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Start of Middle Ages
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Period: 500 to
Middle Ages
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Nov 1, 636
Seige of Jerusalem
The Siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 was the decisive event of the First Jewish/Roman War. The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been occupied by its Jewish defenders in AD 66. -
Jul 6, 1189
King Richard the Lionheart
Richard was a king of England, later known as the 'Lion Heart', and famous for his exploits in the Third Crusade, although during his 10-year reign he spent only six months in England. -
Jan 1, 1347
The First outbreakof the Bubonic
Bubonic plague is a zoonotic disease, circulating mainly in fleas on small rodents, and is one of three types of bacterial infections caused by Yersinia pestis, that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Without treatment, the bubonic plague kills about two thirds of infected humans within four days. In 2013 there was about 750 documented cases of plague which resulted in 126 deaths. -
Jan 1, 1349
the Black Death
The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October 1347 when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. The people who gathered on the docks to greet the ships were met with a horrifying surprise: Most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those who were still alive were gravely ill. -
christianity
Christianity would grow to dominate Europe by the 5th century AD, but its humble beginnings can be traced to the adjacent continent of Asia, in a backwater of the Roman Empire known as Judea. It began as a small Jewish movement in and around Jerusalem, which purported that the Son of God had lived and preached among them during the early 1st century.
