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

History Shorts: Marco Polo (1295)

Marco Polo travelled to Asia as a merchant and explorer. He met Kublai Khan and returned to Venice. Polo's accounts of his travels seemed like science fiction to many. He was the first to record the journey to the east. His efforts later inspired Columbus and other explorers.

PBS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmAuJ4Y7Aa0

and from more recent times...

Bow Wow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUacmNauJW0

Star Trek Timeline: 11th-19th centuries

1000: Vikings land in North America

1095: First Crusade

11^th century: Life on Zetar wiped out by war

12^th century: Sphere Builders build their spheres

12^th century: Kulkulkan visits Aztecs

1154: Andorians become warp capable

13^th century: Conquests of Genghis Khan

14^th century: Ventaxian civilization makes deal with the devil

14^th century: The Kataan’s sun goes supernova. They create a probe to ensure the preservation of their culture.

14^th century: Qo’nos is attacked by the Hur’q. The Sword of Kahless and other artifacts are plundered.

14^th century: Stratos is built

1334-1350: Black Death sweeps Earth

1401: Beginning of Renaissance

1492: Columbus discovers America

1519: Captain Erika Hernandez and three officers from the USS Columbia arrive in the Caelar city. Hernandez later undergoes a procedure and lives into the 24^th century. The other three die in the 16^th century.

16^th century: Bajorans build solar space ships

16^th century: Beginning of Klingon dark ages

1588: Spanish Armada

1666: Newton devises his laws

1680: Pueblo Uprising (Jean Luc Picard’s ancestor takes part)

1691: Salem Witch Trials force the Megas-Tu to leave Salem.

18^th century: Denevan neural parasites wipe out Beta Portolan

1767: Eminiar and Vendikar begin a war completely fought by computer with casualties calculated leading to mass murder. The war ends in the 23^rd century.

1776: Declaration of Independence

1789: French Revolution begins

1799: Napoleon seizes power in France

19^th century: Cardassian Union and Detapa Council formed

1805: A Picard fights at Trafalgar

1815: Waterloo ends Napoleon’s reign

1821: Onaya kills writer John Keats

1836: Battle of the Alamo

1850: Suliban world becomes uninhabitable leading to a mass exodus

1850s: Vulcans finally rebuild their world after the great wars and Awakening. They return to interstellar travel

1860s: Humans are abducted and forced into slavery by the Skagarans.

1864: Quinn saves Thaddius Riker’s life at the Battle of Pine Mountain.

1881: Gunfight at the OK Corral

1888-91: Redjac strikes London killing 17 women

1893: Shapeshifters from Devidia II use a cholera outbreak to kill humans and consume their neural energy. They are stopped by Enterprise-E, Guinan, and Mark Twain.