History of Europe

History of Europe / European History

1. Roman Empire (60 BCE-160CE)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs2. Overview
3. From Republic to Dictatorship: Caesar to Octavian (50–30 BCE) 4. Early Principate: Augustus and Tiberius (30 BCE–37 CE)
5. Caligula and Claudius (37-54): Pitfalls and Regularization of Personal Rule 6. Nero and the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ (54-69)
7. Short-Lived Flavian Dynasty: 69-96 CE 8. Rome’s Halcyon Days: 96-161 CE

2. Fall of Rome (150CE-475CE)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People and Events2. Overview
3. From Tranquility to Crisis: Marcus Aurelius to Diocletian (161-285 CE) 4. Attempts to Salvage the Roman Order: Diocletian and Constantine (285-337 CE)
5. The Germanic Tribes to 375 6. Germanic Tribes and Decomposition of Roman Order (375-410)
7. Disappearance of the Western Roman Empire I: 410-440 8. Disappearance of the Western Roman Empire and Emergence of the First Medieval Political Order (440-493)

3. Early Middle Ages (475-1000)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People & Events2. Overview
3. Post-Roman Europe I: Italy and Southern Gaul From Theodoric to the Lombards (488-600) 4. Eastern Rome from Marcian to Justin: Doorstep of Byzantium (450-527)
5. From Eastern Roman Revanche to Byzantium under Siege I: Justinian I (527-565) 6. From Eastern Roman Revanche to Byzantium under Siege II: Justin II to Heraclius (565-641)
7. Islamic Expansion and Political Evolution 632-1000 8. From Roman Gaul to the Merovingian Kingdom of the Franks (450-511)
9. Clovis’ Sons and Creeping Merovingian Anarchy (511-640) 10. Charlemagne and the Carolingian State(s) to 843
11. End of the First European Order: Foreign Invasions, Carolingian Obsolescence, and Doorstep of the High Middle Ages (840s-950s) 12. Political Arrangements in Europe towards the Second Millennium
13. Christianity, 325-650s: Conversion, the Papacy, and Monasticism I 14. Christianity, 650s-950s: Conversion, the Papacy, and Monasticism II

4. High Middle Ages (1000-1200)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs2. Overview
3. Getting There: Byzantium, 650-870 4. Byzantium Triumphant, Byzantium Faltering: 960-1071
5. Germany, 920-1075: The Saxon Empire to the Investiture Controversy 6. England from Saxon Kingdom to Norman Conquest: 925-1135
7. The Crusades: 1095-1204 8. Byzantium, 1081-1261: Decay, Defeats, Latin Betrayal, and Survival
9. France & England, 987-1226: Capets and Angevins 10. France, 1226-1270: Louis IX
11. Germany in the Hohenstaufen Era: 1137-1250 12. Christianity: Expansion, Monastic and Papal Reform, Clash with Secular Rulers (910-1122)
13. Reconquista 1000-1250 14. Christianity, 1130-1244: Spiritual Invigoration, the Papal Monarchy, and Heresy

5. Italian Renaissance (1330-1550)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs2. Overview
3. Italy in the Mid-Fourteenth Century: The Rise of Humanism 4. Florence and the Medici (1397-1495)
5. Rome: Papal Control and Early Resurrection (1400-1484) 6. Rome: The Depths of Corruption and the Rise of the Golden Age
7. Venice and Milan (1300-1499) 8. Art in the Early Renaissance (1330-1450)
9. Art in the High Renaissance (1450-1550) 10. The Rise of Printing: Literature in the Renaissance (1350-1550)
11. Women in the Renaissance 12. The Waning of the Renaissance (1499-1550)

6. The Enlightenment (1650–1800)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs2. Overview
3. The Roots of the Enlightenment 4. The French Enlightenment
5. The English Enlightenment 6. Skepticism and Romanticism
7. The German Enlightenment 8. Other Arenas of the Enlightenment
9. The Legacy of the Enlightenment

7. The Scientific Revolution (1550-1700)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People & Qs 2. Overview
3. Revival of the Study of Nature (16th Century) 4. New Astronomy (1510-1600)
5. Philosophy Descartes and Bacon 6. Advancements in Mathematics (1591-1655)
7. Physics (1590-1666) 8. Biology (1600-1680)
9. Re-Formation of the Heavens 10. Newton and Comprehensive Understanding (1687)
11. Cooperation in Science: The Role of Royal Society (1662-1700) 12. Prevailing Superstition (1550-1700)

