Comparative history timeline

China vs Europe: Comparative History Timeline

212 periods and events, 5001 BCE – today, by century.

Periods and events

Century	China	Europe
5100–5001 BCE	Neolithic cultures (Yangshao and Longshan)新石器文化（仰韶与龙山）5001–2101 BCE
3100–3001 BCE		Neolithic Britain (Stonehenge)新石器时代不列颠（巨石阵）3001–1601 BCE · UK Minoan civilization米诺斯文明3001–1101 BCE · Greece
2900–2801 BCE	Three Sovereigns (legendary)三皇（传说）2853–2600 BCE
2600–2501 BCE	Five Emperors (legendary)五帝2600–2070 BCE
2100–2001 BCE	Xia夏2070–1600 BCE
1800–1701 BCE		Mycenaean Greece迈锡尼文明1751–1051 BCE · Greece
1600–1501 BCE	Shang商1600–1046 BCE
1200–1101 BCE		Phoenician and Greek colonies腓尼基与希腊殖民地1101–536 BCE · Spain Greek Dark Ages希腊黑暗时代1101–801 BCE · Greece
1100–1001 BCE	Western Zhou西周1046–771 BCE	Iberians and Celts伊比利亚人与凯尔特人1001–219 BCE · Spain
900–801 BCE		Celtic Britons (Iron Age)凯尔特不列颠人（铁器时代）801 BCE – 43 · UK Archaic period古风时期801–481 BCE · Greece
800–701 BCE	Eastern Zhou东周771–256 BCE Spring and Autumn period春秋771–481 BCE	First Olympic Games首届奥林匹克运动会777 BCE · Greece Romulus founds Rome罗慕路斯建立罗马753 BCE · Italy Roman Kingdom (the seven kings)罗马王政时代（七王）753–509 BCE · Italy Ancient Rome古罗马753–44 BCE · Italy Homer's Iliad荷马《伊利亚特》750 BCE · Greece Homer's Odyssey荷马《奥德赛》720 BCE · Greece Scythians and Sarmatians斯基泰人与萨尔马提亚人701–201 BCE · Russia
600–501 BCE	Confucius孔子551–479 BCE	Roman Republic founded罗马共和国建立509 BCE · Italy Athenian democracy established雅典民主制确立509 BCE · Greece Celtic Gaul (the Gauls)高卢（凯尔特人）501–59 BCE · France Germanic peoples emerge日耳曼民族的形成501 BCE · Germany
500–401 BCE	Warring States战国481–221 BCE	Greco-Persian Wars希波战争500–450 BCE · Greece Classical Greece (Golden Age)古典时期（黄金时代）481–324 BCE · Greece Peloponnesian War伯罗奔尼撒战争432–405 BCE · Greece
400–301 BCE		Gauls sack Rome高卢人攻陷罗马390 BCE · Italy Alexander the Great's empire亚历山大大帝的帝国337–324 BCE · Greece Hellenistic period希腊化时期324–32 BCE · Greece
300–201 BCE	Qin秦221–206 BCE Western Han西汉206 BCE – 25	Punic Wars布匿战争264–146 BCE · Italy Carthaginian Iberia迦太基治下的伊比利亚238–207 BCE · Spain Roman Hispania罗马西班牙（希斯帕尼亚）219 BCE – 472 · Spain
200–101 BCE		Roman conquest of Greece罗马征服希腊147 BCE · Greece Social and civil wars: Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar同盟者战争与内战：马略、苏拉、庞培、凯撒146–44 BCE · Italy
100–1 BCE		Caesar's conquest of Gaul凯撒征服高卢（高卢战争）59–51 BCE · France Roman Gaul罗马高卢52 BCE – 486 · France Julius Caesar assassinated凯撒遇刺44 BCE · Italy Roman Empire罗马帝国27 BCE – 476 · Italy Pax Romana罗马和平27 BCE – 180 · Italy
1 – 99	Eastern Han东汉25 – 220	Battle of the Teutoburg Forest条顿堡森林战役9 · Germany Roman Britain罗马不列颠43 – 410 · UK Eruption of Vesuvius destroys Pompeii维苏威火山喷发，庞贝城被毁79 · Italy
100 – 199	Invention of paper造纸术的发明105
200 – 299	Three Kingdoms三国220 – 265 Western Jin西晋265 – 316
300 – 399	Eastern Jin东晋317 – 420	Edict of Milan米兰敕令313 · Italy Byzantine Empire拜占庭帝国330 – 1453 · Greece Migration Period民族大迁徙375 – 568 · Germany Christianity made state religion基督教成为国教380 · Italy
400 – 499	Northern and Southern dynasties南北朝420 – 589	Anglo-Saxon England盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰410 – 1066 · UK Visigoths sack Rome西哥特人洗劫罗马410 · Italy Visigothic Kingdom西哥特王国418 – 711 · Spain Fall of the Western Roman Empire西罗马帝国灭亡476 · Italy Frankish Kingdom (Merovingians)法兰克王国（墨洛温王朝）481 – 751 · France Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy东哥特王国493 – 553 · Italy
