212 Testo Antichità Italia
Edict of Caracalla
Roman citizenship is extended to nearly all free men of the Empire: a legal, not ethnic, community.
La costruzione europea non è cominciata nel 1950. Questo filo unisce l’eredità antica, la matrice giudaico-cristiana e l’Unione contemporanea.
26 eventi
212 Testo Antichità Italia
Roman citizenship is extended to nearly all free men of the Empire: a legal, not ethnic, community.
313 Testo Cristianizzazione Italia
Constantine grants freedom of worship to Christians. The Empire turns to Christianity and hands it its administrative frameworks.
800 Testo Medioevo Irlanda
A masterpiece of insular illumination, symbol of Ireland’s role in transmitting texts.
1516 Testo Rinascimento e Riforme Paesi Bassi
The return to biblical sources opens the way to the Reformation and to modern textual criticism.
1517 Testo Rinascimento e Riforme Germania
At Wittenberg, Luther challenges indulgences. His German Bible founds the modern language and fractures Western Christendom.
1517 Testo Rinascimento e Riforme Bielorussia
The first book printed in Ruthenian appears in Prague, a year after Erasmus.
1539 Testo Rinascimento e Riforme Francia
Francis I imposes French in public acts: the vernacular supplants Latin in administration.
1548 Testo Rinascimento e Riforme Finlandia
Mikael Agricola creates written Finnish so that Scripture is accessible to all.
1685 Testo Età moderna Lettonia
Ernst Glück’s translation fixes the written language and spreads reading through the parishes.
1710 Testo Età moderna Ucraina
The Cossack text separates powers and limits the hetman: one of Europe’s oldest.
1739 Testo Età moderna Estonia
The complete translation fixes the literary language and accelerates rural literacy.
1766 Testo Età moderna Svezia
Sweden adopts the world’s first law guaranteeing public access to official documents.
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.
1814 Testo Età moderna Norvegia
On 17 May Norway adopts one of the most liberal constitutions of its time.
1835 Testo Età moderna Finlandia
Lönnrot compiles the national epic, the foundation of the Finnish cultural awakening.
1848 Testo Età moderna Svizzera
After a brief civil war, Switzerland becomes a federal state with direct democracy.
1849 Testo Età moderna Danimarca
Absolutism ends; Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
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.
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.
1957 Testo Costruzione europea Belgio
Belgian Paul-Henri Spaak drafts the preparatory text of the Treaties of Rome.
1963 Testo Costruzione europea
The Court of Justice asserts direct effect: Community law creates rights for citizens themselves.
1978 Testo Età contemporanea Spagna
Three years after Franco, Spain adopts a parliamentary monarchy and a state of autonomies.
1993 Testo Età contemporanea Andorra
Andorra becomes a sovereign state under the rule of law and joins the UN the same year.
2008 Testo Età contemporanea Kosovo
On 17 February Pristina proclaims independence; recognition remains partial.