Eastern Europe & the Balkans
Explore Eastern Europe & the Balkans on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Revolutions of 1989 (1989)
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Byzantine Empire (330)
- Battle of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569)
- Battle of Kosovo (1389)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Battle of Mohacs (1526)
- Union of Lublin (1569)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Poland regains independence (1918)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Ottoman Balkans (1354)
- Cyril and Methodius mission to the Slavs (863)
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Munich Agreement (1938)
- Holodomor (1932)
- Srebrenica massacre (1995)
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Solidarity movement in Poland (1980)
- Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia (1989)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Russian annexation of Crimea (2014)
- Bosnian War (1992)