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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press.Literature - News - etc. becomes more accessible throughout Europe.






2. Rome is sacked by Genseric - King of the Vandals






3. Arpad and the Magyars are present in Pannonia.






4. Battle of Nineveh.The Byzantines - under Heraclius - crush the Persians.






5. Children's Crusade.






6. Battle of Tertry






7. Kingdom of Croatia and Kingdom of Hungary formed a personal union of two kingdoms united under the Hungarian king. The act of union was deal with Pacta conventa - by which institutions of separate Croatian statehood were maintained through the Sabor






8. Cluny Abbey is founded by William I - Count of Auvergne.Cluny goes on to become the acknowledged leader of Western Monasticism. Cluniac Reforms initiated with the abbey's founding.






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






10. Sui Dynasty in China.China unified once again during this period for the first time in almost 400 years.






11. Turkic Muslim invaders sack and burn the university at Nalanda.This is the beginning of the decline of Buddhism inIndia.






12. Grand Canal of China constructed.






13. According to Theophanes Continuatus (The Continuer of Theophanes's Chronicle) - Tomislav of Croatia defeated Bulgarian army of Tsar Simeon I under Duke Alogobotur - in battle of the Bosnian Highlands.Bulgarian expansion to the west was stopped.






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






15. The reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire.






16. Byzantines - under Belisarius - retake North Africa from the Vandals.






17. Battle of VarnaFinal battle of the Crusade of Varna; Ottomans are victorious over the Hungarian-Polish armies - and Wladyslaw III of Poland dies.






18. Basil II (called 'Bulgar Slayer') begins final conquest of Bulgaria by Eastern Empire.Conquest finished by 1018.






19. Tang Dynasty in China.The essential administrative system of this dynasty lasts for 286 years.






20. First Arab siege of Constantinople.First time Islamic armies defeated - preventing Europe from Islamic conquest.






21. Muslims capture Bari and much of southern Italy.






22. Provisions of Oxford forced upon Henry III of England.This establishes a new form of government-limited regal authority.






23. Kenneth McAlpin becomes king of the Picts and Scots - creating the Kingdom of Alba.






24. 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.






25. Christianization of Bulgaria.






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






27. The Byzantine conquest of Italy completes.






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






29. According to Theophanes Continuatus (The Continuer of Theophanes's Chronicle) - Tomislav of Croatia defeated Bulgarian army of Tsar Simeon I under Duke Alogobotur - in battle of the Bosnian Highlands.Bulgarian expansion to the west was stopped.






30. Hussite Wars begins after 4 years after the death of Jan Hus in central Europe - dealing with the followers of Jan Hus and those against them.Although the war was a stalemate (ended around 1434) - it was a another factor that between the Catholics an






31. The Byzantines under Basil II conquer Bulgaria after a bitter 50-years struggle.Concludes the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria.






32. Kingdom of Croatia and Kingdom of Hungary formed a personal union of two kingdoms united under the Hungarian king. The act of union was deal with Pacta conventa - by which institutions of separate Croatian statehood were maintained through the Sabor






33. Saladin recaptures Jerusalem.Would lead to the Third Crusades.






34. Song Dynasty begins after Emperor of Taizu usurps the throne from the Later Zhou Dynasty - last of the Five Dynasties.A 319 year period of Song rule (Northern & Southern combined) goes underway.






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






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






37. Battle of Agincourt. Henry V and his army defeat a numerically superior French army - partially because of the newly-introduced English longbow.The turning point in the Hundred Years' War for 15th Century England that lead to the signing of the Treat






38. Iceland is settled by Norsemen.






39. 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






40. Battle of Mons Badonicus.The West Saxon advance is halted by Britons.






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






42. Justinian I publishes the Code of Civil Law.This compiled centuries of legal writings and imperial pronouncements into three parts of one body of law.






43. The Construction of the Tower of London begins.The tower of London was the ultimate keep of the British Empire.






44. 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.






45. Pepin founds the Carolingian dynasty.






46. Tang Dynasty in China.The essential administrative system of this dynasty lasts for 286 years.






47. Dionysius Exiguus publishes the Dionysius Exiguus' Easter table.This initiated the Anno Domini era - used for the Gregorian and Julian calendars.






48. The Black Death ravages Europe for the first of many times. An estimated 20% - 40% of the population is thought to have perished within the first year.The first of many concurrences of this plague - This was believed to have wiped out as many as 50%






49. Saladin recaptures Jerusalem.Would lead to the Third Crusades.






50. Battle of Yamen.Marks the end of the Song Dynasty in China - and all of China is under the rule of Kublai Khan as the emperor.







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