MiddleAges

By josehernandez12
  • 476

    Fall of Rome

    Fall of Rome
    Rome had to much power so Rome had no control of the empire.Rome was an empire for many years. Some compare ancient Rome's problems with Britain's problems and America's problems.
  • Oct 10, 732

    Battle of Tours

    Battle of Tours
    October 10, 732 AD marks the conclusion of the Battle of Tours, arguably one of the most decisive battles in all of history.
  • Oct 1, 775

    Carolingian Renaissance

    Carolingian Renaissance
    Carolingian Renaissance stands out as a period of intellectual and cultural revival in Europe occurring from the late eighth century
  • Jan 1, 1096

    First Crusde

    First Crusde
    The First Crusade (1096–1099) was a military expedition by Western Christianity to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem.
  • Nov 7, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions, which included the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority to date.
  • Jan 9, 1324

    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo
    He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time.
  • Oct 19, 1350

    Black Plague

    Black Plague
    Of several competing theories, the dominant explanation for the Black Death is the plague theory, which attributes the outbreak to the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

  • St. Benedict

    St. Benedict
    The only authentic life of Benedict of Nursia is that contained in the second book of St. Gregory's.

  • Vikings discover the New World

    Vikings discover the New World
    In 986, Bjarni Herjolfsson, experimented navigator and adventurer, left Norway to reach Iceland close to the winter. He found that his father had left as part of a fleet led by Erik the Red to colonize a huge land situated to the West and attractively named "Greenland."

  • Code of Justinian

    Code of Justinian
    Corupus Iurus Civilis or the Justinian Code, was the result of Emperor Justinian's desire that existing Roman law be collected into a simple and clear system of laws, or "code." Tribonian, a legal minister under Justinian, lead a group of scholars in a 14-month effort to codify existing Roman law.