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Many Women entered convents
The convent community in the Roman Catholic Church consists of women who share the same hopes and desires. These women are called “nuns or sisters”. Nuns live in Convents where they seek God through a life of prayer and work. Roman Catholic convents house over 800,000 women throughout the world -
400
Charles Martel led the franks against the Muslims
charles martel led against the muslims because of their belifes and their oppinons and the way they are so he went agianst them -
413
saladin became ruler of egypt
Saladin, was the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. A Muslim of Kurdish origins -
450
Europe reaches a high point
As Europe entered the period known as the High Middle Ages, the church became the universal and unifying institution. While some independence from feudal rule was gained by the rising towns after the fall of the Roman Empire. Because of the importance of the commune . -
500
Guilds
The continental system of guilds of merchants arrived in England after the Norman Conquest, with incorporated societies of merchants in each town or city holding exclusive rights of doing business there. In many cases they became the governing body of a town. -
575
Invention of the stirrup
By the late 6th or early 7th century, primarily due to invaders from Central Asia, such as the Avars, stirrups began spreading across Asia to Europe.In terms of archeaological finds, the iron pear-shaped form of stirrups, the ancestor of medieval European types, has been found in Europe in 7th century Avar graves in Hungary.A total of 111 specimens of early Avar-age, apple shaped, cast-iron stirrups with elongated suspension loop and flat, slightly inward bent tread had been excavated -
Jun 12, 750
Charlemagne is crowed by pope
Pope Saint Leo III (750 – 12 June 816) was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. Protected by Charlemagne from his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's position by crowning him Holy Roman Emperor -
Jan 24, 1070
England expelled Jews
The history of the Jews in England goes back to the reign of William I. The first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070, although Jews may have lived there since Roman times. The Jewish presence continued until King Edward I's Edict of Expulsion in 1290 -
Jan 30, 1073
Gregory VII elected Pope
Gregory VII, pope from 1073 to 1085. Hildebrand would seem to have been born in Tuscany,early in the third decade of the 11th century. The son of a plain citizen, Bunicus or Bonizo, he came to Rome at an early age for his education -
Jan 30, 1095
First Crusade capture Antioch in Syria
During the Middle Ages, the byzatine Empire in the east came under attack. Crusaders from europe capured jerusalem but were later driven out by the muslims -
Jan 24, 1096
pope Urban II calls the first Crusade
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant (632–661), ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. -
Feb 5, 1100
Last western roman emperor fell from power
The power of western roman fell from power because it over excected and had to much power -
Feb 5, 1167
oxford university is founded
The expulsion of foreigners from the University of Paris in 1167 caused many English scholars to return from France and settle in Oxford -
Jan 23, 1200
Saladin defeats the Christians and takes Jerusalem
The Holy City of Jerusalem was besieged on September 20. It was surrounded on every side by unbelievers, who shot arrows everywhere into the air. They were accompanied by frightening armaments and, with a great clamor of trumpets, they shrieked and wailed. -
Feb 5, 1240
Kiev falls to the mongols
In 1237, the Mongols began their invasion of Rus by conquering the northern principalities of Ryazan and Vladimir-Suzdal. In 1239, they advanced against southern Rus, capturing the cities of Pereyaslav and Chernihiv. -
Feb 4, 1265
Thomas Aquinas begins writing summa theologica
The Summa Theologiæ written 1265–1274 and also known as the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas. Although unfinished, the Summa is "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature -
Jan 29, 1347
Europe's building boom
The first recorded appearance of the plague in Europe was at Messina, Sicily in October of 1347. It arrived on trading ships that very likely came from the Black Sea, past Constantinople and through the Mediterranean. -
Jan 23, 1500
Most people in Western Europe are Catholic
Western Christianity developed and came to be predominant in most of Western, Northern, Central, Southern and parts of Eastern Europe, ancient Northern Africa, Southern Africa, and throughout Australia and the Western Hemisphere. When used of historical periods since the 16th century. -
Printing press invented
A printing press is a device for evenly printing ink onto a print medium such as paper or cloth. The device applies pressure to a print medium that rests on an inked surface made of moveable type, thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts -
Catholic Church set up the Inquistion
The Inquisition, was a group of decentralized institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to "fight against heretics". It started in 12th-century France to persecute heresy, and was later expanded to other European countries. Inquisition practices were used also on offences against canon law other than heresy. -
The Spanish defeat the Muslims and expel the Jews
The Middle Ages in Spain the the period from the Muslim conquest of 711 to the expulsion of the Jews and the defeat of the last Muslim ruler in 1492,witnessed an extraordinary "Golden Age" through the intermingling of its Jewish, Muslim, and Christian inhabitants. -
Europe divided into Feudal territories
