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A Guide to the European Union
European Milestones
| 476 |
Fall of the Roman Empire |
| 800 |
Coronation of Charlemagne |
| 843 |
Treaty of Verdun - End of Charlemagne's Empire |
| 1355-1683 |
Growth of Ottoman Empire |
| 1612-1648 |
Thirty Years War |
| 1789- |
French Revolution |
| 1815 |
Battle of Waterloo |
| 1859- 1870 |
Unification of Italy |
| 1871 |
Unification of Germany |
| 1914-1918 |
The Great War |
| 1936-1939 |
Spanish Civil War |
| 1939-1942 |
World War II |
| 1950 |
Schuman Declaration |
| 1951 |
European Coal and Steel Community established (Treaty of Paris) |
| 1957 |
European Economic Community & Euratom established (Treaty of Rome) Germany, France, Italy & Benelux |
| 1973 |
First Enlargement of European Community (UK, Denmark & Ireland) |
| 1981 |
Second Enlargement (Greece) |
| 1986 |
Third Enlargement (Spain & Portugal) |
| 1986 |
Single European Act |
| 1989 |
Fall of the Berlin Wall |
| 1992 |
Treaty on European Union (Maastricht) signed |
| 1995 |
Fourth Enlargement (Austria, Sweden, Finland) |
| 1997 |
Treaty of Amsterdam signed |
| 1999 |
Economic and Monetary Union begins |
| 2002 |
Introduction of euro finalised |
| 2004 |
Fifth enlargement - ten new members admitted: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia |
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