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The European heritage
- Ancient Greece
- The Roman Empire
- Christianity
- - the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and the other patristic philosophers[2]: a doctrine of passive obediance to authority
- - the art of Michelangelo and Benini [3]
- - the politics of the Holy Roman Empire[4] and the reign of Charlemagne
- Islam
- - the mathematics and poetry of the Abbasid culture[5][6],
- - Omar Khayyam.
- The Enlightenment
- - the philosophical writings of Denis Diderot, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau that gave priority to the power of reason over the claims of authority.
- - the scientific method: Galileo on the importance of observation, and Isaac Newton on the rules of reasoning.
The development of the nation states
- 1648: Treaty of Westphalia
- - created the Westphalian System[1] of European sovereign states.
- 1663: Thomas Newcomen[2] (1663 - 1729) and the development of the steam engine.
- 1689: The Glorious Revolution establishes the duties of the monarchy
- 1690: John Locke Two Treatises on Government
- 1713: Treaty of Utrecht
- - separates France from Spain; cedes the Spanish Netherlands to Austria; cedes Gibraltar and parts of Canada to Britain
- 1789: French Revolution
- 1799-1815 Napoleonic Wars[7]
- 1806: Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and formation of the Federation of the Rhine.
- 1815: Congress of Vienna
- - redefined the territorial map of Europe following the defeat of Napoleon; including the creation of the Confederation of Germany
- 1867: Austro-Hungarian Compromise
- - united Austria with Hungary.
- 1914-18 First World War
- 1917: October Revolution
- - the seizure of power by Lenin's Bolshevics, from the provisional government that had been formed by the revolutionary uprising of of February 1917.
- 1918: The collapse of Austro-Hungary, and the proclamation of the separate republics of Austria and Hungary.
- 1919: Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)
- - concluded the treaties of Versailles (with Germany), St Germain (with Austria), Trianon (with Hungary), Neuilly (with Bulgaria), Sèvres and Lausanne (with Turkey).
- 1929-35: Great Depression
- 1939-45 Second World War
- 1945: Partition of Germany
- 1946: Paris Peace Conference (1946-1947)
- - concluded peace treaties with Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Rumania and Italy.
The development of a union of nation states
- 1946: Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech[8] - the east/west division of Europe
- 1949: North Atlantic Treaty[9] - created NATO
- Treaty of London (1949) - created the Council of Europe[10]
- 1953: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- 1954: Brussels Treaty[11] - created the Western Union
- 1957: Treaty of Rome - created the European Common Market
- 1973: Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe created the OSCE
- 1975: Signing of the Helsinki Final Act[12]
- 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 1990: German reunification
- 1991: Collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars
- 1992: Treaty of Maastricht - created the European Union
- 1994: Opening of the Channel tunnel
- 1997: Treaty of Amsterdam
- 2003: Treaty of Nice
- 2008-10: Great Recession
- 2009: Treaty of Lisbon
- 2010: Eurozone crisis
References
- ↑ Pax Romna
- ↑ Medieval Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009
- ↑ Kenneth Clark: Grandeur and Obedience (episode 7 of the BBC series Civilisation, video of the BBC 1969 broadcast)
- ↑ History of the Holy Roman Empire, historyworld.net
- ↑ The Abbasid Caliphs, BBC iplayer, 2006
- ↑ Keith Devlin: The Mathematical Legacy of Islam, American Mathematical Association, 2002
- ↑ Napoeonic Wars, Historyof War.org
- ↑ Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speechl
- ↑ North Atlantic Treaty, official text]
- ↑ Statute of the Council of Europe, 1949
- ↑ The Brussels Treaty, European Navigator, 2006
- ↑ Signing of the Helsinki Final Act, OSCE.2010