500 Important Dates in the History of Europe and the West

Do you get lost in the flow of historical eras and events?
This book will become your reliable guide: 500 key dates that shaped the development of the Western world from Antiquity to the 21st century.
Even a beginner reader will understand how philosophical currents, cultural turning points, and fateful battles, step by step, led Europe to modernity.

Where did the movement begin that carried European civilization from the Athenian Acropolis to the Large Hadron Collider? What ideas, discoveries, and changes formed the West as we know it in the 21st century?
The history of Europe and the Western world is not only a string of wars, battles, negotiations, and coronations. It is also a shift in worldviews and cultural paradigms: from Stoicism to existentialism, from Romanticism to postmodernism. In front of you unfolds a sweeping panorama of nearly three thousand years—compactly compiled into 500 of the most important dates.

This book will help even a newcomer see the logic in the apparent chaos of events and understand that behind every upheaval there was invariably growth, renewal, and forward motion.