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Timeline Of The Middle Ages

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. Iceland is settled by Norsemen.






5. 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%






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






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






8. Thomas Aquinas' work - Summa Theologica is published - after his death.Is the main staple of theology during the Middle Ages.






9. Muslims invade Sicily.First encounter of attempts to counquer Byzantine Sicily - until the last Byzantine outpost was conquered in 965.






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. The Western Schism during which three claimant popes were elected simultaneously.The Avignon Papacy ends.






14. Honen Shonin (Genku) founds the Jodo shu (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.This event marks the beginning of the Buddhist sectarian movement in Japan.






15. 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.






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






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






18. Harold Fairhair becomes King of Norway.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. Battle of Kosovo in Serbia.This was in many respects the decisive battle between the Turks - led by Sultan Murat - and Christian army - led by the Serbs and their duke Lazar. The battle took place in Kosovo - the southern province of the Medieval Ser






23. 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






24. Joseon Dynasty founded in Korea.Becomes longest reigning Korean dynasty.






25. Muslims invade Sicily.First encounter of attempts to counquer Byzantine Sicily - until the last Byzantine outpost was conquered in 965.






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. Battle of AnkaraBayezid I is captured by Tamerlane's forces - causing the interregnum of the Ottoman Empire.






30. June 16Battle of Stoke.Marks end of the War of the Roses.






31. 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.






32. The Second Crusade was in retaliation for the fall of Edessa - one of the first Crusader States founded in theFirst Crusade. It was an overall failure.This was the first Crusade to have been led by European Queens.






33. Wang Geon unified Later Three Kingdoms of Korea.






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. Tang Dynasty ends with Emperor Ai deposed.The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in China commences.






39. Dante publishes his Divine Comedy.Is one of the most defining works of literature during the Late Middle Ages - and among the most recognizable in all of literature.






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. North South States Period begins in Korea.






46. 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.






47. Kingdom of Portugal conquers Ceuta.Beginning of the Portuguese Empire.






48. Grand Canal of China constructed.






49. 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.






50. Reconquista ends.Marks end of Moorish/Muslim rule within Iberian Peninsula; Unification of Spain and Portugal - respectively.