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Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1300
Middle Ages
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527
Justinian Gets Power
On this date Justinian became the Eastern Roman Emperor. Shortly after becoming the emperor puts the Code Of Civil Law. -
Oct 22, 677
Failed capture
The Arabs attempt to capture Constantinople but fail. Thier failure makes others bieleve they cant conquer and began trying to do so! -
Oct 22, 1025
Byzantine Aristocracy
The Byzantine Civilization begins to fall when the Byzantine Aristocracy begins to gain power over the goverment and starts to limit peasentry. -
Oct 22, 1071
Byzantines Defeated
The Byzantines are defeated by the Seljuk Turks. This now allows the Seljuk Turks to reclaim much of the Byzantine Province. -
Oct 22, 1099
Jerusalem Captured
As the First Crusade captures Jerusalem they begin to kill any Muslim inhabitants that they meet. They then divide the land that they find into four deifferent pieces. -
Oct 22, 1204
Constantinople is captured
The Fourth Crusade now captures Constantinople. This causes a strong hatred of the Byzantine Empire in Western Europe. -
Oct 22, 1261
Back To Constantinople
At this time the Byzantine Empire returns to Constantinople. -
Oct 22, 1300
Late Middle Ages Begin
The Middle Ages are now turned into the Late Middle Ages. The late middle ages is the origin for many great inventions that help at later dates. -
Pope Gregory
Pope Gregory, who started as a Benedictine, creates a religious policy for western Europe by putting together the Roman papacy with Benedictine ways which serves to counteract the badness of the Roman popes to Eastern emperors. -
Charelmagne
Charelmagne is crown emperor by the Pope in Rome. Some say that this leads to the spread of Christianity because he was a good supporter of monastaries. -
Charlemagne Dies
Charlemage surprisingly passes away leaving everything to his soul son, Louis the Pious, who has three sons. His son divides the land between his own three sons and they engage in Civil War. He trys to begin his own empire but it is soon over ran by many other people.
