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410
Rome is sacked by Alaric
Desicive event in the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
he city was attacked by the Visigoths, led by Alaric I. At that time, Rome was no longer the capital of the Western Roman Empire, replaced in this position initially by Mediolanum and then later Ravenna. Nevertheless, the city of Rome retained a paramount position as "the eternal city" and a spiritual center of the Empire.
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476
The fall of Roman Western Empire
The fall of Western Roman Empire is considered as the beginning of the Middle Ages. The last Roman emperor was Julius Nepos who was nominated by Eastern Emperor Zeno. Nepo’s rebellion magister militum Orestes dethroned Julius Nepos and declared his own son Romulus Augustus as the new Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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Oct 14, 1066
Norman Conquests of England
This was the invasion and subsequent occupation of England by an army of Normans and French led by William II of Normandy. William wwas crowned king at London on Christmas Day. Then he consolidated his control and settled his control of his folowers on England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England -
Nov 1, 1095
The first Crusade is Launched
In November 1095, Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont-Ferrand in France to launch the First Crusade. The aim was to aid the Christians of the East and return to Christian control the Holy Sepulcher, the church in Jerusalem said to contain the tomb of Christ.
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Jun 10, 1215
Kihng John signed the Magna Carta
The content of the Magna Carta was drafted by Archbishop Stephen Langton and the most powerful Barons of England. King John signed the document which was originally called the 'Articles of the Barons' on June 10, 1215. The barons renewed the Oath of Fealty to King John on June 15, 1215. The royal chancery produced a formal royal grant, based on the agreements reached at Runnymede, which became known as Magna Carta. Copies of the Magna Carta were dist
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May 24, 1337
The 100 years War
The Hundred Years' War is a common name given to the series of armed conflicts, broken by a number of truces and peace treaties, that were waged from 1337 to 1453 between the two great European powers at that time, England and France.
http://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/antillians/hundredyrswar.html
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May 19, 1453
Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks
The remaining Christian settlements in the Aegean were thrown into a state of terror.It took almost one and a half months, early July of 1453, for the terrible news to reach Rome. On the 30 of September Pope Nicholas V issued a new crusade encyclical and sent appeals to all the courts of western Europe. It was the first time that printing presses were used in Germany to print indulgences and appeals. One of the results was seve
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May 22, 1455
The War of The Roses
The Wars of the Roses actually began on May 22, 1455 with First Battle of St Albans when Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard, Earl of Warwick defeated the Lancastrians under Edmund Beaufort who was killed. York captured Henry VI.
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Charlemagne os crowned Holy Roman Emperor
Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor in St. Peter's Basilica, in Rome, on December 25, 800 AD. At the time he crowned Charlemagne, he referred to the empire as the Roman Empire. Today, historians call Charlemagne's empire the Carolingian Empire, but at the time, people in Western Europe called it the Roman Empire, as Pope Leo III had.
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Treaty of Verdun
After his death, Louis the Pious was declared his successor who ruled as the Emperor of Romans. However, after his death, the Carolingian empire faced a Civil War because of the internal tussle between the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious who struggled for the emperorship. At last, the Carolingian empire was divided in three parts in August 843 AD through the Treaty of Verdun which ended the three years long Civil War.
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