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Top Ten Events of the Middle Ages

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  • The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
    476

    The Fall of the Western Roman Empire

    476 AD
    Freed Europe from a single power ended the ancient world and the middle ages were born. These Dark Ages brought the end to much that was Roman.
  • Treaty of Verdun
    483

    Treaty of Verdun

    483
    Treaty partitioning the Carolingian empire among the three surviving sons of the emperor Louis I (The Pious). The treaty was the first stage in the dissolution of the empire of Charlemagne and foreshadowed the formation of the modern countries of Western Europe.
  • The Formation of Islam
    700

    The Formation of Islam

    7th Century 601 AD-700 AD
    Islam started in Mecca, in modern day Saudi Arabia, during the time of the prophet Muhammed's life.
  • Battle of Tours
    732

    Battle of Tours

    732 (One Day)
    Helped lay the foundations of the Carolingian Empire and Frankish domination of Western Europe for the next century.
  • Chalermagne became an Emperor
    800

    Chalermagne became an Emperor

    800 CE
    Charlemagne was crowned emperor by the romans in 800 CE thus restoring the Roman Empire in the west for the first time since its dissolution in the 5th century. He was selected for a variety of reasons as well one of them being his long standing protectorate over the papacy.
  • The First Crusade
    1096

    The First Crusade

    1096-1099
    The first crusade was the first of a series of religious wars.
    The point of the war was to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule.
  • Magna Carta Libertatum
    1215

    Magna Carta Libertatum

    1215
    Issued as the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by by establishing law as power itself.
  • The 100 Years War
    1337

    The 100 Years War

    1337-1453
    A struggle between two kings of England and France.
    It was a series of intermittent battles on land and sea, raids, and sieges.
  • The Black Death
    1347

    The Black Death

    1347-1351
    A pandemic that ravaged Europe, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The black death is believed to be caused by an infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
  • Columbus discovers America
    1492

    Columbus discovers America

    1492
    Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships an made landfall in the Americas on 12 October, ending the period of human habitation in the Americas now referred to as the pre-Columbian era. His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani.