European History

Discover the History of Europe with our interactive detailed timeline.

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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