feudalism, form of political and social organization typical of Western Europe from the dissolution of Charlemagne's empire to the rise of the absolute monarchies. The term feudalism is derived from the Latin feodum, for "fief," and ultimately from a Germanic word meaning "cow," generalized to denote valuable movable property. Although analogous social systems have appeared in other civilizations, the feudalism of Europe in the Middle Ages remains the common model of feudal society. -
The french defeat the English
the french called war because they thought that was the only way to get even and it ended out the french defeated the english -
Feudalism begins in Europe
The first elements of European Feudalism appeared in France and Germany in the 9th and 10th centuries. This coincided with the great military force organised by the Normans. Elements of the Roman regime were transferred to European feudalism -
Muslims capture Edessa
Muslim forces under the command of Imad ad-Din Zengi recapture Edessa, originally taken by Crusaders. -
Romans pull out of england
The end of Roman rule in Britain is the period during which the Roman Empire ended its relationship with Roman Britain, thus marking the transition from Roman Britain to post-Roman Britain. No single date is correct without qualification, as Roman rule ended for different parts of Britain at different times, and under different circumstances -
Siging of the Magna Carta
Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in the year 1215. It was translated into vernacular French as early as 1219, and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions. -
Joan of Arc inspires the French
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Flanders and Italy trade goods regularly
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Feudalism made Eurpoe safer
Some people had some strength, and the wherewithal to build fortresses, and the others needed protection, eventually, the serfs needed to be protected, even from their own lords, who would have them attacked if they didn't pay the taxes, and comply with the other rules -
Francis of Assisi Found Franciscan order
Francis’s spirit of detachment and poverty has influence over the more than 30 male orders and 300 provinces of female religious who today claim him as their spiritual father. In addition to the Friars Minor, Francis also founded the Third Order for laity who wished to lead a contemplative life in the world. Francis has been hailed as the most influential saint in post-apostolic times. -
Flanders and Itay trade goods regularly
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Joan of Arc inspires the French
joan arc inspires the french by fighting hard and staying strong in war and the french was very inspired -
The hundred years war
Flanders had grown to be the industrial center of northern Europe and had become extremely wealthy through its cloth manufacture. It could not produce enough wool to satisfy its market and imported fine fleece from England. England depended upon this trade for its foreign exchange. During the 1200's, the upper-class English had adopted Norman fashions and switched from beer to wine -
Ivan III drives mongols out of Russia
the arrival of a new invader the Mongols. In 1237 Batu Khan, a grandson of Jenghiz Khan, launched an invasion into Kievan Rus' from his capital on the lower Volga at present-day Kazan. -
france expelled jews
The history of the Jews of France dates back to the early Middle Ages. France was once a center of Jewish learning, but persecution increased as the Middle Ages wore on. France was the first country in Europe to emancipate its Jewish population during the French Revolution -
first outbreack of plague in china
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the cistercian order was founded
In 1098, a Benedictine abbot, Robert of Molesme, left his monastery in Burgundy with around twenty supporters, who felt that the Cluniac communities had abandoned the rigours and simplicity of St Benedict's Rule -
King Clovis becomes a Catholic
Clovis converted to Catholicism at the instigation of his wife, Clotilde, a Burgundian princess who was a Catholic in spite of the Arianism that surrounded her at court. He was baptized on Christmas Day, 496, in a small church in the vicinity of the subsequent Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims. -
The Vikings conquered part of western France
The first Viking raids began between 790 and 800 along the coasts of western France. They were carried out primarily in the summer, as the Vikings wintered in Scandinavia. Several coastal areas were lost during the reign of Louis the Pious (814–840). But the Vikings took advantage of the quarrels in the royal family caused after the death of Louis the Pious to settle their first colony in the south-west, of the kingdom of Francia, which was more or less abandoned by the Frankish king. -
Otto declared emperor of Romans
Otto was crowned Roman Emperor in 962 by Pope John XII, the same office Charlemagne held in 800. -
Vikings began trading in Europe
Viking Age Scandinavian settlements were set up along the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, primarily for trade purposes. Their appearance coincides with the settlement and consolidation of the Slavic tribes in the respective areas. Scandinavians had contacts to the Slavs since their very immigration, these first contacts were soon followed by both the construction of Scandinavian emporia and Slavic burghs in their vicinity -
Charlemagne died
The most likely date of Charlemagne's birth is reconstructed from a number of sources. The date of 742 calculated from Einhard's date of death of January 814 at age 72 suffers from the defect of being two years before the marriage of his parents in 744
