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Period: 401 to
Middle Ages
Timeline of influential and important events, institutions, and people of the Middle Ages. -
476
Fall of the Roman Empire
Rome was attacked by the Visigoths (410). Then attacked by the Vandals (455). This eventually led to the fall of Rome (476) -
500
Vikings
The Vikings were a society people in medival europe trying to take over as much land as they could before they were eventually defeated by the English. -
Feb 5, 700
Fuedal System
The feudal system is the system for everyone to follow. The government in the Middle Ages were based off of the Fuedal System. The highest people in the feudal system is of course the king, the king ruled the land with the help from a Barron. Next in the fuedal system under the king is the Bishop, the bishop is in charge of the church. After the bishop is the barrons, they helped the king maintain his armies. After the bishop is the second to lowest: the lords, the lords ran local manors and -
Feb 5, 740
Fuedal System cont.
owned everything on their land. The lowest form of people in the feudal system is the seurfs, they are just regular peasants. -
Feb 4, 1000
The Church
With the fall of Rome, the Church became the most influential source during the Middle Ages. -
Feb 5, 1095
The Crusades
The Crusades started when the church wanted to stop the Muslims from taking over Jeruselum, so they created the Crusades to fight against them in the Holy Wars. -
Feb 4, 1200
Guilds
The guilds were an important part of the Middle ages. They were groups of regular, working common folk who in charge of buying, trading, and selling merchandise or skills.There was two types of guilds during the Middle Ages: Merchant and Craft guilds. Merchant guilds were in charge of trading, and craft guilds were people who were masons, painter, bakers, candlestick makers, etc. -
Feb 6, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was a list of rights created by the nobles so King John would stop taking their things. In America we used the idea of a document stating people's given rights and made our own: The Declaration of Independence. -
Feb 3, 1337
Hundred Years War
The Hundred years war started from England and France both wanting to have control of Europe. -
Feb 3, 1345
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc received a vision from god telling her to support Charles VII in the Hundred Years War. She helped in the war before she was captured by English-Allies, put on trial, and burned at the stake (1431). -
Feb 3, 1348
The Black Plague
The Black Plague is estimated to kill up to 200 million people in the Middle Ages. It was brought to Europe from Central Asia on the Silk Road, and spread quickly due to Europe's flithy living conditions. -
Feb 4, 1500
Monters
Many of the monsters we see today in the media came out of the middle ages. They were created when killers needed reasons why people were showing up dead. -
Sui Dynasty
China is redefined under the Sui Dynasty which unified China together for the firsst time in 400 years. -
Charlemagne
Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. His kingdom is recognized as the largest kingdom since Rome fell. -
Manoril System
The manorial system is the smallest form of fuedal government. It was where all legal and economic power belonged to the person who owned the manor. The owner could afford his land through contributions from peasants. Pesants who lived on the land could pay the owner by labor, goods, or coins.
