Middle/Dark ages timeline project

VANDALS SACK ROME

445

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

CLOVIS MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY STARTS

481

In 481 CE, Clovis, the founding father of the Merovingian Dynasty, assumed the throne at the tender age of 15 when his father Childeric, king of a Germanic tribe known as the Salian Franks, died

Battle of tours

Oct 10, 732

The battle of tours was in October 10th, 732, Charles Martel took the victory and the victory at Tours ensured the ruling dynasty of Martel’s family, the Carolingians.

Saint Bede

735

Saint Bede was a English Benedictine monk that was born 678 and died May 26, 735, he is best known for his Historia eccesiastica gentis Anglorum which is a source vital to the history of the conversation to Christianity of the Aglosaxon tribes.

Missi Dominici

768

Missis Dominici in Latin means "envoys of the Lord", the missi became a normal part of the administrative machinery under Charlemagne (reigned 768–814).

Massacre of Verden

782

The Massacre of Verden happened in October 782 AD, it was an event during the Saxon Wars where the Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons.

Vikings Attack Linidisfarne

Jun 8, 793

On June 8th, 793 AD, Vikings attack on the church of St. Cuthbert, it sent tremors throughout English Christendom and marked the beginning of the Viking Age in Europe.

CHARLEMAGNE DIES

Jan 28, 814

Charlemagne was a medieval emperor who ruled much of Western Europe from 768 to 814, Louis(his son) became sole emperor when Charlemagne died in January 814, ending his reign of more than four decades.

King Alfred of England

890

King Alfred also known as Alfred the Great was king of the Anglo-Saxons, he was born in the year 849 Ad and died October 26, 899 Ad, he prevented England from falling to the Danes and promoted learning and literacy.

Muhammed Al-Razi

900

Muhammed Al-Razi was a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, philosopher, and important figure in the history of medicine. He also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar in the 9th century A.D, he is known as the "oringinal portrayer" of smallpox.

Battle of Hastings

Oct 14, 1066

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

domesday book

1086

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.

Ibn Zuhr

1100

Ibn Zuhr was born 1094 and died 1162, he was a physician, surgeon, and poet, he was also one of medieval Islam's foremost thinkers and the greatest medical clinician of the western caliphate.

Magna Carta

1215

The Magna Carta is one of the most important documents in history as it established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king, and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right to justice and the right to a fair trial and it was published 1215 by king John (the king of England) and Stephen Langton.

GENGHIS KHAN

1227

Genghis Khan was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death, and after uniting the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau, he conquered huge chunks of central Asia and China.

Marco Polo

1290

Marco Polo was born in the year 1254 abd died 1324 was a Venetian merchant believed to have journeyed across Asia at the height of the Mongol Empire through the silk road.

Guy De Chauliac

1300

Guy De Chauliac was born in 1300 and died July 25th, 1365, he was a French physician and surgeon in medieval Europe, he wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna.

Geoffrey Chaucer

1342

Geoffrey Chaucer was born 1342 and died October 25, 1400, he was an English poet and author, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature".

Joan of Arc

1412

Joan of Arc was born around 1412 and died 1431, she believed god chose her to lead France yo victory agianst England, she achieved a momentous victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians, then got captured and burned by Anglo-Burgundian forces and tried for witchcraft and heresy.

Christine De Pisan

1430

Christine De Pizan was a poet that was born September 11, 1364 and died in the year 1440 AD, she was a medieval writer and historiographer who advocated for women's equality.