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  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    Creative era of Classical Greek Civilization: Plato, Aristotle

  • 46 BCE

    Roman Republic conquers Greece

  • Period: 26 to 27

    Jesus is Active

  • Period: 45 to 31 BCE

    Roman becomes an empire

  • Period: 306 to 337

    Roman Emperor Constance (First Christian Emperor)

  • 420

    St. Augustine writes City of God

  • Period: 450 to 750

    Roman Catholic Church gains and converts and influence in Western Europe

  • 476

    End of Roman Empire in West

  • Period: 610 to 632

    Muhammad teaches Islam

  • Period: 635 to 750

    Islam spreads across Middle East, North Africa, and Spain

  • 800

    Coronation of Emperor Charlemagne

  • Period: 1000 to 1200

    Improvements in European agriculture and the rise of towns

  • 1054

    Great Schism

  • 1064

    Norman Invasion: Battle of Hasting

  • Period: 1095 to 1099

    First Christian Crusade in Palestine

  • Period: 1100 to 1300

    Development of universities and scholasticism

  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    Arabic and Greek science enters European Culture

  • 1137

    Abbot Suger rebuild the cathedral of St. Denis Paris in gothic style

  • Period: 1147 to 1221

    Second - Fifth Crusades

  • Period: 1198 to 1216

    Pope Innocent III (peak of medieval papacy)

  • 1215

    Magna Carta is Signed

  • Period: 1267 to 1273

    Thomas Aquinas writes the Summa Theologica

  • 1302

    Pope Boniface III issues the bull Unam Sanctum

  • 1304

    Giotto begins work on his frescoes in the Arena Chapel, Padua

  • Period: 1305 to 1378

    Babylonian Captivity

  • 1307

    Dante writes Divine Comedy

  • Period: 1334 to 1453

    Hundreds Year War

  • Period: 1346 to 1353

    Black Death

  • Period: 1348 to 1353

    Boccacio works on the Decameron

  • 1358

    Jacquire

  • 1378

    Ciompi

  • 1378

    Visconti becomes ruler of Milan

  • Period: 1378 to 1414

    Western Schism

  • 1381

    Great Rising

  • 1415

    John Hus burned at stake

  • 1417

    Election of Pope Martin V ends Western Schism

  • 1425

    Masaccio paints Holy Trinity

  • 1434

    Cosimo de'Medici becomes ruler of Florence

  • Period: 1445 to 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg develops movable printing press

  • 1450

    Francesco Sforza becomes ruler of Milan

  • Period: 1453 to 1485

    War of Roses

  • 1461

    Louis XI becomes King of France

  • 1469

    Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile

  • 1469

    Lorenzo de'Medici becomes ruler of Florence

  • 1478

    Start of Spanish Inquisition

  • 1485

    Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII of England

  • 1485

    Giovanni Bellini paints St. Francis in Ectasy

  • 1492

    The Spanish Reconquista

  • Period: 1495 to 1498

    Savonaraola takes power in Florence

  • 1509

    Henry VIII becomes King of England

  • 1512

    John Colet delivers Convocation Sermon

  • Period: 1515 to 1544

    Francis brings the Renaissance to France

  • 1516

    Thomas More publishes Utopia

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Luther posts his 95 thesis

  • 1519

    Charles V becomes HRE emperor

  • 1519

    Disputation of Leipzig

  • 1519

    Start of Zwinglism

  • 1520

    Luther publish his three treatises

  • 1520

    Exurge Domine

  • 1521

    Edict of Worms

  • 1521

    Luther is excommunicated

  • Period: 1524 to 1525

    Germans Peasants Revolt

  • 1527

    Rome is sacked by the unpaid mercenaries

  • 1556

    Charles V begins the process of abdication

  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I's reign of England