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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. Massive Chinese (Sui and Tang) invasions against Korean Goguryeo.Contributed to the fall of the Sui Dynasty - and Goguryeo fell under the forces of the Tang and Silla.






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






3. The University of Cambridge is founded.






4. The final Peace of Constance between Frederick Barbarossa - the pope - and the Lombard towns is signed.The various articles of the treaty destroyed the unity of the Empire and Germany and Italy underwent separate developments.






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






6. Edward the Elder - son of Alfred - defeats the Northumbrian Vikings at the Battle of Tettenhall; they never raid south of the River Humber again.






7. Battle of Anchialus. Simeon I the Great defeats the Byzantines.Recognition of the Imperial Title of the Bulgarian rulers.






8. Ladislaus of Naples sells his 'rights' on Dalmatia to the Venetian Republic for 100000 ducats.Dalmatia would with some interruptions remain under Venetian rule for nearly four centuries - until 1797.






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






10. 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






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






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






13. Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks.End of the Byzantine Empire (or Eastern Roman Empire to some); Constantinople becomes capital of Ottoman Empire.






14. Battle of St. AlbansTraditionally marks the beginning of the War of the Roses.






15. Christianization of Bulgaria.






16. Windmills are first recorded.






17. 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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






25. Battle of Roncevaux Pass.






26. TheFirst Lateran Council followed and confirmed the Concordat of Worms.






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






28. The final Peace of Constance between Frederick Barbarossa - the pope - and the Lombard towns is signed.The various articles of the treaty destroyed the unity of the Empire and Germany and Italy underwent separate developments.






29. The Kingdom of the Lombards is founded in Italy.






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






31. Canute the Great becomes King of England after the death of Edmund Ironside - who he shared the English throne with.Danes become kings of England for the next 26 years before the last rise of the Anglo-Saxons before the Norman Conquest.






32. Christianization of Bulgaria.






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






34. Pepin founds the Carolingian dynasty.






35. 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.






36. Ladislaus of Naples sells his 'rights' on Dalmatia to the Venetian Republic for 100000 ducats.Dalmatia would with some interruptions remain under Venetian rule for nearly four centuries - until 1797.






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






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






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






40. August 26thBattle of Cr






41. 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.






42. Battle of Roncevaux Pass.






43. Battle of Adrianople. The Bulgarians under Emperor Kaloyan defeat Baldwin I.Beginning of the decline of the Latin Empire.






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






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






46. 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






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






48. Iceland is settled by Norsemen.






49. Siege of BelgradeMajor Ottoman advances are halted for 7 decades - last major victory for Hunyadi.






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