500 – 599	Sui隋581 – 618	Early East Slavs早期东斯拉夫人500 – 862 · Russia Lombard Kingdom伦巴第王国568 – 774 · Italy
600 – 699	Tang唐618 – 907
700 – 799		Al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia)安达卢斯（穆斯林统治时期）711 – 1492 · Spain Reconquista收复失地运动718 – 1492 · Spain Carolingian dynasty加洛林王朝751 – 987 · France Papal States established教皇国建立756 – 1870 · Italy Medieval Rome中世纪罗马772 – 1377 · Italy Viking invasions and the Danelaw维京入侵与丹麦法区793 – 1066 · UK
800 – 899	Invention of gunpowder火药的发明850	Charlemagne crowned emperor in Rome查理曼在罗马加冕为帝800 · Italy Treaty of Verdun (East Francia)凡尔登条约（东法兰克王国）843 · Germany Varangians and Rurik瓦良格人与留里克862 – 879 · Russia Kievan Rus'古罗斯（基辅罗斯）879 – 1240 · Russia
900 – 999	Five Dynasties五代907 – 960 Northern Song北宋960 – 1127	Holy Roman Empire神圣罗马帝国962 – 1806 · Germany Capetian dynasty (Kingdom of France)卡佩王朝（法兰西王国）987 – 1328 · France
1000 – 1099		Maritime republics of Venice and Genoa威尼斯与热那亚海洋共和国1000 – 1500 · Italy Norman Conquest诺曼征服1066 · UK
1100 – 1199	Southern Song南宋1127 – 1279	Commercial Revolution商业革命1100 – 1500 · Italy
1200 – 1299	Yuan元1271 – 1368	Feudal Rus'封建罗斯1240 – 1480 · Russia
1300 – 1399	Ming明1368 – 1644 Ming: Hongwu's sea ban to the Longqing opening明朝：太祖海禁至隆庆开关1371 – 1567 Age of isolation闭关锁国1371 – 1723	The Renaissance文艺复兴1300 – 1600 · Italy Black Death reaches Italy黑死病传入意大利1347 – 1352 · Italy Hanseatic League汉萨同盟1356 – 1669 · Germany
1400 – 1499	Ming: Zheng He's voyages明朝：郑和下西洋1405 – 1433	Gutenberg's printing press古腾堡印刷机1440 · Germany Ottoman Greece奥斯曼统治时期1453 – 1821 · Greece Fall of Constantinople君士坦丁堡陷落1453 · Greece Catholic Monarchs天主教双王（卡斯蒂利亚与阿拉贡联合）1469 – 1516 · Spain Spanish Inquisition西班牙宗教裁判所1478 – 1834 · Spain Tsarist Russia沙皇俄国1480 – 1917 · Russia Spanish Empire西班牙帝国1492 – 1898 · Spain Fall of Granada格拉纳达陷落1492 · Spain Columbus reaches the Americas哥伦布抵达美洲1492 · Spain Italian Wars意大利战争1494 – 1559 · Italy
1500 – 1599		The Scientific Revolution科学革命1500 – 1660 · UK Spanish Golden Age黄金世纪1500 – 1681 · Spain Habsburg Spain哈布斯堡西班牙1516 – 1700 · Spain The Reformation (Catholic Church vs Protestants)宗教改革（天主教会 vs 新教）1517 – 1648 Luther's 95 Theses (Reformation)路德《九十五条论纲》（宗教改革）1517 · Germany Renaissance and early modern Rome文艺复兴与近代早期的罗马1527 – 1762 · Italy Shakespeare莎士比亚1564 – 1616 · UK Spanish Armada defeated无敌舰队覆灭1588 · Spain
1600 – 1699	Qing: Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong清朝：顺治、康熙、乾隆1644 – 1795 Qing清1644 – 1911	Galileo's telescopic astronomy伽利略的天文观测1610 · Italy Thirty Years' War三十年战争1618 – 1648 Thirty Years' War三十年战争1618 – 1648 · Germany The Enlightenment (Age of Reason)启蒙运动（理性时代）1637 – 1789 The Enlightenment (Age of Reason)启蒙运动（理性时代）1637 – 1789 · UK Peace of Westphalia威斯特伐利亚和约1648 Peace of Westphalia威斯特伐利亚和约1648 · Germany War of the League of Augsburg大同盟战争1688 – 1697 · France
1700 – 1799		War of the Spanish Succession西班牙王位继承战争1701 – 1714 · France Kingdom of Prussia普鲁士王国1701 – 1918 · Germany War of the Spanish Succession西班牙王位继承战争1701 – 1714 · Spain War of the Austrian Succession奥地利王位继承战争1740 – 1748 · France Western powers move into Asia西方列强进入亚洲1750 – 1853 Seven Years' War七年战争1756 – 1763 · France The First Industrial Revolution第一次工业革命1760 – 1830 · UK Watt's steam engine瓦特蒸汽机1769 · UK American Revolutionary War美国独立战争1775 – 1783 · France The French Revolution法国大革命1789 – 1799 · France Napoleonic rule in Italy拿破仑统治意大利1796 – 1814 · Italy
