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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. June 16Battle of Stoke.Marks end of the War of the Roses.






2. University of Bologna is formed.It is the oldest university in Europe.






3. Pepin founds the Carolingian dynasty.






4. Accession of Abu Bakr as first Caliph.






5. Succession of Hugh Capet to the French Throne.Beginning of Capetian Dynasty.






6. JingkangIncidentThe Jurchen soldiers sack Kaifeng - bringing an end to the Northern Song Dynasty in China; the Song moves further south and makes Lin'an their new capital.






7. King William I of Scotland - captured in the Battle of Alnwick by the English - accepts the feudal lordship of the English crown and does ceremonial allegiance at York.This is the beginning of the gradual acquisition of Scotland by the English.






8. MarchThe Third Lateran Council limits papal electees to the cardinals alone - condemns simony - and forbids the promotion of anyone to the episcopate before the age of thirty.






9. Harold Fairhair becomes King of Norway.






10. Chaucer begins to write The Canterbury Tales.Chaucer's greatest work - and one of the foundations towards the formation of the Modern English language






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






12. The Ninth Crusade occurs.Considered to be theLast Major Crusade to take place in the Holy Land.






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






14. Muslims take Carthage.






15. The fall of the Yuan Dynasty. Its remnants - known as Northern Yuan - continued to rule Mongolia.The breakup of the Mongol Empire - which marked the end of Pax Mongolica.






16. The reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire.






17. Thomas Malory composes Le Morte d'Arthur






18. 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.






19. August 24Rome is sacked by Alaric - King of the Visigoths.Decisive event in the decline of the Western Roman Empire






20. William the Conqueror - Duke of Normandy - invades England and becomes King after the Battle of Hastings.End of Anglosaxon rule in England and start of Norman lineage.






21. Serbian Orthodox Church becomes autocephalous under St. Sava - its first Archbishop.






22. Wang Geon unified Later Three Kingdoms of Korea.






23. Mieszko I of Poland and his court embrace Christianity - which becomes national religion.






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. Marco Polo publishes his tales of China - along with Rustichello da Pisa.A key step to the bridging of East and West in trade.






27. The first King of Croatia (rex Croatorum) - Tomislav (910






28. Sack of Lindisfarne. Viking attacks on Britain begin.Generally considered the beginning of the Viking Age that would span over two centuries - and reach as far south as Hispania and as far east as the Byzantine Empire - and present day Russia.






29. Muhammad Migrates from Mecca to Medina.Event will have designated first year of the Islamic Calendar - as Anno Hegirae.






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






31. Dante publishes his Divine Comedy.Is one of the most defining works of literature during the Late Middle Ages - and among the most recognizable in all of literature.






32. Grand Canal of China constructed.






33. Ottoman fleet defeats Venetians at the Battle of Zonchio.The first naval battle that used cannons in ships.






34. Serbian Orthodox Church becomes autocephalous under St. Sava - its first Archbishop.






35. Kievan Rus' is established.Would be sustained until the Mongol invasion of Rus' over four and a half centuries - despite peaking during the middle 11th century during the reign of Yaroslav the Wise.






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






37. Thomas Malory composes Le Morte d'Arthur






38. Roger II is crowned King of Sicily - a royal title given him by the Antipope Anacletus II.This coronation marks the beginning of the Kingdom of Sicily and its Mediterranean empire under the Norman kings - which was able to take on the Holy Roman Empi






39. 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.






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






41. TheFirst War of ScottishIndependence ends in Scottish victory with the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton and de jure independence.






42. Windmills are first recorded.






43. Pope Urban issues the Crusades to capture the Holy Land - and to repel the Seljuk Turks from the Byzantine Empire from Alexios I Komnenos.This would be the first of 9 Major Crusades - and a number of other crusades that would spread into the late 13t






44. 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






45. Battle of Tours. Charles Martel halts Muslim advance.Significant moment that led to the forming of the Carolingian Empire for the Franks - and halted the advancement of the Moors in Western Europe.






46. The Byzantine conquest of Italy completes.






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






48. Through the Compromise of 1107 - suggested by Adela - the sister of King Henry - theInvestiture Struggle in England is ended.This compromise removed one of the points of friction between the English monarchy and the Catholic Church.






49. Spanish Christians succeed in defeating the Moors in the long Reconquista campaigns - after the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.By 1248 - only the small southern kingdom of Granada remained under Muslim control.






50. Genghis Khan was elected as Khagan of the Mongols and the Mongol Empire was established.The Mongols would conquer much of Eurasia - changing former political borders.