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476
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the period of decline of the Western Roman Empire when it lost the authority to exercise its rule and its vast territory was divided into numerous successor political entities, September 4, 476 AD. c. -
476
Feudalism
Dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection. -
Period: 476 to 1492
Middle ages
The Middle Ages is the historical period from the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476) to the Discovery of America (1492). This long historical period, also known as feudalism, was a social, political and economic organization based on land and vassalage. -
495
The emergence of the monasteries
Arose from the need of the cenobites or monks to find a place to share and lead a life of isolation and prayer, both in Christianity and in other religions, in 495. -
1095
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars promoted by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, their stated goal was to recover for Christianity the region of the Middle East known as the Holy Land, which had been under the rule of Islam since the 7th century, between 1095 y 1291. -
1095
Holy land
Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the Western world revolved around the Crusades, eight military expeditions aimed at freeing the Holy Land from Muslim rule and which generated important changes in Europe. -
1291
End of crusades
After 200 years of supposed holy war, the last chapter of the Crusades began to be written on April 18, 1291. That day the Mamelukes assaulted the last Christian possession in the Holy Land, San Juan de Acre. -
1323
The XIV a century of wars
France experienced that of the Jacquerie (1357), an outburst of hatred of the humble classes towards the lords. England also saw a peasant uprising in 1381, although the bloodiest was in Flanders between 1323 and 1328. -
1347
Bubonic plage
Patients develop fever, headache, chills, and weakness and one or more swollen, painful lymph nodes (called buboes). This form is usually the result of an infected flea bite. The bacteria multiply in a lymph node near where the bacteria entered the human body.
It start on Europe in October 1347. -
1353
End of the Bubonic plague:
The plague disappeared until the fourteenth century. -
End of feudalism
The French Revolution solemnly abolished "all feudal rights" on the night of August 4, 1789 and "definitively the feudal regime", with the decree of August 11.