The main goal of this subject is to make students acquainted with the historical development of all European states from the late prehistoric ages till the present. The student learn, how to describe and define individual periods of the European society development, to order the historical events according to the chronological periods and their importance for development of European society, to characterize (outline) the decisive historical terminuses of the Europe´s development. The students learn to describe and make clear the causes of genesis of these significant events in the history of Europe and, within the frame of seminars, to debate about these events and to evaluate their importance for civilization development in the Europe. They will be able, by use of the factual examples, to illustrate and analyse the impacts of these historical events on the worldwide development of human society.