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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. The Synod of Kells-Mellifont established the present diocesan system of Ireland (with later modifications) and recognized the primacy of Armagh.This synod marks the inclusion of the Irish Church into western European Catholicism.






2. Siege of BaghdadMongols (the Ilkhanate) ensure control of the region; Generally considered the end of the Islamic Golden Age.






3. Earliest known printed book in China with a date.






4. Battle of Ellandun. Egbert defeats Mercians.Wessex becomes the leading kingdom of England.






5. Genghis Khan dies.His kingdom is divided among his children and grandchildrenEmpire of the Great Khan - Chagatai Khanate - Mongolian Homeland - and the Blue Horde and White Horde. (Which would later become the Golden Horde.






6. Wang Geon unified Later Three Kingdoms of Korea.






7. Tang Dynasty ends with Emperor Ai deposed.The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in China commences.






8. Synod of Whitby.Roman Christianity triumphs over Celtic Christianity in England.






9. Joint Persian-Avar-Slav Siege of Constantinople Constantinople saved - Avar power broken and Persians henceforth on the defensive






10. The Second Crusade was in retaliation for the fall of Edessa - one of the first Crusader States founded in theFirst Crusade. It was an overall failure.This was the first Crusade to have been led by European Queens.






11. The Byzantine army defeats the Turks at Philomelion.The Turks abandon the entire coastal area of Anatolia and all of western Anatolia






12. Henry I of England defeats his older brother Robert Curthose - duke of Normandy - at the Battle of Tinchebrai - and imprisons him in Devizes castle; EdgarAtheling and William Clito are also taken prisoner.This victory made a later struggle between En






13. Leif Ericson is to settle during the winter in present day Canada at L'Anse aux Meadows.Ericson is to be the European to settle in the Americas during the Norse exploration of the Americas.






14. Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir becomes de facto ruler of Muslim Al-Andalus.Peak of power of Moorish Iberia under 'Almanzor'.






15. Augustine arrives in Kent.Christianization of Britain (Anglo-Saxons) begins.






16. Muslims capture Bari and much of southern Italy.






17. Tang Dynasty ends with Emperor Ai deposed.The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in China commences.






18. The Concordat of Worms was drawn up between Emperor Henry V and Pope Calixtus II.This concordat ended the investiture struggle - but bitter rivalry between emperor and pope remained.






19. Synod of Whitby.Roman Christianity triumphs over Celtic Christianity in England.






20. Accession of Abu Bakr as first Caliph.






21. Leif Ericson is to settle during the winter in present day Canada at L'Anse aux Meadows.Ericson is to be the European to settle in the Americas during the Norse exploration of the Americas.






22. The first cornerstone is laid for the construction of Notre Dame de Paris.






23. Christianization of Bulgaria.






24. King Henry II of England lands in Ireland to assert his supremacy and the Synod of Cashel acknowledges his sovereignty.With his landing - Henry begins the English claim to and occupation of Ireland which would last some seven and a half centuries.






25. Eric the Red - exiled from Iceland - begins Scandinavian colonization of Greenland.






26. The Battle of Nicopolis.The last great Crusade fails.






27. Death of Bede.Bede was later regarded as 'the father of English history'






28. The Bible is translated into English by John Wycliffe.First print published in English (Vulgate)






29. In the Battle of Hundsfeld - Boleslaus III Wrymouth defeats Emperor Henry V.German expansion to the east is stopped.






30. The Council of Constance ends.The Western Schism comes to a close - and elects Pope Martin V as the sole pope.






31. The Hundred Years' War begins. England and France struggle for dominance of Western Europe.The war will span through three/four different war periods within a 116 year period.






32. NovemberPope Lucius III issues the papal bull Ad Abolendam.This bull set up the organization of the medieval inquisitions.






33. The reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire.






34. The compilation of the Domesday Book - a great land and property survey commissioned by William the Conqueror to assess his new possessions.This is the first such undertaking since Roman times.






35. Accession of Harun al-Rashid in Baghdad.






36. Emperor Go-Daigo returns to the throne from exile - and begins the Kenmu restoration.The Kamakura Shogunate comes to an end - and the Kenmu Restoration only lasts a few years before the Ashikaga Shogunate begins.






37. The Viking Rollo and his tribe settle in what is now Normandy by the terms of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte - founding the Duchy of Normandy.






38. Abd-ar-Rahman III of the Ummayad dynasty in al-Andalus (part of the Iberian peninsula) takes the title of Caliph or ruler of the Islamic world.Beginning of the Caliphate of C






39. The Hanseatic League is founded.This marks a new period of trade and economic development for northern and western Europe.






40. The Bible is translated into English by John Wycliffe.First print published in English (Vulgate)






41. The Byzantine army defeats the Turks at Philomelion.The Turks abandon the entire coastal area of Anatolia and all of western Anatolia






42. Last great Roman-Persian War.Long conflict leaves both empires exhausted and unable to cope with the newly united Arab armies under Islam in the 630s






43. Kingdom of Portugal conquers Ceuta.Beginning of the Portuguese Empire.






44. Onin War takes place in Japan.First of many significant civil wars between shogunates that would continue for another century during the Muromachi period.






45. Trial and execution of Joan of Arc.Death of the woman who helped turned the Hundred Years' War in favor of the French over the past two years.






46. The Franks under Edward defeat the Visigoths in the Battle of Vouill






47. The Byzantine conquest of Italy completes.






48. Smederevo falls under the Turks.Marks the end of the Medieval Serbian Empire.






49. Death of John I Tzimiskes; Basil II (his co-emperor) takes sole power.Under Basil II zenith of the power of Eastern Empire after Justinian.






50. Viking 'Great Army' arrives in England.Northumbria - East Anglia - and Mercia were overwhelmed.