8. The French Revolution (1789–1799)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs 2. Overview
3. France’s Financial Crisis: 1783–1788 4. Estates-General: 1789
5. National Assembly: 1789–1791 6. Escalating Violence: 1791–1792
7. Reign of Terror and Thermidorian Reaction: 1792-1795 8. The Directory: 1795–1799

9. Napoleonic Europe (1799-1815)

1. Brief Overview People Events & Qs 2. Overview
3. The Consulate (1799-1804) 4. Coalitions and a Brief Peace (1795-1803)
5. Third Coalition (1804-1807) 6. The Continental System (1806-1807)
7. Spain and Austria Fight Back (1807-1809) 8. Napoleon’s Vast Empire (1809-1811)
9. German Nationalism and Romanticism Under French Rule 10. Prussia in the Napoleonic Era
11. Napoleon’s Defeat (1810-1814) 12. Congress of Vienna and the Hundred Days (1815)

10. Europe (1815-1848)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs 2. Overview
3. Britain’s Industrial Revolution (1780-1850) 4. Metternich and his Congresses (1815-1822)
5. Battling Ideologies (1815-1830) 6. Europe (1815-1848) Romanticism
7. Europe Change in the 1830s (1827-1832) 8. Bourgeoisie and Chartism (1830s and 1840s)
9. Europe 1848 Revolution: Paris 10. Europe 1848 Revolutions: The Austrian Empire
11. Germany and Prussia in 1848

11. Europe (1848-1871)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs 2. Overview
3. The Revolutions of 1848 4. The Crimean War (1854-1855)
5. Italian Unification (1848-1870) 6. German Unification (1850-1871)
6. The Second Empire in France (1852-1870) 7. Europe (1848-1871) Victorian England
8. Europe “Reform” in Russia (1855-1881) 10. Europe Civil War in the United States (1861-1865)
11. Europe New Ideas and Changing Assumptions in European Culture and Politics

12. Europe 1871-1914

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs 2. Overview
3. Europe Political Change in Britain (1832-1900) 4. Europe Politics in Germany (1871-1914)
5. The “Affairs” of the French Third Republic (1871-1914) 6. Conservatism in Austria (1871-1914)
7. The Scramble for Africa (1876-1914) 8. Conflict in Africa: the Boer War (1895-1902)
9. Imperialism in Asia (1830-1900) 10. The Balance of Power in Europe (1871-1914)
11. Crises in the Balkans and the Road to Destruction (1874-1912)

13. The Russian Revolution (1917–1918)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs 2. Overview
3. A Century of Unrest 4. February Revolution
5. Lenin and the Bolsheviks 6. Summer of 1917
7. October Revolution 8. Aftermath

14. World War I (1914–1919)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs 2. Overview
3. Road to War 4. Opening Moves
5. Germany’s Assault on France 6. The War at Sea
7. War in the Air 8. War in Near East
9. War of Attrition in Europe 10. United States Enters the War
11. Russia Exits the War 12. Endgame
13. Collapse of Central Powers

15. The Interwar Years (1919-1938)

1. Brief Overview Timeline Events People & Qs2. Overview
3. Economics During the Inter-War Years (1919-1938) 4. League of Nations (1920-1935)
5. Attempts at Reconciliation and Disarmament (1921-1930) 6. The Soviet Union During the Inter-War Years (1924-1935)
7. Eastern Europe During the Inter-War Years (1919-1938) 8. Italian Fascism during the Inter-War Years (1919-1938)
9. Britain During the Inter-War Years (1919-1938) 10. France During the Inter-War Years (1919-1938)
11. Spanish Civil War (1931-1939) 12. Nazi Germany (1919-1938)

16. World War II (1939–1945)

1. Brief Overview People Terms & Qs 2. Overview
3. Invasion of France 4. Start of the War
5. Battle of Britain 6. Italy and the Mediterranean
7. Invasion of Russia 8. Japan and Pearl Harbor
9. The Nazis’ “Final Solution” 10. Total War in the Pacific
11. Strengthening Alliance 12. Southeast Asia
13. North Africa and Invasion of Italy 14. German Retreat from Russia
15. Allied Invasion of France 16. Fall of Germany
17. Fall of Japan

 
History of Europe / European History
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