European History For Dummies Pdf

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Description of the book 'European History For Dummies': The rich variety of Europe's history rolled into one thrillingaccount. This book takes you on a fascinating journey through thedisasters, triumphs, people, power and politics that have shapedthe Europe we know today - and you'll meet some incrediblecharacters along the way!

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European history has had numerous great turns and changes over the centuries with its mighty empires forming, expanding, exploring and warring, and revolutions of all kinds through the centuries, which can split into four major eras. Have a look at the key dates of events that shaped Europe.

Key Dates in Ancient Europe

The ancient world is full of dramatic events and fascinating characters. Here’s a taster of the main events that occurred in Europe in BC (Before Christ) and the first 500 years AD (AnnoDomini, or ‘Year of Our Lord’)

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YearEvent
c3000 BCBronze Age in southern Europe
c4000 BCNeolithic culture at its height in northern Europe
c2000 BCIron Age in northern Europe
c1700 BCConstruction of palace of King Minos at Knossos, Crete
c1550 BCEarthquakes destroy Minoan civilisation
509 BCRoman Republic established
431–404 BCPeloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta
336–323 BCAlexander the Great conquers Persia (modern-day Iran)
216 BCHannibal defeats Romans at Battle of Cannae
146 BCRomans destroy Carthage and conquer Greece
49 BCJulius Caesar crosses the Rubicon: Roman civil war
27 BCOctavian becomes Roman Emperor Augustus
AD 313Edict of Milan: Constantine accepts Christianity
AD 395Roman Empire divides in two
AD 410Rome sacked by Alaric, king of the Visigoths
AD 476Last western Roman emperor deposed

Key Dates in Europe’s Middle Ages

The Middle Ages in European history have a bad press, as if everyone was barbaric and always burning witches and torturing people. But it was a time when Europeans achieved their most breathtaking achievements in art and architecture, and set in place much of the thinking and ideas we rely on today.

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YearEvent
529St Benedict founds the monastery of Monte Cassino
711Muslim invasion of Spain
732Charles Martel defeats Arabs at Battle of Poitiers
787Viking raid on Lindisfarne
800Charlemagne crowned ‘Roman’ emperor in the
west
1054Schism between ‘Catholic’ Roman Church and
‘Orthodox’ Greek Church
1066Norman conquest of England
1071Battle of Manzikert: Turks overrun Anatolia
1099Jerusalem falls to First Crusade
1204Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople
1241Mongols overrun eastern Europe
1337Start of the Hundred Year’s War
AD 313Edict of Milan: Constantine accepts Christianity
AD 395Roman Empire divides in two
AD 410Rome sacked by Alaric, king of the Visigoths
AD 476Last western Roman emperor deposed
1346Black Death arrives in western Europe
1309–1417The Great Schism
1450Gutenberg’s printing press
1453Fall of Constantinople
1492Fall of Granada: Moors expelled from Spain; Columbus lands in
the New World

Key Dates in Early Modern Europe

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Early Modern Europe underwent some dramatic twists with empires expanding and religious conflicts raging while science and technology developments made leaps and bounds. Here are some key milestones during this time.

YearEvent
1517Luther’s 95 theses launch the Reformation
1526Battle of Mohács: Ottoman Turks conquer Hungary
1581Dutch declare independence from Spain
1618–48Thirty Years’ War
1683Turks defeated outside Vienna
1703Peter I founds St Petersburg
1713Treaty of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession
1740Frederick II of Prussia invades Silesia

Key Dates in Modern Europe

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A great number of decisive political wars and revolutions took place in the last two centuries; struggles for independence and liberation, industrialisation, nationalism and European integration. Take look at some of the landmark events that changed Europe in Modern history.

YearEvent
1789Fall of the Bastille: start of the French Revolution
1804Napoleon crowned Emperor of France
1815Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon exiled to St Helena
1829Greece wins independence from Ottoman Empire
1833Slavery abolished in British Empire
1848Revolutions across Europe
1854–6Crimean War
1860–1Unification of Italy
1861Alexander II emancipates Russian serfs
1870–1Franco-Prussian War; proclamation of German empire
1914–18First World War
1917Russian Revolution
1919Treaty of Versailles
1936–9Spanish Civil War
1939–45Second World War
1941Operation Barbarossa: German invasion of Russia
1949Formation of NATO
1956Soviet invasion of Hungary; Suez crisis
1957Treaty of Rome founds the European Economic Community
1975Democracy restored in Spain
1985Mikhail Gorbachev in power in Russia
1989Fall of the Berlin Wall: anti-communist revolutions across
eastern Europe
1992Yugoslavia civil war starts
2002Adoption of the Euro
2004European Union enlarges to 25 member states