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Middle Ages

  • 330

    New Rome

    New Rome
    in the year 330, Constantine the emperor of Rome turned it into de ''Second Rome'', the new imperial seat in the East of the Roman Empire.
  • 476

    fall of the western roman empire

    fall of the western roman empire
    The Western Roman Empire was a political entity in antiquity.
    It arose as a result of the reforms undertaken in the Roman Empire to give it a new configuration after overcoming the so-called ‘crisis of the 3rd century’.
  • Period: 476 to Oct 12, 1492

    Influence of christianity

    influenced the development of Medieval European society in the areas of politics, economics, and education.
  • Period: Dec 25, 800 to Jan 28, 814

    charlemagne

    succeeded in uniting most of Western and Central Europe and was the first recognized emperor to rule Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, approximately three centuries before the fall of the Roman Empire.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1341 to Apr 12, 1354

    war of a 100 years

    was a regional war in France, part of a much larger conflict: the Hundred Years' War. The succession to the Duchy of Brittany, disputed by the Monfort and Blois families, was decided.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Jan 1, 1500

    the renaissance

    This was a transitional period between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Its main exponents were to be found in the field of the arts, although there was also a renewal in the sciences, both natural and human. The city of Florence in Italy was the birth and development of this movement, which later spread throughout Europe.
  • May 29, 1453

    fall of the eastern roman empire

    fall of the eastern roman empire
    It survived throughout the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. Its capital was Constantinople, built on the site of ancient Byzantium, an important colonial city in Greek Thrace founded around 667 BC. The Byzantine Empire is also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, especially in reference to its first centuries of existence during Late Antiquity, when the Western Roman Empire was still in existence.