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476
476CE: The fall of the Western Roman Empire
The Western Roman Empire fell in 476, and then the Western imperial court was formally dissolved in 480. The Eastern imperial court survived until 1453. In 476, after the Battle of Ravenna, the Roman Army in the West suffered defeat at the hands of Odoacer and his Germanic foederati. -
800
Charlemagne, the Emporer of Romans
Charlemagne or Charles the Great, numbered Charles I, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Romans from 800. He united most of western europe and Central Europe in the middle ages -
1095
The first crusade is decreed
In 1069 - 1099 The first Crusade was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095. -
1215
Magna Carta is signed
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.