1900 Evento Età moderna Austria
Vienna 1900
Freud, Klimt, Mahler, Wittgenstein: the capital becomes the laboratory of European modernity.
La costruzione europea non è cominciata nel 1950. Questo filo unisce l’eredità antica, la matrice giudaico-cristiana e l’Unione contemporanea.
105 eventi
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.
1923 Istituzione Età contemporanea Turchia
Mustafa Kemal launches rapid Westernisation: Latin alphabet, Swiss civil code, secularism.
1923 Evento Età contemporanea Liechtenstein Svizzera
The Swiss franc becomes official currency; Bern represents the principality abroad.
1929 Evento Età contemporanea Città del Vaticano
Vatican City State is created; the Roman question is closed.
1932 Catastrofe Età contemporanea Ucraina
The famine engineered by Stalin kills millions; several states recognise it as genocide.
1939 Guerra Età contemporanea Polonia
Invaded by Germany then the USSR, Poland loses nearly a fifth of its population.
1939 Guerra Età contemporanea Finlandia
Facing Soviet invasion, Finnish resistance saves independence at the cost of Karelia.
1941 Guerra Età contemporanea Bielorussia
A quarter of the population perishes; hundreds of villages are razed.
1942 Evento Età contemporanea Malta
King George VI decorates the entire island for its endurance under bombardment.
1943 Evento Età contemporanea Bulgaria
Under pressure from the Orthodox Church and parliamentarians, deportation is cancelled.
1943 Evento Età contemporanea Danimarca
In a few nights, more than 7,000 Jews are evacuated to neutral Sweden.
1944 Evento Età contemporanea Islanda
On 17 June, at Þingvellir, Iceland breaks the link with the Danish crown.
1944 Evento Età contemporanea San Marino
The neutral republic houses more than 100,000 people, ten times its population.
1944 Evento Età contemporanea Paesi Bassi
Signed in London by the governments in exile, it prefigures the common market.
1944 Guerra Età contemporanea Slovacchia
One of the largest armed revolts against the Axis in occupied Europe.
1949 Testo Età contemporanea Germania
“Human dignity shall be inviolable”: Article 1 places the person — a Christian and humanist legacy — at the summit of the legal order.
1949 Istituzione Costruzione europea
Ten states found in London the first European political organisation, matrix of the Convention on Human Rights.
1950 Testo Costruzione europea
On 9 May France proposes placing coal and steel under a common authority. Community Europe is born of a material pooling.
1951 Trattato Costruzione europea
Six states create the European Coal and Steel Community, the continent’s first supranational institution.
1952 Guerra Costruzione europea Lussemburgo
Europe’s first supranational institution settles in Luxembourg.
1955 Trattato Età contemporanea Austria
The four powers withdraw; Austria proclaims perpetual neutrality.
1956 Guerra Età contemporanea Ungheria
The revolt is crushed by the Red Army; 200,000 Hungarians go into exile.
1957 Evento Costruzione europea
The EEC and Euratom are established; the common market and the four freedoms are laid down.
1957 Testo Costruzione europea Belgio
Belgian Paul-Henri Spaak drafts the preparatory text of the Treaties of Rome.
1960 Evento Età contemporanea Cipro
The Republic of Cyprus is born of a compromise between Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
1962 Religione Età contemporanea Città del Vaticano
The Church reforms its liturgy and redefines its relations with the modern world and Judaism.
1963 Trattato Costruzione europea Francia
De Gaulle and Adenauer seal Franco-German reconciliation, the institutional engine of integration.
1963 Trattato Costruzione europea Turchia
Association with the EEC explicitly envisages an accession perspective.
1963 Testo Costruzione europea
The Court of Justice asserts direct effect: Community law creates rights for citizens themselves.
1964 Evento Età contemporanea Malta
Malta leaves the British Empire and becomes a republic ten years later.
1967 Evento Età contemporanea Albania
Albania proclaims itself the world’s first atheist state; churches and mosques are closed.
1968 Evento Età contemporanea Cechia
“Socialism with a human face” is crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks in August.
1968 Evento Costruzione europea
Internal tariffs disappear eighteen months ahead of schedule.
1969 Scoperta Età contemporanea Norvegia
North Sea oil transforms the economy and founds the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund.
1973 Evento Costruzione europea Danimarca
The first Nordic member, Denmark enters alongside the United Kingdom and Ireland.
1973 Evento Costruzione europea Irlanda
Ireland joins with the United Kingdom and begins its economic transformation.
1973 Evento Costruzione europea Regno Unito
After two French vetoes, the United Kingdom enters the EEC with Denmark and Ireland.
1973 Evento Costruzione europea
Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom join the Communities, which grow from six to nine.
1974 Evento Età contemporanea Portogallo
On 25 April an almost bloodless military coup restores democracy.
1974 Evento Età contemporanea Cipro
The coup and Turkish intervention cut Cyprus in two; the Green Line crosses Nicosia.
1974 Evento Età contemporanea Kosovo
The Yugoslav constitution grants Kosovo near-republican attributes.
1975 Trattato Costruzione europea Finlandia
Thirty-five states sign a text placing human rights at the heart of détente.
