Medieval Europe

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  • 410

    Visogoths sack Rome

  • 455

    *Vandals sack Rome

  • 459

    St. Patrick dies

  • 476

    *Fall of Rome

  • 525

    Anno Domini calendar is invented

  • 527

    *Justinian I becomes Emperor of Byzantium

  • 535

    *Emperor Justininan establishes his legal code

  • 552

    The secret of how to make silk is discovered

  • 563

    St. Columbus founds Iona

  • 590

    *Pope Gregory I begins reign

  • 622

    *Islamic religion is formed

  • 622

    Hegira

  • 632

    Muhammad dies

  • 651

    Islamic conquest of Persia

  • 691

    Buddhism becomes the state religion of China

  • 711

    Moors from North Africa invade Spain

  • 717

    *Seige of Constantinople

  • 718

    *Reconquista in Spain

  • 731

    *The Venerable Bede publishes "Ecclesiastical History of the English People"

  • 732

    *Battle of Tours

  • 793

    *Vikings raid the church at Lindisfarne

  • 800

    *Charlemagne becomes emperor

  • 820

    *A group of Vikings settles in northwest France and will later be called "Normans"

  • 835

    Vikings begin invading northern Europe

  • 843

    *Treaty of Verdun

  • 860

    Vikings discover Iceland

  • 870

    *Aethelflaed of Mercia born

  • 871

    *Alfred the Great becomes king

  • 886

    *King Alfred the Great captures London from the Danes

  • 910

    *Cluny Abbey founded

  • 911

    *Normandy is founded

  • 919

    *First use of gunpowder

  • 962

    *Otto the Great is crowned emperor

  • 969

    *Cairo founded

  • 975

    *The story of Beowulf is first told

  • 979

    Song Dynasty reunites China

  • 982

    Vikings discover Greenland

  • 1001

    Vikings sail to North America

  • 1016

    *Cnut becomes king

  • 1025

    *Avicenna writes the "Cannon of Medicine"

  • 1042

    *Edward the Confessor becomes king

  • 1066

    *Battle of Hastings

  • 1066

    *William the Conqueror becomes King of England

  • 1077

    *Walk to Canossa

  • 1077

    *Bayeux Tapestry created

  • 1087

    *William Rufus becomes King of England

  • 1094

    *El Cid defeats Moors

  • 1096

    *First Crusade

  • 1099

    Christian armies capture Jerusalem

  • 1100

    *Henry I becomes King of England

  • 1102

    *Empress Matilda was born

  • 1117

    University of Oxford is founded

  • 1122

    *Eleanor of Aquitaine is born

  • 1135

    *The story of King Arthur is first told by Geoffrey of Monmouth

  • 1146

    *Pope Eugenius III declares the second Crusade

  • 1154

    *Henry II becomes king

  • 1170

    *Thomas Becket is killed

  • 1180

    *Philip II becomes King of France

  • 1185

    Japan is ruled by a shogun for the first time

  • 1187

    Battle of Hitin

  • 1189

    *Third Crusade begins

  • 1189

    *Richard the Lionheart becomes King of England

  • 1198

    *Pope Innocent III begins reign

  • 1199

    *John Lackland becomes King of England

  • 1202

    *Fourth Crusade begins

  • 1206

    The Mongol Empire is founded by Genghis Khan

  • 1209

    *St. Francis of Assisi creates the Franciscan order

  • 1216

    *Magna Carta is created

  • 1216

    *Henry III becomes King of England

  • 1217

    *Fifth Crusade begins

  • 1220

    *Roger Bacon born

  • 1228

    *Sixth Crusade begins

  • 1231

    *Pope Gregory IX begins the Inquisition

  • 1239

    *Seventh Crusade begins

  • 1248

    *Eighth Crusade begins

  • 1270

    *Ninth Crusade begins

  • 1270

    *William Wallace born

  • 1271

    *Marco Polo begins his journey to the east

  • 1272

    *Edward I becomes king

  • 1273

    *The Hapsburg Dynasty takes control of the Holy Roman Empire

  • 1273

    *Height of Thomas Aguinas' career

  • 1295

    *Isabella of France born

  • 1298

    *Battle of Falkirk

  • 1306

    *Robert the Bruce becomes king

  • 1308

    *Dante Alighieri begins the Divine Comedy

  • 1315

    *The Great Famine begins

  • 1324

    *Mansa Musa begins trip to Mecca

  • 1327

    *Edward III becomes king

  • 1330

    *The Black Prince is born

  • 1337

    *Beginning of the Hundred Years' War

  • 1347

    *Black Death

  • 1377

    *The story of Robin Hood first told

  • 1378

    *The Great Schism begins

  • 1381

    *Peasants' Revolt

  • 1386

    *Geoffrey Chaucer begins writing the Canterbury Tales

  • 1413

    *Henry V becomes King of England

  • 1415

    *Battle of Agincourt

  • 1429

    *Joan of Arc leads French army

  • 1430

    *Margaret of Anjou born

  • 1440

    *Gutenberg printing press invented

  • 1451

    *Isabella I of Castile (Spain) born

  • 1453

    *Fall of Byzantine Empire

  • 1453

    *Hundred Years' War ends

  • 1455

    *War of the Roses begins

  • 1466

    *Elizabeth of York born

  • 1469

    *Ferdinand II and Isabella I are married

  • 1470

    *La Morte D'Arthur is published

  • 1470

    *King Edward V is born

  • 1483

    *Richard III becomes King of England

  • 1485

    *Battle at Bosworth Field

  • 1487

    *War of Roses ends

  • 1492

    *Columbus discovers the Americas

  • 1517

    *Martin Luther writes his ninety-five theses