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Question 1

1820, 1 January

Answer 1

Riego Uprising. Military start imposing the Liberal Regime. Colonel Rafael de Riego against the absolutist rule of Ferdinand VII.

Question 2

1830 26-29 July

Answer 2

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

Question 3

1848, 21 January

Answer 3

Publication in London of the Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) + Liberal and social revolutions burst all over Europe.

Question 4

1861, 17 March

Answer 4

Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy

Question 5

1862, 23 September

Answer 5

Bismarck at the head of the Prussian government.

Question 6

1870, 1/2 September

Answer 6

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

Question 7

1871, 18 January

Answer 7

Proclamation in Versailles of the German Empire (2nd Reich).

Question 8

1871, 18 March-28 May

Answer 8

French Commune

Question 9

1884

Answer 9

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

Question 10

1914, 28 June

Answer 10

Assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian ‘Throne

Question 11

1914, 28 July

Answer 11

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

Question 12

1916, 3d January

Answer 12

Sykes Picot Agreements. Europeans decide the partition of the Ottoman Empire

Question 13

1917, 7 November

Answer 13

Russian “October” Revolution

Question 14

1918, 11 November

Answer 14

Signature of the Armistice between the Axis and the Allies. End of WWI

Question 15

1920

Answer 15

First meeting of the League of Nations

Question 16

1924, 21 January

Answer 16

Death of Lenin

Question 17

1929, 11 February

Answer 17

Lateran Treaty. Creation of the Vatican State (Mussolini).

Question 18

1929, 5 sept

Answer 18

Briand’s Proposal for a European Union

Question 19

1929, October

Answer 19

Wall Street Crash

Question 20

1933, 30 January

Answer 20

Adolph Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany.

Question 21

1933, 23 March

Answer 21

Enabling Act (passed to enact new laws without the consent of the German Parliament).

Question 22

1936, July

Answer 22

Beginning of the Spanish Civil War (until 1s April 1939).

Question 23

1936, August

Answer 23

Beginning of the Moscow Trials. Stalin gets rid of all soviet revolutionaries.

Question 24

1939, 1 September

Answer 24

Germany invades Poland. Beginning of World War II.

Question 25

1943, 3 February

Answer 25

German troops surrender in Stalingrad.

Question 26

1945, 8 May

Answer 26

Germany signs unconditional surrender. End of World War II

Question 27

1948, 3 April

Answer 27

US President Harry 'Truman signs the Economic Recovery Act better known as the Marshall Plan (Proposed in 1947).

Question 28

1948, 7-11 May

Answer 28

Congress of the Hague (Project of European Federal Integration)

Question 29

1948, 24 june

Answer 29

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

Question 30

1949, 4 April

Answer 30

Foundation of NATO.

Question 31

1949, 18 April

Answer 31

Ireland becomes a Republic.

Question 32

1949, 5 May

Answer 32

Treaty of London. Creation of the Council of Europe

Question 33

1949, 23 May

Answer 33

Approval of the Basic Law for the German Federal Republic. (Deutsche Bundesrepublik, DBR. After 1968: BRD: Bundesrepublik Deutschland)

Question 34

1949, 7 October

Answer 34

Creation of the German Democratic Republic. (Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR)

Question 35

1950, 9 May

Answer 35

R. Schuman as France's Foreign Minister makes what was going to be known as the Schuman Declaration (Community Method) process gets underway.

Question 36

1951, 18 April

Answer 36

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

Question 37

1952, 27 May

Answer 37

Signing of the European Defense Community (EDC) Treaty. Ratification rejected by the French National Assembly.

Question 38

1953, 5 March

Answer 38

Death of Stalin

Question 39

1956, 29 October - 7 November

Answer 39

Suez Crisis. The end of European colonialism (France and the UK). The US and USSR decide the world order.

Question 40

1957, 25 March.

Answer 40

The six sign the Treaties of Rome, which constitutes the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).

Question 41

1960, 4 January

Answer 41

Creation of the EFTA, an initiative of the UK.