1978 Testo Età contemporanea Spagna
Three years after Franco, Spain adopts a parliamentary monarchy and a state of autonomies.
1979 Evento Costruzione europea
For the first time citizens directly elect their MEPs; Simone Veil chairs the assembly.
1980 Evento Età contemporanea Polonia
At the Gdańsk shipyards the Soviet bloc’s first free trade union is born. Communism loses its workers’ legitimacy.
1980 Evento Età contemporanea Islanda
Iceland elects the world’s first woman head of state by direct universal suffrage.
1981 Evento Costruzione europea Grecia
As the tenth member, Greece anchors its restored democracy in Community Europe.
1984 Evento Età contemporanea Liechtenstein
The last country in Europe to grant it, by a male-only referendum.
1985 Trattato Costruzione europea
Five states sign on the Moselle an agreement progressively abolishing internal border controls.
1986 Evento Costruzione europea Spagna
With Portugal, Spain joins the EEC: southern enlargement consecrates democratisation.
1986 Evento Costruzione europea Portogallo
Portugal joins the EEC on the same day as Spain and begins rapid economic catch-up.
1986 Catastrofe Età contemporanea Bielorussia
Nearly 70 % of the radioactive fallout lands on Belarusian territory.
1986 Trattato Costruzione europea
The internal market is scheduled for 1993 and qualified majority voting extended.
1988 Evento Età contemporanea Estonia
Three hundred thousand Estonians sing banned anthems together: dissent becomes massive.
1989 Evento Età contemporanea Romania
The only violent fall of a European communist regime; Ceaușescu is executed on 25 December.
1989 Evento Età contemporanea Cechia
In a few weeks and without violence the regime falls; Václav Havel becomes president.
1989 Evento Costruzione europea Ungheria
On 19 August Hungary opens its border with Austria: the first breach in the Iron Curtain.
1989 Evento Età contemporanea Lituania
Two million people form a human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius.
1989 Evento Costruzione europea
9 November opens German reunification and, in time, that of the continent.
1990 Evento Età contemporanea Germania
A year after the Wall fell, the five eastern Länder join the Federal Republic and the European Community.
1990 Evento Età contemporanea Lituania
On 11 March Lithuania is the first republic to leave the USSR.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Croazia
The declaration of 25 June opens four years of war on Croatian territory.
1991 Guerra Età contemporanea Slovenia
Slovenia leaves Yugoslavia after the shortest of the decade’s conflicts.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Lettonia
After the Singing Revolution, Latvia regains its sovereignty.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Estonia
On 20 August Estonia again proclaims its sovereignty.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Ucraina
More than 90 % of voters approve leaving the USSR on 1 December.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Albania
After forty-seven years of isolation, pluralism is restored.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Macedonia del Nord
The only Yugoslav republic to separate without war.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Moldavia
The republic proclaims sovereignty on 27 August, days after the Moscow putsch.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Bielorussia
The Belavezha Accords, signed in Belarus, formalise the dissolution of the USSR.
1992 Guerra Età contemporanea Bosnia ed Erzegovina
The siege of Sarajevo lasts 1,425 days; Srebrenica is recognised as genocide.
1992 Trattato Costruzione europea
The European Union is created, with European citizenship and the timetable for the single currency.
1992 Evento Costruzione europea Svizzera
The people reject the European Economic Area; the bilateral path prevails.
1992 Evento Età contemporanea Moldavia
A ceasefire freezes a de facto secession that has lasted more than thirty years.
1993 Testo Età contemporanea Andorra
Andorra becomes a sovereign state under the rule of law and joins the UN the same year.
1993 Evento Età contemporanea Slovacchia
On 1 January the Slovak Republic is born of a negotiated, peaceful separation.
1993 Evento Età contemporanea Belgio
The fourth state reform enshrines in the Constitution a federal state of communities and regions.
1993 Evento Età contemporanea Cechia Slovacchia
Czechia and Slovakia separate peacefully on 1 January, a rare case in Europe.
1994 Evento Costruzione europea Norvegia
52.2 % of Norwegians reject Union entry; the EEA takes over.
1995 Evento Età contemporanea Bosnia ed Erzegovina
Peace establishes a two-entity state whose architecture still governs the country.
1995 Evento Costruzione europea Svezia
With Austria and Finland, Sweden joins the EU; it will reject the euro by referendum in 2003.
1995 Evento Costruzione europea Liechtenstein
The principality joins the European internal market without entering the Union.
1995 Evento Costruzione europea Austria
Austria joins the EU by referendum and becomes a pivot towards Central Europe.
1995 Evento Costruzione europea
Austria, Finland and Sweden bring the Union to fifteen members.
1998 Trattato Età contemporanea Irlanda
Thirty years of conflict end; the Irish border becomes invisible.
1999 Guerra Età contemporanea Kosovo
After months of conflict, the territory passes under United Nations administration.
1999 Trattato Costruzione europea Turchia
The Helsinki European Council recognises Türkiye as a candidate country.
1999 Evento Costruzione europea
Eleven currencies are irrevocably fixed; the European Central Bank takes up its functions.