Medieval Ages Timeline

Fall of the Roman Empire

745

The decline of the Western Roman Empire. Its territory was divided into several successor polities. The fall of the roman empire was caused by invasions of Barbarian tribes. In September 476 AD, the last Roman emperor of the west, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by a Germanic prince called Odovacar, who had won control of the remnants of the Roman army of Italy, who then became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome.

Charles the Great (Charlemagne)

Dec 25, 800

Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king, Charlemagne, Emperor of the Romans, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, making him the most powerful ruler of his time.

William Normandy invades England

Oct 14, 1066

During the battle of hastings, WIlliam, duke of Normandy, defeated Harold the II, King of England. Not long after he was crowned king, as William I, leading to profound administrative, political and social changes in the British Isles as the result of the Norman Conquest.

First Crusade

Nov 27, 1096

The First Crusade was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land. It ranged from 1096-1099. During the First Crusade, Christian knights from Europe capture Jerusalem after seven weeks of siege and begin massacring the city's Muslim and Jewish population. On November 27, 1095, in Clermont, France, Pope Urban II called for a crusade to help the Byzantines and to free the city of Jerusalem.

Second Crusade

1147

The Second Crusade started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in Mesopotamia to the forces of Zengi. The country had been founded during the First Crusade by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1098. It ranged from 1147-1149.

Notre Dame construction

1163

The cathedral was built on a small island called the Île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine. Construction began in 1163, during the reign of King Louis VII, and was completed in 1345. It is considered a jewel of medieval Gothic architecture.

Third Crusade

1189

The Third Crusade started as an attempt by the leaders of the three most powerful states of Western Chirstianity to reconquer the Holy Land, following the capture of Jerusalem, by the Ayyubid Sultan Sakadin in 1187. It ranged from 1189-1192.

Magna Carta Libertatum

Jun 15, 1215

Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties. a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. Magna Carta established for the first time the principle that everybody, including the king, was subject to the law.

Hundred Year War

May 24, 1337

The causes of the Hundred Year War were the dissatisfaction of Edward III of England with the nonfulfillment by Philip VI of France of his pledges to restore a part of Guienne taken by Charles IV. The English had attempted to control Flanders, which was an important market for English wool and source of cloth. It ranged from the 24th of May 1337 to the 19th of October 1453.

Black Death (Pestilence)

1347

The Black Death was a global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Asia and Europe in the mid 1300’s, around 1347. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships docked at the Sicillian port of Messina, coming from the Black Sea. Approximately 25 million people in Europe died from the bubonic plague during the Black Death. The population of western Europe did not again reach its pre-1348 level until the beginning of the 16th century. It ranged from 1347-1350.