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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. The Hanseatic League is founded.This marks a new period of trade and economic development for northern and western Europe.






2. At the Battle of Legnano - the cavalry of Frederick Barbarossa is defeated by the infantry of the Lombard League.This is the first major defeat of cavalry by infantry - signaling the new role of the bourgeosie.






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






4. Death of Bede.Bede was later regarded as 'the father of English history'






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. The Concordat of Worms was drawn up between Emperor Henry V and Pope Calixtus II.This concordat ended the investiture struggle - but bitter rivalry between emperor and pope remained.






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






9. Beginning of Charlemagne's reign.






10. Slav occupation of Balkans complete.






11. Windmills are first recorded.






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






13. 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.






14. Onin War takes place in Japan.First of many significant civil wars between shogunates that would continue for another century during the Muromachi period.






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






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






17. 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.






18. Basil II (called 'Bulgar Slayer') begins final conquest of Bulgaria by Eastern Empire.Conquest finished by 1018.






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






20. 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






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






22. Battle of Tertry






23. Emperor Go-Daigo returns to the throne from exile - and begins the Kenmu restoration.The Kamakura Shogunate comes to an end - and the Kenmu Restoration only lasts a few years before the Ashikaga Shogunate begins.






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






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






26. 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






27. North South States Period begins in Korea.






28. Jerusalem captured by Muslims.






29. Ramon Berenguer IV - Count of Barcelona - married Queen Petronilla of Aragon. They had been betrothed in 1137.This marriage gave the Kingdom of Aragon access to the Mediterranean Sea - creating a powerful kingdom which expanded to control many of the






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






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






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






33. Chinese Naval Expeditions of Southeast Asia and theIndian Ocean (to Eastern Africa) begins - under the leadership of Zheng He.This will be the first of seven of the Ming Dynasty-sponsored expeditions - lasting until 1433.






34. Iconoclast movement begun in the Byzantine Empire under Leo III. This was opposed by Pope Gregory II - and an important difference between the Roman and Byzantine churches.






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






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






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






38. The Seljuks under Alp Arslan defeat the Byzantine army at Manzikert. The Normans capture Bari - the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy.Beginning of the end of Byzantine rule in Asia Minor.






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. King Henry II of England lands in Ireland to assert his supremacy and the Synod of Cashel acknowledges his sovereignty.With his landing - Henry begins the English claim to and occupation of Ireland which would last some seven and a half centuries.






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






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






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






47. Battle of SzebenThird significant victory for the Hungarian forces led by Janos Hunyadi over the Ottoman forces.






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






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






50. 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.