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1378 BCE
The Great Schism
The Great Schism was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 in which two men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, and each excommunicated one another. -
1348 BCE
The Black Death
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia, peaking in Europe from 1348 to 1350. -
1315 BCE
The Great Famine
The Great Famine was the first of a series of large scale crises that struck Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe was affected. The famine caused millions of deaths over an extended number of years and marked a clear end to the period of growth and prosperity from the 11th to the 13th centuries -
1215 BCE
Magna Carta is signed
Magna Carta was signed on 15 June by King John of England in Runnymede, Surrey, Magna Carta was meant as a peace treaty between King John and his subjects, and demanded that every person had to obey the law, including the king. -
1095 BCE
The First Crusade is decreed
The First Crusade was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II. -
800 BCE
Charlemagne, the Emperor of Romans
Charlemagne was a medieval emperor who ruled much of Western Europe from 768 to 814. In 771, Charlemagne became king of the Franks, a Germanic tribe in present-day Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and western Germany. -
476 BCE
The Fall of Western Roman Empire
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities.