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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. Windmills are first recorded.






2. 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.






3. Battle of Kosovo in Serbia.This was in many respects the decisive battle between the Turks - led by Sultan Murat - and Christian army - led by the Serbs and their duke Lazar. The battle took place in Kosovo - the southern province of the Medieval Ser






4. Heian periodin Japan.Considered to be the last classical period of History of Japan. Chinese influence was at its strongest during this era in Japan.






5. Iceland is settled by Norsemen.






6. Death of Simeon I the Great. Recognition of the Bulgarian Patriarchate - the first independent National Church in Europe.






7. In the Battle of Naklo - Boleslaus III Wrymouth defeats the Pomeranians.Polish access to the sea is re-established.






8. Founding of the University of Paris.






9. Saint Columba founds mission in Iona.






10. Jerusalem captured by Muslims.






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






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






13. The University of Heidelberg is founded.It is the oldest university in Germany.






14. Henry the Fowler - Duke of Saxony elected German King.First king of the Ottonian Dynasty.Henry I considered the founder and first king of the medieval German state.






15. Simeon I becomes ruler of theFirst Bulgarian Empire in the Balkans.






16. The first known merchant guild.






17. 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






18. Harold Fairhair becomes King of Norway.






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






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






21. St. Norbert and 29 companions make their solemn vows marking the beginning of the Premonstratensian Order.This order played a significant role in evangelizing the Slavs - the Wends - to the east of the Holy Roman Empire.






22. Muslims take Alexandria.






23. Accession of Abu Bakr as first Caliph.






24. The East-West Schism which divided the church into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.Tensions will vary between the Catholic and Orthodox churches throughout the Middle Ages.






25. John I Tzimiskes murders Nikephoros II and is crowned Byzantine co-emperor in his place.






26. Beginning of the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy during which the Popes moved to Avignon.Begins a period of over seven decades of the Papacy outside of Rome that would be one of the major factors of the Western Schism.






27. Honen Shonin (Genku) founds the Jodo shu (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.This event marks the beginning of the Buddhist sectarian movement in Japan.






28. 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.






29. Honen Shonin (Genku) founds the Jodo shu (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.This event marks the beginning of the Buddhist sectarian movement in Japan.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. Vikings attack Paris.






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. Heian periodin Japan.Considered to be the last classical period of History of Japan. Chinese influence was at its strongest during this era in Japan.






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






42. The Knights Templar are rounded up and murdered by Philip the Fair of France - with the backing of the Pope.Hastens the demise of the order within a decade.






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






44. Slav occupation of Balkans complete.






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. The Empire of Trebizond falls to the Ottoman Turks.Last Roman outpost to be conquered by the Ottomans.






50. 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.







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