1800 – 1899	First Opium War第一次鸦片战争1839 – 1842 Second Opium War第二次鸦片战争1856 – 1860	Union with Ireland与爱尔兰合并1801 · UK Napoleonic Wars拿破仑战争1803 – 1815 · France Napoleonic Wars拿破仑战争1803 – 1815 · UK Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire神圣罗马帝国解体1806 · Germany Peninsular War半岛战争1808 – 1814 · Spain Spanish American wars of independence西属美洲独立战争1808 – 1833 · Spain German Confederation德意志邦联1815 – 1866 · Germany Greek War of Independence希腊独立战争1821 – 1829 · Greece First public steam railway首条公共蒸汽铁路1825 · UK Kingdom of Greece希腊王国1832 – 1924 · Greece Victorian era维多利亚时代1837 – 1901 · UK Risorgimento意大利统一运动1848 – 1871 · Italy The Communist Manifesto published (birth of communism)《共产党宣言》发表（共产主义之始）1848 · Germany Kingdom of Italy proclaimed意大利王国成立1861 – 1946 · Italy Franco-Prussian War普法战争1870 – 1871 · Germany German Empire proclaimed德意志帝国成立1871 – 1918 · Germany Virginia Woolf弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫1882 – 1941 · UK The automobile汽车1886 · Germany Spanish–American War美西战争1898 – 1898 · Spain
1900 – 1999	Eight-Nation Alliance: siege of the legations八国联军侵华1900 – 1900 Republic of China中华民国1911 – 1949 People's Republic of China新中国1949 – today Cultural Revolution文化大革命1966 – 1976 Reform and opening-up改革开放1978 – 2012	Balkan Wars巴尔干战争1912 – 1913 · Greece Germany in World War I德国与第一次世界大战1914 – 1918 · Germany Italy in World War I意大利参加第一次世界大战1915 – 1918 · Italy Russian Revolution俄国革命1917 – 1923 · Russia Lenin列宁时期1917 – 1924 · Russia Weimar Republic魏玛共和国1919 – 1933 · Germany Greco-Turkish War (Asia Minor Catastrophe)希土战争（小亚细亚灾难）1919 – 1922 · Greece Treaty of Versailles凡尔赛条约1919 · Germany Hitler and the Nazi era希特勒与纳粹时期1920 – 1945 · Germany Stalin斯大林1922 – 1953 · Russia Fascist Italy under Mussolini墨索里尼的法西斯意大利1922 – 1943 · Italy Soviet Union苏联时期1923 – 1991 · Russia Lateran Treaty creates Vatican City拉特兰条约建立梵蒂冈1929 · Italy Second Spanish Republic西班牙第二共和国1931 – 1939 · Spain Spanish Civil War西班牙内战1936 – 1939 · Spain Francoist Spain佛朗哥独裁时期1939 – 1975 · Spain World War II第二次世界大战1939 – 1945 · UK Germany in World War II德国与第二次世界大战1939 – 1945 · Germany Italy in World War II意大利参加第二次世界大战1940 – 1945 · Italy Axis occupation轴心国占领1941 – 1944 · Greece Greek Civil War希腊内战1946 – 1949 · Greece Italian Republic founded意大利共和国成立1946 · Italy Cold War冷战1947 – 1989 · Russia Division into East and West Germany德国分裂（东德与西德）1949 – 1990 · Germany Schuman Declaration舒曼宣言1950 European Coal and Steel Community欧洲煤钢共同体1951 – 1952 Treaty of Rome (founding of the EEC)罗马条约（欧洲经济共同体成立）1957 · Italy Treaty of Rome (EEC)罗马条约（欧洲经济共同体）1957 Berlin Wall built柏林墙修建1961 · Germany Military junta军政府时期1967 – 1974 · Greece First enlargement首次扩大（英国、爱尔兰、丹麦加入）1973 Third Hellenic Republic第三共和国1974 – today · Greece Transition to democracy民主转型1975 – 1978 · Spain First direct European Parliament elections首次欧洲议会直接选举1979 Greece joins the EEC加入欧洲共同体1981 · Greece Schengen Agreement申根协定1985 Spain joins the EEC加入欧洲共同体1986 · Spain Single European Act单一欧洲法案1986 Fall of the Berlin Wall柏林墙倒塌1989 · Germany German reunification两德统一1990 · Germany Modern Russia现代俄罗斯1991 – today · Russia Maastricht Treaty (EU founded)马斯特里赫特条约（欧盟成立）1992 Putin普京1999 – today · Russia Euro introduced欧元诞生1999
2000 – today		Eastern enlargement东扩（十国加入）2004 Treaty of Lisbon里斯本条约2007 – 2009 Eurozone debt crisis欧元区债务危机2009 – 2015 Nobel Peace Prize诺贝尔和平奖2012 Brexit英国脱欧2016 – 2020

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