old age

Declaration of the Magna Carta

1215 BCE

The Magna Carta Libertatum, or the Great Charter of the Freedoms of England, was originally issued in 1215 A.D. This letter is considered the first step towards the constitutional government of England. The Magna Carta restricted the Emperor's power and demonstrated the importance of a Constitution.

The Holy Roman Empire of Germany

962 BCE

Otto I was the successor of Henry the Fowler, the Duke of Saxony who became the first Saxon emperor. Like his father, Otto I managed to protect the Germans against the Magyar invaders. He chose to create a German monastery. This natural loyalty to the German Church and kingdom helped him gain control over the dukes of the rebellion and establish his empire.

Treaty of Verdun

843 BCE

Louis the Pious was declared the successor, who ruled as the Emperor of the Romans. However, after his death, the Carolingian Empire faced a civil war due to the internal struggle between the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious who fought for the empress. Finally, the Carolingian Empire was divided into three parts in August 843 AD through the Treaty of Verdun, which ended a three-year civil war.

Charles "The Hammer" and the Battle of Tours

732 BCE

Charles Martel, also known as Charles "The Hammer," was a Francophone political and military leader who worked under the orders of the Merovingian kings as mayor of the palace. In 732 A.D., he defeated the Moorish invaders in the Battle of Tours, which permanently put an end to the Islamic invaders and their expansion into Western Europe.

Jerusalem history

638 BCE

The history of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages is generally a history of decline; Beginning as an important city in the Byzantine Empire, Jerusalem prospered during the first centuries of Muslim control (640-969), but under the rule of the Fatimid caliphate (late 11th to 11th centuries), its population decreased from approximately 200,000 to less than half.

The fall of the Roman Empire of the West

476 BCE

The fall of the Roman Empire of the West is considered as the beginning of the Middle Ages. The last Roman emperor was Julius Nepos, who was nominated by the eastern emperor Zeno. Nepo's rebellion dethroned Julius Nepos and declared his own son, Romulus Augustus, as the new emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

The onset of writing.

3 BCE

As we have advanced, the birth of writing marks the beginning of the Old Age. Each culture develops particular types of writing, such as the Egyptian, which represents objects by symbols, or Greek, which creates the first alphabet.

Stephen, King of Hungary

Jan 7, 1001

The Kingdom of Hungary was formed from the former Principality of Hungary with the coronation of Stephen I in the year 1000. This was the result of the conversion of Géza from Hungary to the Catholic Church in the 970s

The Battle of Hastings

Feb 6, 1066

On October 14, 1066, William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king: Harold II. William the Conqueror thus established the Norman Empire and to protect him he rewarded all his Norman supporters who fought for him in war with large portions of England's land.

la primera cruzada

Mar 11, 1189

Near the year one thousand, the pilgrimage to the Holy Land had increased, mainly due to the eschatological ideas that the period sowed, but also along with the increase in pilgrims, rumors of the cruelty with which Muslims treated pilgrims, Christians of East and monuments of the Western religion. At the beginning of the 11th century, more specifically the year 1033, Rodolfo el Lampiño, and who is partly credited with creating the mentality against the Muslim

Franciscan Order

Apr 23, 1209

The Franciscans - known as Lato Sensu as the Franciscan Order - strictly conform a set of related mendicant religious orders, within the framework of the Catholic Church and according to the ideology of Saint Francis of Assisi.Include:

• The First Order (1209), which includes the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, and the Order of the Capuchin Friars Minor;

Approval of the Order of Preachers

Apr 7, 1216

The order of preachers (from Latin: ordo praedicatorum or OP), also known as the Dominican order and its members as Dominicans, is a mendicant order of the Catholic Church founded by Domingo de Guzmán in Toulouse during the Albigensian Crusade and confirmed by Pope Honorius III on December 22, 1216.