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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. The Byzantine conquest of Italy completes.






2. The future emperor Henry VI marries Constance of Sicily - heiress to the Sicilian throne.This marriage shifts the focus of the Guelphs/Ghibelline struggle to Sicily and marks the ruin of the House of Hohenstaufen.






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






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






5. 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.






6. Trial and execution of Joan of Arc.Death of the woman who helped turned the Hundred Years' War in favor of the French over the past two years.






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






8. Fourth Lateran Council. Dealt with transubstantiation - papal primacy and conduct of clergy. Proclaimed that Jews and Muslims should wear identification marks to distinguish them from Christians.






9. Mieszko I becomes duke of Polans.First historical ruler of Poland and de facto founder of the Polish State.






10. Battle of AnkaraBayezid I is captured by Tamerlane's forces - causing the interregnum of the Ottoman Empire.






11. 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%






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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.






16. Ends of the Three Kingdoms period in Korea.






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






18. Kingdom of Portugal conquers Ceuta.Beginning of the Portuguese Empire.






19. Slav occupation of Balkans complete.






20. 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






21. Battle of Lechfeld. Otto the Great - son of Henry the Fowler - defeats the Magyars.This is the defining event that prevents the Hungarians from entering Central Europe.






22. The Anarchy begins in England.This will mark a 19 year period of Government strife and Civil War between the supporters of Stephen and Matilda - and end with the crowning of Matilda's son - Henry II - and beginning the Plantagenet dynasty.






23. Battle of Bannockburn.Robert the Bruce restores Scotland's de facto independence.






24. Ends of the Three Kingdoms period in Korea.






25. Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.Considered to be the beginning of the decline of the Byzantine Empire.






26. 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.






27. 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






28. Death of Alfred the Great.






29. 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.






30. Death of Charlemagne.Would be a factor towards the splitting of his empire almost 30 years later.






31. Founding of the Franciscan Order.One of the more significant orders in the Roman Catholic church - founded by Saint Francis of Assisi.






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






33. Windmills are first recorded.






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






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






36. Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow led a united Russian army to a victory over the Mongols in the Battle of Kulikovo.






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






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






39. Lothair of Supplinburg - duke of Saxony - is elected Holy Roman Emperor instead of the nearest heir - Frederick of Swabia.This election marks the beginning of the great struggle between the Guelfs and the Ghibellines.






40. Muslims take Alexandria.






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






42. The West Saxons continue their advance at the Battle of Deorham.






43. NovemberPope Lucius III issues the papal bull Ad Abolendam.This bull set up the organization of the medieval inquisitions.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. Children's Crusade.






47. 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.






48. Richard II abdicates the throne to Henry of Bolingbroke - who becomes Henry IV of England.End of Plantagenet Dynasty - beginning of the Lancaster lineage of kings.






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






50. The reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire.