| 1785 & 1786 |
Grimm Brothers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm were born |
| 1789 |
The first clear expression of nationalism came with the French Revolution |
| 1797 |
Napoleon invades Italy; Napoleonic wars begin |
| 1804 |
Civil Code or Napoleonic Code removed all privileges based on birth & established equality |
| 1807 |
Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini was born |
| 1812 |
Grimm brothers published their first collection of tales |
| 1813 |
Napoleon lost the battle of Leipzig |
| 1814-1815 |
Fall of Napoleon; the Vienna Peace Settlement |
| 1815 |
The defeat of Napoleon by Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria |
| 1821 |
Greek struggle for independence begins |
| 1821 |
Nationalism sparked off amongst the Greeks |
| 1824 |
English poet Lord Byron died of fever |
| 1824 |
Massacre at Chios, Eugene Delacroix |
| July 1830 |
The first upheaval took place in France |
| 1831 |
Giuseppe Mazzini was sent to exile for attempting a revolution in Liguria |
| 1831 |
An armed rebellion took place against Russian rule |
| 1832 |
Treaty of Constantinople recognised Greece as an independent nation |
| 1833 |
The founding of Young Europe in Berne |
| 1834 |
A Customs Union or Zollverein was formed at the initiative of Prussia |
| 1845 |
Weavers in Silesia led a revolt against contractors |
| 1848 |
French artist named Frédéric Sorrieu prepared a series of four prints visualising ‘Democratic and social Republics’ |
| 1848 |
Revolutions in Europe; artisans, industrial workers and peasants revolt against economic hardships; middle classes demand constitutions and representative governments; Italians, Germans, Magyars, Poles, Czechs, etc. demand nation-states |
| 18 May 1848 |
831 elected representatives marched in a festive procession to take their places in the Frankfurt parliament |
| 1859 |
Tactful diplomatic alliance with France engineered by Cavour, Sardinia-Piedmont succeeded in defeating the Austrian forces |
| 1859-1870 |
Unification of Italy |
| 1861 |
Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed king of united Italy |
| 1866-1871 |
Unification of Germany |
| 1867 |
Habsburg rulers granted more autonomy to the Hungarians |
| January 1871 |
Prussian king, William I, was proclaimed German Emperor in a ceremony held at Versailles |
| 1905 |
Slav nationalism gathers force in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires |
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