Grade 10 - Nationalism in Europe Timeline

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TIMELINE

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

1707 – Act of Union – Between England and Scotland- resulted in the formation of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain.

1789 – The French Revolution occurred.

1797 – Napoleon invades Italy, Napoleonic wars begin.

1801 – Ireland was forcibly incorporated into the United Kingdom.

1804 – Napoleonic Code or the Civil Code was introduced, abolishing privileges based on
birth. Upheld equality before law and secured right to property.

1814-1815 – Defeat of Napoleon by European powers—Britain, Prussia, Russia and Austria.

1815 – The European powers met at Vienna to draw up a settlement for Europe. The treaty
of Vienna was signed.

1815 – Conservative regimes were set up.

1821 – Greek struggle for independence begins.

1830 – The July Revolution sparked an uprising in Brussels, which led to Belgium breaking
away from the United Kingdom of Netherland.

1830s – Giuseppe Mazzini had sought to put together a coherent programme for a Unitary
Italian Republic. Economic hardship in Europe.

1832 – Treaty of Constantinople was signed and Greece was recognized as an independent
nation.

1848 – Renunciation of the French Monarch.

1848 – 831 elected representatives marched towards the Frankfurt parliament and drafted
the constitution for a German nation.

1852-1860 – Chief Minister Cavour became the Prime Minister of Piedmont of Italy.

1859-1870 – Unification of Italy.

1861 – Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed King of United Italy.


1864 – Bismarck fought a war against Denmark and took control of Schleswig.

1866-1871 – Unification of Germany. (An assembly comprising the princes of the German
states, representatives of the army, important Prussian ministers (including the Chief
Minister Bismarck) gathered in the Hall of mirrors at Versailles to proclaim the new German
Empire headed by Kaiser William I of Prussia.)

1867 – Habsburg rulers granted more autonomy to the Hungarians.

1905 – Slav nationalism gathers force in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empire

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