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476
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
La caída del Imperio romano de Occidente se considera como el comienzo de la Edad Media. -
476
THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES
It is the historical period of Western civilization between the 5th and 15th centuries. Conventionally, its beginning is in the year 476 with the fall of the Roman Empire of the West and its end in 1492 with the discovery of America, 1 or in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire, date that has the singularity of coinciding with the invention of the printing press - publication of the Gutenberg Bible - and with the end of the Hundred Years' War. -
Period: 711 to 1491
The Reconquest
The period of the history of the Iberian Peninsula of approximately 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada to the expanding Christian kingdoms in 1491 is called Reconquest. The complete conquest of Granada marks the end of the period. -
800
Charlemagne, the emperor of the Romans
Charlemagne or Charles the Great was a Frankish king who extended his kingdom and covered almost all of Western and Central Europe. He was declared the emperor of the Romans in 800 AD and enjoyed the empire until his death. He associated his political steps with the Church and encouraged the resurgence of art, religion and culture also with the help of the Church. -
843
Treaty of Verdun
The Carolingian Empire was divided into three parts in August 843 AD through the Treaty of Verdun, which ended a three-year civil war. -
1215
Declaration of the Magna Carta
This letter is considered the first step towards the constitutional government of England. The Magna Carta restricted the Emperor's power and demonstrated the importance of a Constitution. -
1300
Beginning of the Renaissance
Renaissance is the name given in the nineteenth century to a broad cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was a transition period between the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the Modern Age -
Period: 1337 to 1453
The Hundred Years War
The Hundred Years War began in 1337, when the Kingdom of England waged war against the Kingdom of France. -
Period: 1348 to 1350
The Black Plague
It is the most threatening epidemic of the European Middle Ages, and significantly weakened the feudal system and the Church in Europe. -
Period: 1378 to 1417
The Great Schism
The Church suffered the first shock in 1054, when it was divided into the Eastern and Western Christian Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church believed that the Western Catholic Church was corrupt and exploitative. -
1440
Gutenberg printing press
In the West, it would be in the year 1440 when the invention was finally attributed to the German Johannes Gutenberg, the so-called "Father of the Press" after a great controversy over disputing the glory of that title among Germans, Italians, French and Dutch. -
1492
Columbus reaches the Bahamas
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Period: 1516 to
Gobiernan los Austrias Menores en España
The Austrian Minors rule in Spain (Felipe III, Felipe IV and Carlos II). Decadence of Spain, especially from the peace of Westphalia. The dynasty ends in 1700 and the Bourbons begin to rule -
Start of the baroque
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Death of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes
In 1616 two great writers die: William Shakespeare and
Miguel de Cervantes, creator of Don Quixote, icons of the Renaissance. -
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30 years war
The Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648) especially in Germany, between Catholics and Protestants. Germany was torn. The decline of the Habsburgs and the rise of France began -
Death of Isabel I
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Newton discovery
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Beginning of the Classical Period
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The Revolutionary War
The United States War of Independence was a warlike conflict that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. It happened between 1775 and 1783, ending with the British defeat in the battle of Yorktown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris. -
First flight in a hot air balloon
The hot air balloon is the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. -
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The French Revolution
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, which convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, to other nations of Europe that faced supporters and opponents of the system -
The first vaccine was discovered
Smallpox vaccine, the first successful vaccine to be developed, was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. He followed up his observation that milkmaids who had previously caught cowpox did not later catch smallpox by showing that inoculated cowpox protected against inoculated smallpox. -
End of the classical period
