Timeline of European Union history
This is a timeline of European Union history and its previous development.
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Distinct periods
Individual years
European Coal and Steel Community
- 1950s
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1955
- 1956
- 1957
- 1950s
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960s
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- 1965
- 1966
- 1960s
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
- 1970s
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980s
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990s
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 2020s
- 2020
Key events
- 1945 – The end of World War II
- 1951 – Treaty of Paris creates Coal and Steel Community
- 1957 – Treaty of Rome creates European Economic Community (by "The Six": Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany)
- 1963 – Ankara Agreement initiated a three-step process toward creating a Customs Union which would help secure Turkey's full membership in the EEC.
- 1963 – Charles de Gaulle vetoes UK entry
- 1967 – ECSC, EEC and Euratom merged
- 1973 – Accession of Denmark, Ireland and the UK
- 1979 – First direct elections to Parliament
- 1981 – Accession of Greece
- 1985 – Delors Commission, Greenland leaves Community.
- 1986 – Single European Act; Accession of Portugal and Spain; flag adopted
- 1989 – The fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe
- 1992 – Maastricht Treaty formally called the Treaty on European Union - The European Union is born and Euro was introduced as the fellow currency (Denmark and the UK are not included in the EMU (European Monetary Union).
- 1993 – Copenhagen criteria defined
- 1995 – Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden
- 1999 – Fraud in the Commission results in resignation
- 2002 – The euro replaces twelve national currencies
- 2004 – Accession of ten countries (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia); signing of Constitution
- 2005 – France and the Netherlands reject the Constitution after own internal referendums (for France it was a binding one only)
- 2007 – Accession of Bulgaria and Romania
- 2009 – Lisbon Treaty abolishes the three pillars of the European Union
- 2013 – Accession of Croatia
- 2016 – UK holds a Membership Referendum and votes to leave the European Union
- 2017 – Negotiations between UK and the EU officially started in June 2017
- 2017 – Start of Brexit: On 29 March 2017, the Government of the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. The UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 at 11 p.m. GMT, when the period for negotiating a withdrawal agreement was set to end
- 2020 – UK leaves the EU after the Brexit withdrawal agreement takes effect on 31 January 2020 at 11 p.m. GMT
Structural evolution
See also
External links
- A timeline of the EU – BBC News.
- The history of the European Union – Europa
- European Union Politics Timeline - Oxford University Press: European Union Politics Resource Centre
- Archival material concerning the history of the European Union can be consulted at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence
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