Middle/Dark Ages Timeline Project

  • 1090 BCE

    IBN ZUHUR

    IBN ZUHUR
    Was one medieval Islam's foremost thinkers who became the greatest medical clinician of the western caliphate.
  • 455

    VANDALS SACK ROME

    VANDALS SACK ROME
    the third of four ancient sacks of Rome that was conducted by the Vandals who were at war
  • 547

    BENEDICT OF NURSIA

    BENEDICT OF NURSIA
    religious reformer known as the “father of Western monasticism,” . He is the patron saint of Europe
  • 687

    VIKINGS ATTACK LINIDISFARNE

    VIKINGS ATTACK LINIDISFARNE
    attacked the sacred heart of the Northumbrian kingdom which'the place where the Christian religion began in our nation. First landing area for the lindisfarne.
  • Oct 11, 732

    Battle of Tours

    Battle of Tours
    also called the Battle of Poitiers and, by Arab sources, the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul. The Decisive Frankish victory decided to withdrawal of the Umayyad army
  • May 26, 735

    Saint Bede

    Saint Bede
    The Venerable Bede was an English Benedictine monk its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles.
  • 750

    CLOVIS MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY STARTS

    CLOVIS  MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY STARTS
    traditionally reckoned as the “first race” of the kings of France.
  • 782

    Massacre of Verden

    Massacre of Verden
    an event during the Saxon Wars where the Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons
  • Jan 28, 814

    CHARLEMAGNE DIES

    CHARLEMAGNE DIES
    his empire encompassed much of Western Europe.
  • 820

    AL-KHWARIZMI

    AL-KHWARIZMI
    Known for his mathematical ways wrote on Hindu-Arabic numerals. The word algorithm derives from his name
  • 843

    Missi Dominici

    Missi Dominici
    powerful men protected with a price paid to a slain equal to that of a member of sovereign's family.
  • Oct 29, 899

    King Alfred Of England

    King Alfred Of England
    He made good laws and also believed that education was important. which he had books translated from Latin into English just so people could read them. To help protect his kingdom from Viking attacks, Alfred built forts and walled towns known as 'burhs'.
  • Oct 15, 925

    Muhammed Al-Razi

    Muhammed Al-Razi
    he the “original portrayer” of smallpox he was the first to describe smallpox and to differentiate it from measles.
  • Oct 14, 1066

    Battle of Hasting

    Battle of Hasting
    A fight between the Norman-French army of William the Duke of Normandy. This battle was important because it changed who was in charge in England.
  • 1085

    Domesday Book

    Domesday Book
    the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states it got it's name as a metaphor for the day of judgement, because its decisions like those of the last judgement, were unalterable.
  • Aug 20, 1190

    Sundiata Keita

    Sundiata Keita
    first ruler of the Mali Empire of a wealthy African empire and proclaimed the first charter of human rights.
  • Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    Magna Carta Libertatum, commonly called Magna Carta, is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor .Its a document guaranteeing English political liberties that was drafted.
  • Aug 18, 1227

    Genghis Khan

    Genghis Khan
    unifying the Mongolian steppe under massive empire that was able to challenge the powerful. he became power to his community
  • Sep 15, 1254

    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo
    explorer, and writer who traveled through Asia and the Silk Road between.
  • 1300

    Guy De Chauliac

    Guy De Chauliac
    He was the most the most eminent surgeon of the European Middle Ages..
  • 1324

    MANSA MUSA JOURNEY FOR THE HAJJ

    MANSA MUSA JOURNEY FOR THE HAJJ
    inspired him to commission two enormous mosques in Timbuktu and Gao. He encourage others to do the same thing he did
  • 1343

    Geoffery Chaucer

    Geoffery Chaucer
    was an English poet and author called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry".
  • 1343

    JANI BEG SIEGE OF KAFFA/CAFFA

    JANI BEG SIEGE OF KAFFA/CAFFA
    massive Crimean Tatar force that attacked the Crimean port city of Kaffa.
  • Sep 11, 1364

    Christine De Pisan

    Christine De Pisan
    She was a medieval writer and historiographer who wrote for women's equality.
  • May 30, 1431

    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc
    a national heroine of France. who was a peasant girl and was believing that she was acting under divine guidance.