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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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






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






3. 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.






4. The University of Cambridge is founded.






5. Second Muslim attack on Constantinople - ending in failure. The combined Byzantine






6. Ends of the Three Kingdoms period in Korea.






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






8. Beginning of Abbasid Caliphate.Would become the longest lasting caliphate - until 1519 when conquered and annexed into the Ottoman Empire.






9. June 15The Magna Carta is sealed by John of England.This marks one of the first times a medieval ruler is forced to accept limits on his power.






10. Genghis Khan dies.His kingdom is divided among his children and grandchildrenEmpire of the Great Khan - Chagatai Khanate - Mongolian Homeland - and the Blue Horde and White Horde. (Which would later become the Golden Horde.






11. Sicilian Vespers. Sicilians massacres Angevins over a six-week period - after a Frenchman harassed a woman.Would mark a two decade period of war - and peace treaties between mainly between Aragon - Sicily - and the Angevin.






12. Simeon I becomes ruler of theFirst Bulgarian Empire in the Balkans.






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






14. PopeInnocent III calls for the Albigensian Crusade which seeks to destroy a rival form of Christianity practiced by the Cathars.






15. 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.






16. Genghis Khan was elected as Khagan of the Mongols and the Mongol Empire was established.The Mongols would conquer much of Eurasia - changing former political borders.






17. Slav occupation of Balkans complete.






18. 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.






19. Kenneth McAlpin becomes king of the Picts and Scots - creating the Kingdom of Alba.






20. Battle of Dun Nechtain. Picts defeat Northumbrians - whose dominance ends.






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. In the Battle of Naklo - Boleslaus III Wrymouth defeats the Pomeranians.Polish access to the sea is re-established.






26. Benedict of Nursia founds monastery at Monte Cassino.The first of twelve monasteries founded by Saint Benedict - beginning the Order of Saint Benedict.






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






28. Windmills are first recorded.






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. Justinian I publishes the Code of Civil Law.This compiled centuries of legal writings and imperial pronouncements into three parts of one body of law.






33. 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.






34. The Synod of Kells-Mellifont established the present diocesan system of Ireland (with later modifications) and recognized the primacy of Armagh.This synod marks the inclusion of the Irish Church into western European Catholicism.






35. 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.






36. Death of Alfred the Great.






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






38. Harold Fairhair becomes King of Norway.






39. 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.






40. Battle of Heavenfield.Northumbrian army under Oswald defeat Welsh army.






41. Jerusalem captured by Muslims.






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






43. 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.






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






45. Battle of Tertry






46. 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.






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






48. June 15The Magna Carta is sealed by John of England.This marks one of the first times a medieval ruler is forced to accept limits on his power.






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






50. Muslims take Carthage.