About European History
The exciting history of the Europe will come to life with this history from early European through the tumultuous 20th Century to introduction of the Euro and current times with the 21st Century. Featuring videos of...
The exciting history of the Europe will come to life with this history from early European through the tumultuous 20th Century to introduction of the Euro and current times with the 21st Century.
Featuring videos of important events European history and historical photos and pictures, key events in the Europe can be explained and relived.
Interactive timelines that you control on your phone or tablet with allow you to scroll through the centuries make it easy and fun to explore European history.
Important people and events you will meet include:
1) Pre-historic Europe from Homo erectus to Cro-Magnon.
2) Minoan civilization and Aegean Bronze Age civilization.
3) Mycenaean civilization to Ancient Greece including Homer and the Illiad to the Classical Greek period.
4) Roman civilization including the Roman Kingdom, Republican and Empire.
5) Women in Ancient Greece and Rome.
6) The Gauls and the Franks.
7) Hellenistic period of Mediterranean history with Alexander the Great .
8) Byzantine empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.
9) Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.
10) Early Middle Ages and Medieval Period with everyday life and Medieval art.
11) Vikings
12) Norman Invasion of England by William the Conqueror.
13) Great famine of 1315–17 and Black Plague.
14) Hundred Years' War
15) Renaissance art & architecture, science, Nicolaus Copernicus
16) Johannes Gutenberg & 1st printing press.
17) Reformation and schism in Western Christianity.
18) Adoption of Gregorian calendar.
19) Industrial Revolution
20) Galileo Galilei & his telescope.
21) Thirty Year's War
22) Age of Enlightenment.
23) Isaac Newton publishes Principia Mathematica
24) Treaty of Karlowitz concludes Austro-Ottoman War
25) Great Northern War - Sweden & Russia.
26) War of Spanish Succession.
27) Thomas Newcomen & 1st steam engine.
28) Russian Empire through Revolution of 1917.
29) James Watt steam engine.
30) Immanuel Kant & philosophy.
31) Long 19th century, French Revolution, Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars.
32) Napoleon abolishes Holy Roman Empire
33) Congress / Treaty of Vienna
34) George Stephonson & world's first public railway.
35) Louis Daguerre - 1st photographic method.
36) First steamship crosses the Atlantic.
37) Europe Year of Revolution in 1848.
38) Crimean War
39) Charles Darwin
40) Russia emancipates its serfs
41) Unification of Italy
42) 1st transatlantic telegraph cable.
43) Franco-Prussian War.
44) Unification of Germany.
45) Panic of 1873, Long Depression.
46) Benz & world's first 'production' automobile.
47) First tram system launched in Sarajevo.
48) Auguste and Louis Lumière - first cinematograph.
49) Marconi and the 1st Transatlantic Radio Transmission.
50) World War I.
51) Bolsheviks & Russia Revolution.
52) 1918 worldwide flu epidemic
53) Weimar Republic.
54) Treaty of Versailles, the end of World War 1 and the League of Nations.
55) Irish Free State
56) Benito Mussoli and Italy
57) Great Depression
58) Spanish Civil War
59) Adolf Hitler and Nazis in Germany.
60) Persecution of Jews the Holocaust.
60) Major events in World War 2.
61) Cold War period, United Nations, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Hungarian Uprising, Prague Spring and the Berlin Wall
62) Beginning of European integration.
63) May 1968 events in France
64) Solidarity Movement, Lech Wałęsa in Poland.
65) Mikhail Gorbachev reforms in Russia.
66) Chernobyl disaster.
67) Fall of the Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall and unification of Germany.
68) Breakup of Yugoslavia and the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars
69) Dissolution of the Soviet Union
70) Post-Cold War in Europe
71) Maastricht Treaty and the European Union
72) The Euro currency of introduced.
73) Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus and Malta and the European Union
74) Revolution in Ukraine
75) Brexit
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