of History
c. 1450-1000 BC: Egypt as world power
884-612 BC: Assyrian Empire
612-539 BC: Neo-Babylonian Empire
539-332 BC: Medo-Persian Empire
332-168 BC: Greek Empire
168 BC-476 AD: The Roman Empire
Division of the Roman Empire:
330 AD: Emperor Constantine moves the seat of the Roman emperors and government to Constantinople in the East.
476 AD: Fall of the Western Roman Empire
538 AD: Emperor Justinian defeats the three Arian Goth kingdoms. Temporary re-unification of east and west.
756 AD: Pepin III defeats the Lombards. Establishment of the Papal States in Italy.
800 AD - 1806: Holy Roman Empire in the west.
1099: The Latin (Crusader) Kingdom of Jerusalem (Le Royaume Latin de Jérusalem)
1232: The Holy Roman Inquisition is established by Pope Gregory IX and the emperor Frederick II.
1453: Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. End of the eastern (Roman) Byzantine Empire.
1492: Columbus discovers America. Subsequent establishment and expansion of the European Colonial world empires (Britain, France, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, etc).
1519: The Protestant Reformation begins.
1540: Establishment of the Catholic Jesuit order (Society of Jesus) for the destruction of the Reformation and the introduction of Catholicism into the colonial lands conquered by eg. France, Spain and Portugal, etc.
1776: Foundation of America based on principles of liberty of conscience and democracy.
1789: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
1806: End of the Holy Roman Empire.
1814-15: The Congress of Vienna
1848: The year of the revolutions across Europe.
1914-18: World War I
1917: The Russian Revolution and the foundation of the Soviet Union (USSR).
1922: End of the Ottoman Empire.
1929: Establishment of the Vatican State in Rome as a sovereign state separate from Italy. Lateran Treaty signed with Mussolini.
1939-45: World War II and the subsequent post-War collapse of the European colonial world empires.
1945/6: Establishment of the United Nations (UN), the World Bank and the IMF.
1949: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
1957: The Treaty of Rome establishes the European Community (EEC).
1964: The Vatican State (Holy See) gains 'Permanent Observer' status at the United Nations.
1984: The United States under the Reagan administration accords formal diplomatic recognition to the Vatican State (Holy See).
1989-91: Collapse of the Soviet empire (former Warsaw Pact nations) in E. Europe.
1993: The EEC becomes the European Union (EU).
2004: 10 new member states join the European Union, including 8 from the former Soviet bloc nations of E. Europe. 7 new member states join the NATO strategic alliance. The still ongoing re-unification of East and West.
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