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455
Vandals sack Rome
The sack of 455 was the third of four ancient sacks of Rome; it was conducted by the Vandals, who were then at war with the usurping Western Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus -
Period: 476 to 750
Clovis Merovingian Dynasty
The ruling family of the Franks from the middle of the 5th century until 751. They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gaulish Romans under their rule -
Period: 480 to 547
Benedict of Nursia
A Catholic saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches. He is a patron saint of Europe -
Period: Oct 10, 732 to Oct 11, 732
Battle of tours
The Battle of Tours, also called the Battle of Poitiers and, by Arab sources, the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs, was fought on 10 October 732, and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul -
May 26, 735
Saint Bede
an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles. -
Period: 768 to 814
Missi Dominici
Responsible for announcing the king's will on the local level and for ensuring that justice was done throughout the realm. -
Period: 780 to 850
Al-Khwarizmi
A Persian polymath who produced vastly influential works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the library of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad -
782
Massacre of Verden
The Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons -
793
Vikings attack Lindisfarne
Vikings attack Lindisfarne which had the preeminent center of Christianity in the kingdom of Northumbria -
Jan 28, 814
Charlemagne Death
Charlemagne, King of Franks dies -
Period: 849 to Oct 26, 899
King Alfred of England
Alfred the Great was king of the West Saxons from 871 to c. 886 and king of the Anglo-Saxons from c. 886 to 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf, who died when Alfred was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and Æthelred, reigned in turn before him. -
Period: 854 to Oct 15, 925
Muhammad Al Razi
Abū Bakr Muhammad Zakariyyā Rāzī, was a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, philosopher, and important figure in the history of medicine. He also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar -
Oct 14, 1066
Battle of Hastings
Fight between the Norman-French army and the English army -
1086
Doomsday Book
Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror -
Period: 1094 to 1162
Ibn Zuhur
An Arab physician, surgeon, and poet. He was born at Seville in medieval Andalusia, was a contemporary of Averroes and Ibn Tufail, and was the most well-regarded physician of his era -
Period: 1162 to Aug 18, 1227
Genghis Khan
The founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia -
Period: Aug 20, 1190 to 1255
Sundiata Keita
A prince and founder of the Mali Empire. The Malian ruler Mansa Musa, who made a pilgrimage to Mecca, was his great-nephew -
Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
A royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor -
Period: Sep 15, 1254 to Jan 8, 1324
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road -
Period: 1300 to Jul 25, 1368
Guy De Chauliac
A French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna -
1325
Mansa Musa Journey for the Hajj
Mansa Musa traveled through the cities of Timbuktu and Gao on his way to Mecca, and made them a part of his empire when he returned around 1325 -
1343
Jani Beg siege of Kaffa/Caffa
Jani Beg commanded a massive Crimean Tatar force that attacked the Crimean port city of Kaffa -
Period: 1343 to Oct 25, 1400
Geoffrey Chaucer
An English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry" -
Period: Sep 11, 1364 to 1430
Christine De Pisan
Born Cristina da Pizzano, was a poet and author at the court of King Charles VI of France and several French dukes. Venetian by birth, Christine served as a court writer in medieval France after the death of her husband -
Period: Jan 6, 1412 to May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc
A heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a saint. She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in the Vosges of northeast France