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History of Europe. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the ...
2007 – Accession of Bulgaria and Romania. 2009 – Lisbon Treaty abolishes the three pillars of the European Union. 2013 – Accession of Croatia. 2016 – UK holds a Membership Referendum and votes to leave the European Union. 2017 – Negotiations between UK and the EU officially started in June 2017.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957. Despite several significant transoceanic and transcontinental explorations by European civilizations in the preceding centuries ...
History of theEuropean Union. The European Union is a geo-political entity, created in 1993, covering a large portion of the European continent. It is founded upon numerous treaties and has undergone expansions and secessions that have taken it from six member states to 27, a majority of the states in Europe.
412-413 War of Heraclianus. 409–418 Gothic War (409–418) 409–417: Bagaudae Revolt, uprising in the Loire valley and Brittany. 416–418 Gothic War in Spain (416-418) 420 Battle of the Nervasos Mountains. 422 Battle of Tarraco. 424–425 Roman civil war ( Joannes vs Galla Placidia) 425–426: Gothic revolt of Theodoric I.
Technological periods. Prehistory. Paleolithic ( Lower, Middle, Upper) Mesolithic ( Epipaleolithic) Neolithic. Chalcolithic (or "Eneolithic", "Copper Age") Ancient history (The Bronze and Iron Ages are not part of prehistory for all regions and civilizations who had adopted or developed a writing system.) Bronze Age. Iron Age.
Early modern Europe. Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the mid 15th century to the late 18th century. Historians variously mark the beginning of the early modern period with the invention ...