The Middle Ages

By tom_sinclair
  • 410

    Romans leave Britain to save Rome

  • 476

    Death of the last emperor

  • Period: 476 to Feb 23, 1500

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  • 570

    Muhammed born

  • Feb 23, 632

    Death of Muhammed

  • Feb 23, 711

    Muslims invade Spain

  • Feb 23, 1003

    Edward the Confessor born

  • Feb 23, 1042

    Edward the Confessor comes to the throne

  • Feb 23, 1054

    The east-west schism ehich divides the church into Orthodox and Chatholic

  • Feb 23, 1066

    William the Conqueror invades England and becomes king after the battle of Hastings

  • Feb 23, 1077

    Construction of the Tower of London begins

  • Feb 23, 1095

    Pope Urban issues the Crusades to capture the Holy land

  • Feb 23, 1099

    First Crusade: Jerusalem is taken from the Muslims

  • Sep 28, 1106

    Henry I defeats older brother Rober Cutthose to become king of England

  • Feb 23, 1117

    Oxford is established

  • Feb 23, 1118

    The Knights Templar are founded to protect Jerusalem and European pilgrims entering the city

  • Feb 23, 1135

    The Anarchy begins in England

  • Feb 23, 1147

    Second Crusade: A failure

  • Feb 23, 1187

    Saladin recaptures Jerusalem

  • Feb 23, 1189

    Richard I ascends the English throne and begind taxation (to fund the crusades)

  • Feb 23, 1189

    Third Crusade

  • Feb 23, 1202

    Fourth Crusade; Croation town Zadar sacked

  • Feb 23, 1215

    The Magna Carta is sealed by king John of Engand

  • Feb 23, 1227

    Gengis Khan dies

  • Feb 23, 1272

    Ninth Crusade

  • Feb 23, 1296

    Edward I invades Scotland

  • Jul 27, 1299

    Ottoman Empire founded

  • Period: Feb 23, 1337 to Feb 23, 1453

    Hundred Year War

  • Feb 23, 1347

    The Black Death wipes nearly 50% of western europe in its first year

  • Feb 23, 1381

    Peasents revolt in England

  • Feb 23, 1381

    The bible is first translated into english

  • Feb 23, 1399

    Richard II abdicated the throne to Henry of Bolingbroke,who became Henry IV, first Landcastrian King of England

  • Oct 25, 1415

    Battle Agincourt

  • Feb 23, 1429

    Joan of Arc lifts the siege of Orleans

  • Feb 23, 1431

    Trial and execution of Joan of Arc

  • Feb 23, 1453

    Constantinople falld to the Ottoman Empire

  • May 22, 1455

    War of the Roses begins

  • Feb 23, 1487

    Battle of Stroke which ends the War of Roses

  • Feb 23, 1487

    Henry Tudor bocomes king after the Battle of Bosworth Field at which he defeated richard the III

  • Feb 23, 1492

    Christopher Colubus reaches a new world

  • Rome at its largest point

  • Establishment of Bulgarian Empire

  • Edward the Elder (son of Alfred the Great) defeats Norththumbrian Vikings

  • Beginning of Charlemagnes reign

  • Charlemgne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor

  • Charlemagne dies

  • Viking 'Great Army' arrives in England

  • Alfred the Great assumes throne, first king of a united England

  • Vikings attack Paris

  • Death of Alfred the Great

  • Otto the Great is crowned the Holy Emperor

  • Period: to

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