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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. 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






2. Augustine arrives in Kent.Christianization of Britain (Anglo-Saxons) begins.






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






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. The Byzantine conquest of Italy completes.






6. The Fourth Crusade sacked Croatian town of Zadar (ItalianZara) - a rival of Venice. Unable to raise enough funds to pay to their Venetian contractors - the crusaders agreed to sack the city despite letters from PopeInnocent III forbidding such an act






7. Ends of the Three Kingdoms period in Korea.






8. 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%






9. Synod of Whitby.Roman Christianity triumphs over Celtic Christianity in England.






10. 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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. Death of Muhammed.By this point - all of Arabia is Muslim.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. Wang Geon unified Later Three Kingdoms of Korea.






21. AprilThe Second Lateran Council declared clerical marriages invalid - regulated clerical dress - and punished attacks on clerics by excommunication.Enforces the major reforms that Gregory VII began to heavily campaign for several decades earlier.






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






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






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






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






26. Pepin founds the Carolingian dynasty.






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. July 6Richard I ascends the throne of England.His heavy taxation to finance his European ventures created an antipathy of barons and people toward the crown - but his being absent enabled the English to advance in their political development.






34. Accession of Abu Bakr as first Caliph.






35. Christianization of Bulgaria.






36. 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.






37. Jerusalem captured by Muslims.






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






39. 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.






40. Hussite Wars begins after 4 years after the death of Jan Hus in central Europe - dealing with the followers of Jan Hus and those against them.Although the war was a stalemate (ended around 1434) - it was a another factor that between the Catholics an






41. 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.






42. 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






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






44. The Byzantine conquest of Italy completes.






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






46. Pepin promises the Pope central Italy. This is arguably the beginning of the temporal power of the Papacy.






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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.