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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. 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.






2. Pope Gregory VII elevated to the papal throne.This begins a period of church reform.






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






4. The Battle of Stirling Bridge.William Wallace emerges as the leader of the Scottish resistance to England.






5. 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.






6. Arpad and the Magyars are present in Pannonia.






7. 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.






8. Windmills are first recorded.






9. Joan of Arc lifts the siege of Orl






10. 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.






11. Edward I of England invades Scotland - starting theFirst War of ScottishIndependence.






12. 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.






13. In Japan - the Soga clan falls.This initiates a period of imitation of Chinese culture - The Nara period begins a year later.






14. 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.






15. Battle of Roncevaux Pass.






16. Pepin founds the Carolingian dynasty.






17. 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.






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






19. Muslims take Carthage.






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






21. 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.






22. The Byzantine conquest of Italy completes.






23. August 26thBattle of Cr






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






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






26. The reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire.






27. 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%






28. Marco Polo publishes his tales of China - along with Rustichello da Pisa.A key step to the bridging of East and West in trade.






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






30. 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






31. Thomas Malory composes Le Morte d'Arthur






32. Succession of Hugh Capet to the French Throne.Beginning of Capetian Dynasty.






33. The compilation of the Domesday Book - a great land and property survey commissioned by William the Conqueror to assess his new possessions.This is the first such undertaking since Roman times.






34. 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.






35. The Ninth Crusade occurs.Considered to be theLast Major Crusade to take place in the Holy Land.






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






37. Ends of the Three Kingdoms period in Korea.






38. Muslims take Alexandria.






39. The Medici family rises to prominence in Florence.This ushers in a period of significance of the Medici's - such as bankers - popes - queens (regents) and dukes - throughout Europe (mainly Italy - especially the Florentine Republic) - over the next t






40. 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






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






42. Slav occupation of Balkans complete.






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






44. The fall of the Yuan Dynasty. Its remnants - known as Northern Yuan - continued to rule Mongolia.The breakup of the Mongol Empire - which marked the end of Pax Mongolica.






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






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






47. The fall of the Yuan Dynasty. Its remnants - known as Northern Yuan - continued to rule Mongolia.The breakup of the Mongol Empire - which marked the end of Pax Mongolica.






48. 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.






49. Beginning of Charlemagne's reign.






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