegro
The Congress of Berlin confirms a state the Ottomans had never fully subdued.
1878 Evento Età moderna Bosnia ed Erzegovina
The Congress of Berlin entrusts Bosnia to Vienna, which annexes it in 1908.
1900 Evento Età moderna Austria
Freud, Klimt, Mahler, Wittgenstein: the capital becomes the laboratory of European modernity.
1903 Guerra Età moderna Macedonia del Nord
The revolt against the Ottomans becomes the founding reference of the Macedonian state.
1905 Evento Età moderna Norvegia Svezia
The union with Sweden is peacefully dissolved after a massive referendum.
1906 Evento Età moderna Finlandia
Finland is the first country in Europe to grant women both the vote and eligibility for office.
1910 Evento Età moderna Portogallo
The monarchy falls; the instability that follows will open the way to the Estado Novo.
1912 Evento Età moderna Albania
Proclaimed at Vlora on 28 November, at the end of the Balkan wars.
1914 Guerra Età contemporanea Serbia
The killing of the archduke sets off the chain reaction of the First World War.
1914 Evento Età contemporanea Belgio
The German invasion brings the United Kingdom into the war and freezes the Yser front.
1916 Guerra Età contemporanea Irlanda
The Dublin revolt, at first isolated, sets the independence process in motion.
1917 Evento Età contemporanea Finlandia
On 6 December Finland separates from revolutionary Russia.
1918 Evento Età moderna Romania
Union with Transylvania and Bessarabia doubles the territory and population.
1918 Evento Età moderna Cechia
Masaryk founds a parliamentary democracy that will remain unique in Central Europe.
1918 Evento Età moderna Lettonia
On 18 November the Republic of Latvia is proclaimed in Riga.
1918 Evento Età moderna Estonia
Proclaimed on 24 February, it is successfully defended in the war of liberation.
1918 Evento Età moderna Slovenia
The fall of Austria-Hungary brings Slovenia into the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1918 Evento Età moderna Montenegro
Montenegro is absorbed into the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1918 Evento Età moderna Moldavia Romania
The Sfatul Țării votes for union, annulled by the USSR in 1940.
1920 Trattato Età moderna Ungheria
Hungary loses two-thirds of its territory; three million Magyars become minorities.