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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. According to Theophanes Continuatus (The Continuer of Theophanes's Chronicle) - Tomislav of Croatia defeated Bulgarian army of Tsar Simeon I under Duke Alogobotur - in battle of the Bosnian Highlands.Bulgarian expansion to the west was stopped.






2. Muslims capture Bari and much of southern Italy.






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. August 26thBattle of Cr






9. Joan of Arc lifts the siege of Orl






10. 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.






11. Christianization of Bulgaria.






12. The Hundred Years' War begins. England and France struggle for dominance of Western Europe.The war will span through three/four different war periods within a 116 year period.






13. Muhammed is born.Professed receiving revelations from God - which were recorded in the Qur'an - the basis of Islamic theology - in which he is regarded as the most important prophet.






14. 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.






15. Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir becomes de facto ruler of Muslim Al-Andalus.Peak of power of Moorish Iberia under 'Almanzor'.






16. Grand Canal of China constructed.






17. 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.






18. Establishment of the Bulgarian Empire.A country with great influence in the European history in the Middle Ages.






19. Slav occupation of Balkans complete.






20. 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.






21. Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas and agree to divide the World outside of Europe between themselves. The Italian Wars begin.Italian Wars will eventually lead to the downfall of the Italian city-states. Pope's ruling will lead to the






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






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






24. 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.






25. Children's Crusade.






26. The first known merchant guild.






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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. Death of Alfred the Great.






37. August 26thBattle of Cr






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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.






44. Thomas Malory composes Le Morte d'Arthur






45. Jerusalem captured by Muslims.






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






47. Rome is sacked by Genseric - King of the Vandals






48. At the Battle of Dan no Ura - Minamoto Yoshitsune annihilates the Taira clan.The elimination of the Taira leaves the Minamoto the virtual rulers of Japan and marks the beginning of the first period of feudal rule known as the Kamakura Period.






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






50. 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.