The middle ages

476CE: The Fall of Western Roman Empire

476

• 476CE: The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
The fall of the Western Roman Empire marks the beginning of the Middle Ages. Western’s Rome collapse was due to a string of military losses. Rome had fought with Germanic tribes for centuries. In the 300’s barbarian groups encroached beyond the Empire’s borders. Several decades the Empire was under threat. In 476CE the Germanic Leader Odoacer staged a revolt and deposed of the Emperor Romulus Augustulus.

800CE: Charlemagne, the Emperor of Romans

800

Charlemagne, or Charles the Great (742-814), or the Great barbarian Charlemagne, was a Frankish king of the middle ages around 800 and later crowned "emperor of the Romans".Charlemagne was a warrior (described as a 20-foot giant) with a clear sense of good and evil. During his 44 years in power, he launched 55 wars against Lombards, Saracens, Saxons, etc., controlled more than half of Europe, and took on the task of defending the Christian world under the guidance of angels.

1095CE: The First Crusade is decreed

1095

The first crusade was initiated by the western Christian world between 1096 and 1099 as a military operation to recover the levant shrine, which had been occupied during the Muslim conquest, and ended with the capture of Jerusalem by the crusaders in 1099. In 1095, Pope urban ii initially called for western volunteers to fight a Seljuk invasion from Anatolia at the request of the Byzantine emperor Alexei I.

1215CE: Magna Carta is signed

1215

The Magna Carta was signed 15 June 1215 at Runnymede by King John. Magna Carta means ‘great charter’. The Magna Carta has become one of the founding documents of the English legal system.
Magna Carta’s significance was not immediately recognised. England was in a period of political and military upheaval and King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta by rebel barons as part of peace negotiations.

1315-1317CE: The Great Famine

1315

The Irish famine, known as the potato crop, was a famine that occurred between 1845 and 1850. In five years, the population of British-ruled Ireland fell by almost a quarter; That number, in addition to starvation and illness, included about a million Irish who had emigrated because of the famine.

1348-1350CE: The Black Death

1348

Plague is a severe infectious disease caused by yersinia pestis infection. It is an international quarantinable infectious disease, and also an infectious disease among China's legal infectious diseases, ranking first among 39 legal infectious diseases. Plague is a natural infectious disease, which is mainly prevalent among rodents. Mice and marmots are the natural hosts of yersinia pestis. Rat fleas are the vectors.

1378-1417CE: The Great Schism

1378

The Pope’s residency between 1309-1377 in France. In 1377 Romans rioted to ensure the pope was a Roman, and with Gregory XI returning to Rome the Pope resided in Rome. Pope Urban VI was elected in 1378. Urban VI proved suspicious, a reformist, and prone to violent outbursts of bad temper. The cardinals that had elected him regretted their decision and in 1378 elected a rival pope, Robert of Geneva.