Timeline of Geopolitical Changes in Europe (1850-present) (detailed)

by galacticpasta

35 comments
  1. I’ve been working on this on-and-off for about 2 or 3 years. I tried my best to keep errors to a minimum. It is as detailed as I could make it without going too overboard—some parts required simplification (looking at you Russian Civil War). Short-lived entities (<6 months) are often excluded for simplicity. Visual appearance often took priority over visual consistency, but I tried! Hope you all enjoy pouring over it. Tool used was Adobe Illustrator.

  2. Wasn’t Russian Empire flag black-yellow-white?

  3. Very interesting.

    For Belgium, shouldn’t the integration of Eupen-Malmedy (around the same tim as Neutral Moresnet) be included as well?

  4. A graph with non-linear time would be more readable, but at the same time it illustrates that there are decades where nothing happens, followed by weeks during which decades worth of historical events happen.

  5. I didn’t notice any mistakes for my country. Great job!

  6. Looks like the GIT branch map of one of my less well maintained projects.

  7. Wow nice job! It’s actually really easy to read/follow.

  8. Couto misto fuses with Portugal.
    Portugal becomes a republic.

    Nothing procedes to hapen.

  9. I don’t really like the implication that Russia has successfully gained territories from urkraine near the end, those areas are still contested and are still considered Ukrainian by most of the world.

  10. Reddit has started damaging downloaded images by adding a reddit overlay

  11. The part of the Russian civil war must have taken a while, respect.

  12. Always found it a bit funny that Romania is older than Italy or Germany :))

  13. Wow. i’m seriously impressed. This is awesome material for students to get an overview what happened in the last 150 years.

    Never seen something like this. Would leave an award if i could.

  14. This is extremely cool, holy shit.

    I don’t know what the criteria are for when a branch is made, so depending on that Cyprus is perfectly correct, but the government of RoC actually split in 1963 before the island got split in half, with the newly separatist Turkish Cypriot administration mostly having power over the ethnic enclaves that began forming. It didn’t claim independence, but neither did the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus, but again, I don’t know the criteria so I can’t say much!

    Wonderful work regardless!

  15. Impressive work. Thx for sharing!

    This reminds me of the NBA trade deadline :)))

    *Treaty of Vienna (1866): Austria cedes Veneto to France, who immediately cedes it to Italy.*

    We should have gotten a second round pick as well, at the very least…

  16. Amazing stuff here, really awesome! You could add the name of the landmarks that went to other states, such as South-Tyrol and Trentino going from Austria to Italy (I come from that region, that‘s why I noriced). But all in all: amazing!

  17. You, sir deserve an award for this. Unfortunately, I am poor, all I can give is this cookie 🍪

  18. It’s kinda hard to see with that giant throbbing erection

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