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Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE
Creative era of Classical Greek Civilization: Plato, Aristotle
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46 BCE
Roman Republic conquers Greece
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Period: 26 to 27
Jesus is Active
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Period: 45 to 31 BCE
Roman becomes an empire
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Period: 306 to 337
Roman Emperor Constance (First Christian Emperor)
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420
St. Augustine writes City of God
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Period: 450 to 750
Roman Catholic Church gains and converts and influence in Western Europe
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476
End of Roman Empire in West
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Period: 610 to 632
Muhammad teaches Islam
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Period: 635 to 750
Islam spreads across Middle East, North Africa, and Spain
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800
Coronation of Emperor Charlemagne
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Period: 1000 to 1200
Improvements in European agriculture and the rise of towns
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1054
Great Schism
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1064
Norman Invasion: Battle of Hasting
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Period: 1095 to 1099
First Christian Crusade in Palestine
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Period: 1100 to 1300
Development of universities and scholasticism
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Period: 1100 to 1200
Arabic and Greek science enters European Culture
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1137
Abbot Suger rebuild the cathedral of St. Denis Paris in gothic style
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Period: 1147 to 1221
Second - Fifth Crusades
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Period: 1198 to 1216
Pope Innocent III (peak of medieval papacy)
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1215
Magna Carta is Signed
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Period: 1267 to 1273
Thomas Aquinas writes the Summa Theologica
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1302
Pope Boniface III issues the bull Unam Sanctum
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1304
Giotto begins work on his frescoes in the Arena Chapel, Padua
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Period: 1305 to 1378
Babylonian Captivity
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1307
Dante writes Divine Comedy
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Period: 1334 to 1453
Hundreds Year War
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Period: 1346 to 1353
Black Death
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Period: 1348 to 1353
Boccacio works on the Decameron
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1358
Jacquire
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1378
Ciompi
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1378
Visconti becomes ruler of Milan
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Period: 1378 to 1414
Western Schism
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1381
Great Rising
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1415
John Hus burned at stake
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1417
Election of Pope Martin V ends Western Schism
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1425
Masaccio paints Holy Trinity
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1434
Cosimo de'Medici becomes ruler of Florence
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Period: 1445 to 1450
Johannes Gutenberg develops movable printing press
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1450
Francesco Sforza becomes ruler of Milan
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Period: 1453 to 1485
War of Roses
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1461
Louis XI becomes King of France
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1469
Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile
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1469
Lorenzo de'Medici becomes ruler of Florence
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1478
Start of Spanish Inquisition
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1485
Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII of England
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1485
Giovanni Bellini paints St. Francis in Ectasy
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1492
The Spanish Reconquista
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Period: 1495 to 1498
Savonaraola takes power in Florence
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1509
Henry VIII becomes King of England
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1512
John Colet delivers Convocation Sermon
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Period: 1515 to 1544
Francis brings the Renaissance to France
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1516
Thomas More publishes Utopia
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Oct 31, 1517
Luther posts his 95 thesis
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1519
Charles V becomes HRE emperor
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1519
Disputation of Leipzig
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1519
Start of Zwinglism
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1520
Luther publish his three treatises
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1520
Exurge Domine
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1521
Edict of Worms
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1521
Luther is excommunicated
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Period: 1524 to 1525
Germans Peasants Revolt
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1527
Rome is sacked by the unpaid mercenaries
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1556
Charles V begins the process of abdication
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Period: 1558 to
Elizabeth I's reign of England