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0. The 100 crucial dates on European History Flashcards

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1 January 1820

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Riego Uprising.

Military start imposing the Liberal Regime

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26-29 July 1830

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New French Revolution. Definitive abolition of the Absolutist Monarchy in France (Monarchie de Juillet)

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21 January 1848

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Publication in London of the Manifest of the Communist Party

Marx and Engels

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1848

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Liberal and social revolutions burst all over Europe

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17 March 1861

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Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy

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23 September 1862

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Bismarck at the head of the Prussian government

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1-2 September 1870

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French defeat at Sedan. End of the Franco-Prussian War

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18 January 1871

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Proclamation in Versailles of the German (2nd Reich)

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18 March - 18 May 1871

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French Commune

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10
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1884

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Beginning of the Berlin Conference regulating the European colonisation in Africa. Height of European Colonial Imperialism

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28 June 1914

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**Assasintion in Sarajevo **of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Throne

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28 July 1914

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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Beginning of World War I

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13
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3rd January 1916

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Sykes Picot Agreements

Europeans decide the partition of the Ottoman Empire

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14
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7 November 1917

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Russian “October” Revolution

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11 November 1918

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Signature of the Armistice between the Axis and the Allies. End of World War I.

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1920

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First meeting of the League of Nations

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17
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21 January 1924

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Death of Lenin

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18
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11 February 1929

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Lateran Treaty. Creation of the Vatican State (Mussolini)

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19
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5 September 1929

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Briand’s Proposal for a European Union

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20
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October 1929

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Wall Street Crash

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21
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30 January 1933

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**Adolf Hitler **appointed chancellor of Germany

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23 March 1933

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Enabling Act

Hitler

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July 1936

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Beginning of the Moscow Trials.

Stalin gets rid of all soviet revolutionaries.

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1 September 1939

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Germy invades Poland. Beginning of World War II.

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3 February 1943

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German troops surrender in Stalingrad

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8 May 1945

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Germany signs unconditional surrender. End of World War II.

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3 April 1948

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US Presiden Harry Truman signs the Economic Recovey Act, better known as the **Marshall Plan **(proposed in 1947)

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7 - 11 May 1948

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Congress of the Hague (Project of European Federal Integration)

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24 June 1948

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Beginning of the **Berlin Blockade **ordered by Stalin (end 12 May 1949)

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4 April 1949

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Foundation of NATO

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18 April 1949

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Ireland becomes a Republic

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5 May 1949

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Treaty of London. Creation of the Council of Europe

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23 May 1949

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Approval of the Basic Law for the German Federal Republic

(Deutsche Bundesrepublik, DBR. After 1968: BRD: Bundesrepublik Deutschland)

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7 October 1949

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Creation of the German Democratic Republic

Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR

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18 April 1951

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Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherland sign the Treaty of Paris, which constitutes the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), entering into force on 23 July 1952.

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9 May 1950

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R. Schuman as France’s Foreign Minister makes Schuman Declaration.

European integration (Community Method) process gets underway

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27 May 1952

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Signing of the** European Defense Community (EDC)** Treaty.

Ratification rejected by the French National Assembly

38
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5 March 1953

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Death of Stalin

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29 October - 7 November 1956

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Suez Crisis. The end of European colonialism (France and the UK)

The US and USSR decide the world order

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25 March 1957

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The six sign the Treaties of Rome, which constitutes the European Economic Community (ECC) and the European Atomic Enery Community (EURATOM)

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4 January 1960

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Creation of the EFTA, an initiative of the UK

European Free Trade Association (Asociación Europea de Libre Comercio)

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13 August 1961

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Beginning of the construction of the Berlin Wall

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April 1965

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Executive Merger Treaty. Signing in Brussels by the six member states of the three European Communities (ECSC, EEC and EAEC-EURATOM)

By virtue of these agreements the Communities become subject to just one executive, a single Commission and a single Council. It enters into force on 1 July 1967.

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30 January 1966

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Luxembourg Compromise.

The six agree that unanimous votes (rather than by majority) shall be required to make decisions affecting essential issues.

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1 January 1973

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First enlargement of the European Communities. Three new states join: Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Begins the “Europe of the Nine.”

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1975

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Creation of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

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7-10 May 1979

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First elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage. This first democratic Parliament is constituted on the following July 18.

Since the elections take place every 5 years.

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1 July 1987

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The Single European Act enters into force

Signed February 1986

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9 November 1989

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

50
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12 September 1990

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Signing in Moscow of the Two Plus Four Agreement.

England, France, the United States and the Soviet Union renounce the rights they had vis-a-vis Germany since 1945.

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21 December 1991

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Dissolution of the USSR (Alma-Ata Protocol)

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1 November 1993

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Enters into force the European Union Treaty

(Signed in Maastricht, Netherlands, on February 7 1992)

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1 January 2002

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The euro enters into force

54
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1 December 2009

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The Treaty of Lisbon enters into force

55
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23 June 2016

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Brexit referendum

56
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31 January 2020

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The UK leaves the European Union

57
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24 February 2022

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

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