history timeline

  • 476

    Middle ages

    The Fall of Rome (beginning of the Middle Ages)
  • 507

    The Visigoth Kingdom of Toledo

    from 5th century to 8th century
  • Period: 527 to 565

    The Byzantine Empire

    The Emperor Justitian, recaptured much of the Western Roman Empire
  • Period: 632 to 661

    The Orthodox Caliphate

    The Muslims created a vast empire
  • Period: 661 to 750

    The Umayyad Caliphate

    The Umayyad family made the caliph a hereditary ruler
  • 711

    Iberian Peninsula

    The Arrival of Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula (Battle of Guadalete)
  • 718

    The Battle of Covadonga

  • Period: 732 to 1492

    The Battle de Poitiers

  • Period: 750 to 1258

    The Abbasid Caliphate

    The Abbasid family moved the capital to Baghdad
  • 800

    Carolingian Empire

    The Charlemagne is named emperor (beginning of the Carolingian Empire)
    800 Charlemagne became emperor
  • 843

    Treaty of Verdun (end of the Carolingian Empire)

    This Treaty divided it into three parts the Carolingian Empire
  • Period: 929 to 1031

    The Caliphate of Córdoba

  • Period: 1031 to 1086

    The Taifas states

  • Period: 1086 to 1147

    The African dynasties (Almoravids and Almohads)

  • 1212

    The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years’ War

  • Period: 1348 to 1352

    The Black Death

  • 1453

    Fall of Constantinople,

    Fall of Constantinople,,1453, conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Period: 1482 to 1492

    The Conquest of Granada

  • 1492

    Discover of America

    .Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492.
  • 1520

    End of the Middle Ages