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Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1527
Middle ages
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Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1000
Early middle ages
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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 1, 1300
High middle ages
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Jan 1, 1054
Great Schism
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Oct 14, 1066
william the conquorer invades england
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Jan 1, 1096
First Crusade
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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1099
First crusade
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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1099
First crusades
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Period: Jan 1, 1140 to Jan 1, 1270
rise of european universities
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1527
Late middle ages
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Period: Jan 1, 1337 to Jan 1, 1453
Hundred Years’ War between France and England
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Period: Jan 1, 1347 to Jan 1, 1352
Bubonic Plague
25 million people died -
Period: Jan 1, 1347 to Jan 1, 1350
Black death is at its height
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Period: Feb 5, 1347 to Feb 5, 1350
Black Death at its height
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Jan 1, 1375
Birth of humanism
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Period: Jan 1, 1375 to Jan 1, 1527
Renaisance in Italy
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Period: Jan 1, 1375 to Jan 1, 1527
Renaissance in Italy
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Jan 1, 1397
Platonism arrives in Italy
Manuel Chrysoloras travels from Constantinople to Florence to promote the study of Plato.
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Mar 15, 1415
Jan Hus burned at the stake
Czech priest Jan Hus was executed for heresy by the Catholic Church in Prague. Hus had argued that many Catholic practices (such as indulgences) went against Catholic theory - initially causing him to be excommunicated and, later, executed. -
Jan 1, 1450
gutenburg printing press
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Jan 1, 1453
Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire
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May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks
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Jan 1, 1469
Lorenzo de Medici comes to power in Florence
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Jan 1, 1486
Pico publishes “Oration”
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Jan 1, 1492
Charles Martel halts a Muslim advance into France
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Jan 1, 1513
machiovelli "the prince"
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Jan 1, 1514
Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
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Mar 14, 1517
Martin Luther's "Ninety Five Theses"
Martin Luther hangs his famous "Ninety Five Theses" on the doors of the Catholic Church in Wittenberg, Germany (the Holy Roman Empire) condemning Catholic practices of indulgences. -
Period: Jan 1, 1525 to
Reformation
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Jan 1, 1532
Machiavelli’s The Prince is published
