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1492 BCE
Columbus sails to the Americas
Christopher Columbus leads a voyage Atlantic Ocean, hoping to reach Asia and instead discovers America -
1348 BCE
The Black Death
The Black Death was the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history which resulted in the deaths of up to 75–200 million people in Eurasia, North Africa and Europe -
1337 BCE
The Hundred Years' War
A series of conflicts in Europe over the right to rule the Kingdom of France. -
1315 BCE
The Great Famine
A series of crop failures and bad weather that struck large parts of Europe. -
1215 BCE
Magna Carta
A charter made by King John of England which established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king, and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right to justice and the right to a fair trial -
1206 BCE
Genghis Khan becomes ruler of Mongols
Temüjin unites the various tribes in Mongolia, and begins a number of conquests that would stretch across Asia and parts of Europe. -
1096 BCE
The First Crusade
The first series of religious wars supported by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The initial objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule -
1066 BCE
The battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest
A war between the Norman-French army of William and an English army led by King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England -
732 BCE
Charles the Hammer and the Battle of Tours
Charles Martel defeats a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe which ensured the ruling dynasty of Martel's family -
476
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
The process of decline in the Western Roman Empire which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor which ended the Empire
