Europe, 1300–2000
Follow Europe's major states and eras across seven centuries. Hover over a stream to highlight it. Click or tap any state, era, or event to see the primary sources connected to it.
How to use: In the River view, scroll or pinch to zoom, and drag to pan. Click a colored stream for a state's key dates and sources, a bar on the left for an era, or an empty spot for sources from that year. The other views scroll sideways or down.
About the widths: A stream's width is an approximate visual indicator of each state's relative power and territorial extent. It is not measured data, and the widths are scaled to fill the chart in every year, as on the classic 1931 Histomap. Only selected major states are shown.
Images: Thumbnails come only from the public-domain Slides decks on this site. Events with no public-domain image appear as text.