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476
Fall of Rome
The fallof Rome marked the begining of the middle ages. In 476 AD emperor Romulus Auustulus, is depsed by the barbarian general Odoacer. This event marks the end of one period, and the begining of another. -
542
Bubonic Plague
The bubonic plague spreads to all urban establishments in the Mediterranean Basin. Rapidly spread all over the island. through the port's trade with Constantinople, and ports on the Black Sea. -
Aug 17, 631
The death of Prophet Mohammad.
A few months after returning to Medina from The Farewell Pilgrimage, Muhammad fell ill and died. Before his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam, and he had united Arabia into a single Muslim religious polity. -
Sep 9, 1016
Canute the Great
England receives Danish King in the form of Canute the Great. By dividing the country (1017) into the four great earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, and Northumbria, he instituted the system of territorial lordships which would underlie English government for centuries. The very last Danegeld ever paid, a sum of £82,500, went to Canute in 1018. He felt secure enough to send the invasion fleet back to Denmark with £72,000 that same year. -
Apr 20, 1049
The Great Schism
Papal throne is ascended by Pope Leo IX. This marks the beginning of the Great Schism. n 1049, Leo IX became pope, at last a pope with the character to face the papacy's problems. He traveled to the major cities of Europe to deal with the church's moral problems firsthand, notably simony and clerical marriage and concubinage. With his long journey, he restored the prestige of the papacy in the north. -
Dec 19, 1086
Doomsday Book
Doomsday Book is compiled. The purpose of Domesday was to create a record of land ownership and value so William could set his taxes in order to prepare for war with the Danes. -
Jul 20, 1100
The Medieveal Warm Period
The Medieval Warm Period, Medieval Climate Optimum, or Medieval Climatic Anomaly was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that may also have been related to other climate events around the world during that time. -
Jun 19, 1119
Order of Knights
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, commonly known as the Knights Templar were among the most wealthy and powerful of the Western Christian military orders and were among the most prominent actors of the Christian finance.The organisation existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages. -
Dec 19, 1135
The Anarchy
The Anarchy was a war in England and Normandy between 1135 and 1154, characterised by a breakdown in law and order. The conflict originated with a succession crisis towards the end of the reign of Henry I, when the king's only legitimate son, William Adelin, died aboard the White Ship in 1120. Henry's attempts to install his daughter, the Empress Matilda, as his successor were unsuccessful and on Henry's death in 1135, his nephew Stephen of Blois took power with the help of his brother. -
Feb 21, 1215
Fourth Lateran Council
Council of the Roman Catholic Church, convened at the Lateran Palace, Rome, by Pope Innocent III to crown the work of his pontificate. It was one of the most important councils ever held, and its canons sum up Innocent's ideas for the church. -
May 1, 1299
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was an imperial state that was founded in 1299 after growing out of the break-down of several Turkish tribes. The empire then grew to include many areas in what is now present-day Europe to and it eventually became one of the largest, most powerful and longest-lasting empires in the history of the world. -
Jul 3, 1347
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 and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53. -
Nov 5, 1429
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans", is considered a heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Joan said she received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. -
Feb 20, 1492
Christopher Columbus lands in America
Christopher Columbus was a Genoese explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World. -
Jul 13, 1497
Dom Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama
chandrakantmarwa… Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitively, and in this way, the West and the Orient. -
Jan 9, 1500
The Reinaissance begins
The Reinaissance period begins in Europe. It marks the end of the Middle Ages. The Reinaissance was a term coined by Petrarch which means a rebirth of classical Greek and Roman ideals. -
Treaty of Verdun
Separated Holy Roman Empire and France. The Treaty of Verdun, signed in August 843, was the first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms among the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Charlemagne. The treaty signed in Verdun-sur-Meuse ended the three-year Carolingian Civil War. -
Otto the Great
Otto the Great crowned the Holy Roman Emperor in 40 years. Otto I, also known as Otto the Great, was German king from 936 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 962 until his death in 973. Otto was "the first of the Germans to be called the emperor of Italy". -
The Peace and Truce of God
The Peace and Truce of God was a medieval European movement of the Catholic Church that applied spiritual sanctions to limit the violence of private war in feudal society. It began with very limited provisions in 989 AD and survived in some form until the thirteenth century. -
Clovis & The Goths
The Frankish tribes are united by Clovis after he became the king of Franks by defeating the Visigoths in the Battle of Vouille. Clovis continued his war with the Visigoths, eventually meeting them at the Battle of Vouille in 507 CE at near Poitiers, a city in west-central Gaul, where he defeated and killed their king, Alaric II.
