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Period: 476 to 1453
The Middle Ages
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570
Birth of Muhammad
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800
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III
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1054
The Great Schism
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Period: 1095 to 1291
The Crusades
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1099
Crusaders capture Jerusalem
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1209
St Francis founds Order of Friars and of the Poor Clares
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Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
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1347
Catherine of Siena begins her letters
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Period: 1348 to 1350
The Black Death
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1431
Joan of Arc burned at stake
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1485
Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica
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Period: 1494 to 1536
William Tyndale completes the English translation of the Bible
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1517
Martin Luthers post his 95 Theses
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Period: 1517 to
The Reformation
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1556
Ignatius Loyola founds the Jesuits