20 events with tag "Europe"
500 BC
ID: 3661
Celtic expansion at height - Celts spread from Ireland to Turkey, distinctive art and culture
ID: 3661
400 BC
ID: 269
La Tène culture spreads - Celtic art and culture across Europe, skilled metalwork
ID: 269
387 BC
ID: 323
Celtic expansion at height - from Ireland to Turkey (Galatians), distinctive art and culture
ID: 323
370
ID: 4727
Huns appear in Europe - cross Volga River, destroy Alans, trigger Great Migration of Germanic tribes
ID: 4727
804
ID: 4097
Alcuin's impact assessed - saved classical learning, created educational system for medieval Europe
ID: 4097
900
ID: 5543
Magyar horsemen begin devastating raids across Europe reaching as far as Spain and Southern Italy
ID: 5543
1038
ID: 4867
Babylonian academies decline - Last major Gaon dies, center of Jewish life shifts to Spain and Europe
ID: 4867
1241
ID: 4743
Death of Ogedei Khan saves Europe - Mongol armies withdraw for succession kurultai, never return in force
ID: 4743
1551
ID: 3489
Jesuit Colleges established across Europe (1551-1556) - Messina, Palermo, Rome, German College - Free education attracts noble and merchant sons - Protestant observer: 'They steal our children's minds with sweetness'
ID: 3489
1600
ID: 5674
Maize cultivation spreads across Europe - grown in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy as animal feed and peasant food
ID: 5674
1614
ID: 3461
Fama Fraternitatis published in Kassel - Announces Brotherhood of Rosy Cross - Claims perfect knowledge of nature - 'Europe is pregnant and will bring forth a strong child'
ID: 3461
1615
ID: 5696
Coffee arrives in Venice from Ottoman Empire - first European coffee, Venetian merchants control early trade
ID: 5696
1697
ID: 5987
Peter the Great begins Grand Embassy to Europe - travels incognito to learn shipbuilding and Western technology
ID: 5987
1703
ID: 5989
May 27, 1703
Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg on swampland - 'Window to Europe' built at cost of thousands of lives
ID: 5989
1845
ID: 853
Telegraph lines spread rapidly across America and Europe
ID: 853
1883
ID: 1048
Major cholera pandemic kills 250,000 Europeans
ID: 1048
1967
ID: 1835
First CEDADE international conference with representatives from 8 European countries
ID: 1835
1970
ID: 1870
CEDADE begins publishing Holocaust denial materials across Europe and Latin America
ID: 1870
1991
ID: 2086
Maastricht Treaty negotiations - German economic integration of Europe
ID: 2086
2015
ID: 3272
Refugee crisis peaks - destabilizes European nation-states while strengthening EU centralization
ID: 3272