Een timetable van de belangrijke jaartallen in het boek ''The Shortest history of Europe'' van John Hirst. Aangezien het boek niet op chronologische volgorde is, is het fijn om alle gebeurtenissen op volgorde te kunnen zien en dat maakt het studeren ook makkelijker. Ook is het door kleur visueeler ...
Timetable European Culture
Blue is England
Red is France
Orange is Russia
Green is Germany
500 BC: The Roman Republic was established when the Romans
overthrew the tyrant king, Tarquin the Proud.
5th century BC: Golden age in Athens
4th century BC: Alexander the Great took over Athens and all other Greek
states
27 BC: Augustus made himself into Rome’s first emperor
1st century AD: Romans went to Britain
313 AD: emperor Constantine became a Christian, or at least gave official
support to the Christian churches
3th century AD: Series of German invasions
5th century
400s: German warriors flooded in. There were so many and they took so
much land, there was nothing left for the emperor to control.
+- 400 AD: Empire was permanently divided into east and west
410 AD: Romans departed Britain
476 AD: German warriors had destroyed the empire in the west.
476 AD – 1400: Odd mixture ‘’German warriors support Roman Christian
church, which preserves Greek & Roman learning’’ held together.
476 AD - 1400: Middle Ages or medieval period.
Church copied and re-copied the Greek and Roman learning
476 AD: The western half of the Empire fell
5th and 6th century: German peoples (Angles, Saxons and Jutes) invaded
England
6th century AD: Most complete compendium of Roman law was
assembled by the order of Emperor Justinian
6th and 7th century: Slavs invaded the Eastern Roman Empire.
7th and 8th century: Islamic invasion
800: Charlemagne was declared Roman emperor by the pope
962: Otto the First emerged in the German part of Charlemagne’s old
empire. The pope crowned Otto as the Roman emperor
9th and 10th century: Viking/ Norsemen invasion
After 1400: Renaissance begins (started in Italy)
11th century
11th century: Pope and emperor fell out because popes began to insist
that the church should be run from Rome and kings and princes should not
meddle in its affairs.
1066: Norman Duke William conquered England
1095: Crusades to the Holy Land
, 15th century
+- 1400: European civilization was unstable and began to fall apart
15th century: Europe started to expand overseas Growth of commerce,
banking and shipping and hence the growth of towns.
1453: Constantinople was captured by the Muslims
The Roman Empire came to an end
1480: Ming emperor of China ruled that overseas exploration and trade
were forbidden
1492: Last Muslims driven from Spain
16th century
16th century: Protestant Reformation (started mainly in Germany)
1534: Henry VII declared that he himself was head of the Catholic Church
in England
17th century
17th century: Scientific Revolution
17th century: English monarchs tried to become absolute monarch on
European lines
18th century
18th century: Enlightenment
18th century: The destruction that Latin, Greek, Slavonic and German
language all descended from Indo-European
Mid 18th century: Industrial Revolution in England (1760-1850, also
Belgium)
1780s: The French monarch was close to bankrupt Reformers got their
chance
1789: Revolution France
The Assembly of the Third Estate used a manifesto: The Declaration
of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
1792: Republic proclaimed
1793: King Louis XVI was executed
Late 18th century, early 19th century: Romantic movement
1799: Napoleon Bonaparte took charge in France
19th century
1815: Napoleon I was defeated
1820: Push for reform recommenced
1830: French Revolution
1832: Reform Act gave vote to middle class and wiped out the
representation of the tiny or non-existing towns
1840: German Friedrich Engels ‘’The Condition of the Working Class’’ in
England
1848: French Revolution
Working men and their representatives were part of the first
revolutionary
government
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