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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. The astrolabe - an ancient tool of navigation - is first used in Europe.






2. 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.






3. Pope Leo IX ascends to the papal throne.Leo IX was the pope that excommunicated Patriarch of Constantinople - Michael Cerularius (who also excommunitated Leo) - which caused the Great Schism.






4. August 22ndBattle of Bosworth Field.Richard III dies in battle - and Henry Tudor becomes king of England; last shift of Houses/kingship during the War of the Roses.






5. Mongol invasion of Rus' resumes.Causes the split of Kievan Rus' into three components (present day Russia - Ukraine - Belarus - greatly effects various regions of Eastern Europe; Golden Horde formed.






6. Rudolph I of Germany is elected Holy Roman Emperor.This begins the Habsburg de facto domination of the crown that lasted until is dissolution in 1806.






7. The Hundred Years' War ends.England's once vast territories in France is now reduced to only Calais - which they eventually lose control of as well.






8. Second Muslim attack on Constantinople - ending in failure. The combined Byzantine






9. Alfred the Great assumes the throne - the first king of a united England.He defended England from Viking invaders - formed new laws and fostered a rebirth of religious and scholarly activities.






10. 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.






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






12. Stefan Nemanja united Serbian territories - establishing the Medieval Serbian state.This marks the rise of Serbia which will dominate the Balkans for the next three hundred years. Allies of Serbia at this moment become the Hungarian Kingdom and the R






13. The Western Schism during which three claimant popes were elected simultaneously.The Avignon Papacy ends.






14. 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.






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






16. 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






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






18. Battle of Roncevaux Pass.






19. 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.






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






21. The University of Prague is founded.It its the oldest German-Speaking University in the world






22. Muslims under Tarik invade Spain.Will begin a period of Muslim rule within in the Iberian peninsula (with various portions of land) until nearly the end of the Fifteenth Century.






23. Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV walks to Canossa where he stands barefoot in the snow to beg forgiveness of the Pope for his offences - and admitting defeat in theInvestiture Controversy.This helps establish Papal rule over European heads of state for an






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






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






26. The University of Oxford is founded.It is the oldest university in the United Kingdom.






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






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






29. Sicilian Vespers. Sicilians massacres Angevins over a six-week period - after a Frenchman harassed a woman.Would mark a two decade period of war - and peace treaties between mainly between Aragon - Sicily - and the Angevin.






30. The Cistercian Order is founded.Was a return to the original observance of the Rule of St. Benedict.






31. Wang Geon unified Later Three Kingdoms of Korea.






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






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






34. Division of Charlemagne's Empire between his grandsons with the Treaty of Verdun.Sets the stage for the founding of the Holy Roman Empire and France as separate states.






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






36. 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.






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






38. Christopher Columbus reaches the New World.Age of Discovery into the New World begins.






39. 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.






40. The reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire.






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






45. Dictatus Papae in which Pope Gregory VII defines the powers of the pope.Peak of the Gregorian Reform - and an immense factor in theInvestiture Controversy.






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






47. PopeInnocent III calls for the Albigensian Crusade which seeks to destroy a rival form of Christianity practiced by the Cathars.






48. Death of Alfred the Great.






49. Slav occupation of Balkans complete.






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







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