Major Events in European History 1900-2022

 

1900-Bernhard von Bulow, German Chancellor

1901-Queen Victoria Dies

1901-Social Revolutionary Party Founded in Russia

1903-Entente Cordiale Established

1903-King and Queen of Serbia Murdered

1903-Russian Socialist Party Splits Into Two

1903-Turks Massacre Bulgarians

1905-Greeks Revolt in Crete

1905-Revolts in Russia

1905-Norway Separates From Sweden

1906-Reform in Russia

1906-Battleship Dreadnought Launched

1906-Universal Suffrage in Finland

1907-Peace Conference at the Hague

1908-Austria Annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina

1908-Young Turks Revolt

1908-King Carlos and Crown Prince Assassinated

1908-Bulgaria Declares Independence

1909-Sultan Abdul Deposed

1909-Martial Law in Spain

1910-Revolution in Portugal

1911-Agadir Criss

1911-Tripolitan War

1912-First Balkan War

1913-Suffragettes in England

1913-Second Balkan War

1914-Archduke Francis Ferdinand Assassinated

1914-Austria Declares War on Serbia

1914-Germany Declares War

1914-Germany Invades Belgium

1917-Russian Revolution (Pt. I)

1917-Lenin Returns To Russia

1917-Bolshevik Revolution

1918-Wilson Announces 14 Point Plan

1918-Treaty of Brest Litovsk

1918-German Army Mutinies, Wilhelm II Abdicates, WWI Ends

1919-Versailles Peace Conference

1918-Polish Uprising

1919-White Russian Army Defeated

1919-Russo-Polish War

1920-Finland Gains Independence From USSR

1920-Ireland Granted Home Rule

1921-New Economic Program in USSR

1922-Irish Free State Established

1922-German Foreign Minister Assassinated

1922-Mussolini Seized Power in Italy

1923-France Occupies The Ruhr

1923-Munich Beer Putsch

1924-Lenin Dies

1925-Locarno Conference

1926-Piłsudski Seizes Power in Poland

1929-Stalin Enforces "Forced Collectivization"

1931-2nd Spanish Republic

1932-Lausanne Conference

1933-Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany- His Rise to Power

The Origins of the German Anti-Semitism

1933-Dachau Established

1934-Night of Long Knives

1934-King of Yugoslavia Assassinated

1934-Unrest in Austria, Dolfuss Assassinated

1934-Sergei Kirov Shot-Stalin Begins Purges

1935-Saar Becomes Part of Germany

1935-Germany Rejects Versailles Treaty

1936-Italy Invades Ethiopia

1936-Spanish Civil War Breaks Out

1936-Hitler Denounced Locarno Pact, Occupies Rhineland

1937-Italia-German Axis Announced

1937-Soviet High Command Purged

1938-Anshluss

1938-Munich Agreement

1938-Kristallnacht in Germany

1939-Madrid Surrenders

1939-Germans Enter Prague

1939-Soviet Germany Non-Aggression Treaty

1939-Germany Invades Poland

1939-1945 World War II

1945- Europe in 1945- A Devastated Land

1945- Punishment of Nazis Collaborators

1946-Republican Government Organized in Italy

1946-Verdicts at Nuremberg

1946-Greeks Vote For Return of Monarchy

1947-Truman Doctrine

1947-Marshall Plan Unvieled

1948-Communists Take Over Czechoslovakia

1948-Italian Elections

1948-Berlin Blockaded

1948-Soviets Recall Advisors From Yugoslavia

1949-Federal Republic Of Germany Created

1949-Ireland Becomes Independent

1949-NATO Founded

1949-Soviets Explode Atomic Bomb

1952-Czechoslovakia's Slanky Executed For High Treason

1952-King George VI Dies, Elizabeth Crowned Queen

1953-Stalin Dies

1954-Four Power Meeting (Berlin)

1955-Vienna Treaty Restores Austrian Independence

1955-Geneva Summit

1955-Germany Becomes Member of NATO

1956-Soviet Troops March Into Hungary

1957-Rome Treaty, Common Market Established

1957-Sputnik Launched By Russians

1958-Imry Nagy Executed in Hungary

1960-Failed Summit in Paris

1960-EFTA Formed

1961- French Approve Referendum on Algeria

1961-Vienna Summit

1961-Berlin Wall Constructed

1963-French Veto Britain's Joining Common Market

1964-Malta Becomes Independent

1966-France Withdraws From NATO Military Command

1967-Military Coup in Greece

1968-Rioting in France

1968-Spring Summer in Czechoslovakia

1968-Non-Proliferation Agreement Signed

1969-Juan Carlos Succeeds Franco

1969-Violence in Northern Ireland

1972- Summit Meeting in Washington

1972-Arab Terrorists Murder 11 Athletes at the Olympic Games

1972-Britain Takes Direct Control Over Northern Ireland

1974-Willy Brandt of West Germany Forced to Resign

1974-Military Government of Greece Resigns

1974-Military Coup in Portugal

1974-Revolt in Cyprus, Turkey Invades

1975-Franco Dies, Juan Carlos Takes Over

1979-SALT II

1980-Strikes Across Poland

1981-Pope John Paul II Shot Twice

1981-Mitterand Elected French Premier

1981-Martial Law in Poland

1983-US Deploys Pershing Missiles- Soviets Walk Out of Talks

1985-Gorbachev Becomes Soviet Leader

1986-Soviets Free Scharansky

1986-Soviet Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl

1986-Portugal and Spain Enter The Common Market

1987-Gorbachev Campaigns for Glasnost and Perostroika

1987-Reagan and Gorbachev Meet in Washington

1988- Gorbachev Announced Unilateral Troop Cuts

1989- Free Election Held For Soviet Congress of Deputies

1989-Solidarity Wins Election in Poland

1989-Berlin Wall Comes Down

1989-Havel Becomes President of Czechoslovakia

1989-Nicole Ceausecu Deposed in Romania

1990-Yeltsin President of Russian Federation

1990-Germany United

1991-Failed Kremlin Coup

1991-USSR Comes to a Formal End

1992-Maastricht Treaty Signed

1992-Civil War Begins in Former Yugoslavia

1994-NATO Shoots Down Serb Aircraft

1994-Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances

1996-Elections in Bosnia

1998-Northern Ireland Peace Agreement

1999-War in Kosovo

2001- Slobodan Milosevic Forced Out

2002- Euro Introduced

2004- Madrid Terror Bombing

2004- Ten Nations Join the EU

2004- Russia Invaded Georgia

2005- France and the Netherlands Reject EU Constitution

2005- London Bombed

2009-2014 European Sovereign Debt Crisis

2014- Russia Seizes Crimea

2015 Paris Terror Attack

2018 Royal Wedding

2018-Elections in Turkey

2020-Brexit

2022-Russia Invades Ukraine

 

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