Middle Ages

By Miriam05
  • Period: 1337 BCE to 1453 BCE

    Hundred Years War between England and France

  • 1066 BCE

    Duke becomes King of England

    The conquest of England began with the Norman victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, after which Duke William became king of England. The conquest also had a significant impact on the development of English culture and language.
  • 1054 BCE

    The split

    Church schism, after which the division finally took place into the Roman Catholic Church in the West, with the center in Rome, Orthodox in the East, with the center in Constantinople.
  • 711 BCE

    Arabs in Spain

    When Mohammed's second successor ascended the throne in Damascus. 12,000-strong Muslim army invaded Spain, they couldn't resist the Arabs and surrendered. But after the conquest, the Arabs left their property, churches and laws to the residents.
  • 476 BCE

    Empire no longer exists

    Rome was taken by the Visigoths. As a result of which the state was unable to manage its vast territory and ceased to exist.
  • 732

    The Battle of Poitiers.

    The Arab invasion of Europe was stopped.
  • 1096

    First crusade

    Significant strengthening of the position of the Catholic Church. However, his results were flimsy. In the middle of the XII century. the resistance of the Muslim world is growing. Crusader states and principalities fell one after another.
  • 1189

    Christians leave the Great City

    The Siege of Acre is the most important battle of the Third Crusade in the Holy Land. After a difficult two-year siege, the crusaders managed to recapture the strategically important city of Akru, which for 100 years remained a stronghold of the crusaders and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  • 1346

    Black Death

    The Black Death had significant demographic, social, economic, cultural and religious implications, and even influenced the genetic makeup of the European population, altering the ratio of blood groups in affected populations. political instability; and technological and cultural regression. Many villages were deserted after the death or flight of residents, and the urban population also decreased.
  • 1445

    First printed book

    The first printed book was a really interesting thing in Middle Ages. I think it was unbelievable and amazing to them, seeing and knowing new technologies.
  • 1453

    Second Rome fell

    The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople from the Palaologos dynasty that had restored the Empire to the capital in 1261, as mentioned before. Usually regarded as the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.