Sunday, October 26, 2014

Late Middle Ages timeline

1315-17: The Great Famine

1321: The Divine Comedy written

1337: The Hundred Years' War begins

1347-51: The Black Death

1353: The Decameron written

1381: Peasant's Revolt (England)

1386: The Battle of Kosovo

1400: The Canterbury Tales written

1415-92: Height of Medici power in Florence

1415: Agincourt

1417: The Great Schism ends

1429: Joan of Arc takes Orleans

1431: Joan of Arc executed

1453: The Hundred Years' War ends

1453: The Printing Press

1453: Constantinople falls to the Ottomans

1485: The Battle of Bosworth

1492: Reconquista completed

1492: Columbus discovers America

1494: The Treaty of Tordesillas

1497: De Gama reaches India

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