Dark Ages and Middle Ages

  • Period: 400 to 499

    Angles and Saxons invade Britain

  • 481

    Clovis becomes King of the Franks

    Clovis becomes King of the Franks
  • Period: 527 to 565

    Reign of Justinian

  • Apr 5, 650

    Rightly Guided Caliphs conquer Middle East

  • Period: Apr 5, 661 to Apr 5, 750

    Umayyad Dynasty

  • Apr 5, 672

    Mohammad's Visions

  • Apr 5, 716

    Umayyad Dynasty reaches Spain

  • Apr 5, 732

    Battle of Tours

    Battle of Tours
  • Period: Apr 5, 750 to Apr 5, 1258

    Abbasid Dynasty

  • Period: Apr 5, 768 to Apr 5, 814

    Reign of Charlemagne

  • Period: Apr 5, 800 to Apr 5, 899

    Viking Invasions

  • Apr 5, 843

    Treaty of Verdun

  • Apr 5, 880

    Rurik the Rus conquers Kiev

    Rurik the Rus conquers Kiev
  • Apr 5, 886

    King Alfred creates "Angleland"

  • Apr 5, 962

    Otto the Great crowned Holy Roman Emperor

  • Apr 5, 987

    Hugh Capet seized the French throne

    Hugh Capet seized the French throne
  • Apr 5, 1059

    Church reform leads to cardinals electing the Pope

  • Apr 5, 1066

    Battle of Hastings

    Battle of Hastings
    William the Conquerer becomes King of England.
  • Apr 5, 1095

    Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade

    Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade
  • Period: Apr 5, 1147 to Apr 5, 1149

    Second Crusade

  • Apr 5, 1150

    Universities form in Europe

  • Period: Apr 5, 1180 to Apr 5, 1223

    Reign of Philip Augustus

  • Period: Apr 5, 1189 to Apr 5, 1192

    Third Crusade

  • Period: Apr 5, 1202 to Apr 5, 1204

    Fourth Crusade

  • Apr 5, 1215

    Magna Carta signed by King John

    Magna Carta signed by King John
  • Apr 5, 1232

    Inquisition set up in Western Europe

  • Apr 5, 1240

    Mongols invade Russia

  • Apr 5, 1295

    Model Parliament callled into session

  • Period: Apr 5, 1305 to Apr 5, 1377

    "Babylonian Captivity"

  • Apr 5, 1325

    Center of Eastern Orthodoxy transferred to Moscow

  • Period: Apr 5, 1337 to Apr 5, 1453

    The Hundred Year's War

  • Period: Apr 5, 1377 to Apr 5, 1414

    The Great Schism

  • Apr 5, 1386

    Queen Jadwiga marries Wladyslaw Jagiello

    Queen Jadwiga marries Wladyslaw Jagiello
  • Apr 5, 1429

    Joan of Arc fights the Battle of Orleans

    Joan of Arc fights the Battle of Orleans
  • Apr 5, 1453

    Ottoman Turks conquer Constinople

    They rename it Istanbul.
  • Apr 5, 1455

    War of the Roses

    War of the Roses
  • Apr 5, 1492

    Spanish armies conquer Granada

  • Apr 5, 1493

    Maximillian I marries Mary of Burgundy

  • Apr 5, 1526

    King Louis II of Hungary defeated by the Ottomans