Template:History of Europe Infobox

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History of Europe Timeline
360 BC	Plato attacks Athenian democracy in the Republic.
323 BC	Alexander the Great dies and his Macedonian Empire fragments.
44 BC	Julius Caesar is murdered. The Roman Republic drawing to a close.
27 BC	Establishment of the Roman Empire under Octavian.
330	Constantine makes Constantinople into his capital, a new Rome.
395	Following the death of Theodosius I, the Empire is permanently split into eastern and western halves.
527	Justinian I is crowned emperor of Byzantium.
800	Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor.
1054	Start of the East-West Schism, which divides the Christian church for centuries.
1066	Successful Norman Invasion of England by William the Conqueror.
1095	Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade.
1340	Black Death kills a third of Europe's population.
1337 - 1453	The Hundred Years War
1453	Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.
1492	Christopher Columbus lands in the New World.
1498	Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper in Milan, as the Renaissance flourishes.
1517	Martin Luther nails his demands for Reformation to the door of the church in Wittenberg.
1648	The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.
1789	The French Revolution.
1815	Following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte the Treaty of Vienna is signed.
1860s	Russia emancipates its serfs and Karl Marx completes the first volume of Das Kapital.
1914	Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated and World War One begins.
1945	The Second World War ends with Europe in ruins.
1989 - 1992	The Berlin Wall comes down and the Treaty of the European Union is signed in Maastricht.