Middle Ages

Muhammad, prophet of Islam is born.

570

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Muhammad, prophet of Islam is born.

Battle of Tours

Nov 11, 732

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.phpThe Franks defeat the Muslims turning back Islam from Europe

William of Normandy, a French Duke

Nov 11, 1066

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.phpconquers England in the Battle of Hastings. He became King of England and changed the country forever

Start of the First Crusade.

Nov 11, 1096

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.phpThe Crusades were wars between the Holy Roman Empire and the Muslims over the Holy Land. There would be several Crusades over the next 200 years

Richard I, Richard the Lionheart

Nov 11, 1189

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.phpbecomes King of England

The Mongol Empire

Nov 11, 1206

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.php founded by Genghis Khan

King John of England signs the Magna Carta.

Nov 11, 1215

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.php this document gave the people some rights and said the king was not above the law.

Marco Polo

Nov 11, 1271

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.php leaves on his famous journey to explore Asia.

The Hundred Years War

Nov 11, 1337

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.phpbegins between England and France for control of the French throne.

The Black Death begins in Europe

Nov 11, 1347

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.phpThis horrible disease would kill around half of the people in Europe

Charlemagne, King of the Franks, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor

Mar 2, 2022

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.php Charlemagne united much of Western Europe and is considered the father of both the French and the German Monarchies.

Vikings from the Scandinavian lands begin to invade northern Europe

Mar 2, 2022

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.phpThey would continue until 1042.

Alfred the Great, King of England,

Mar 2, 2022

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline.php turns back the king invaders