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

High Middle Ages timeline (1001-1300)

1025: Basil II died

1040: Moveable Type created

1049-54: Pope Leo IX

1066: Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest

1071: Battle of Manzikert

1073-85: Gregorian Reformation

1075-1122: Investiture Controversy

1095: Urban II declares the First Crusade

1096-99: The First Crusade

12th century: Revolution in thought, Rise of Universities, and Monks deemphasize learning

1120: Knights Templar form

1152-90: Frederick Barbarossa

1154-97: Hohenstaafen family vs. Italy

1170: Thomas Becket murdered

1176: Myriocephalam

1187: Battle of Hattin

1187: Saladin takes Jerusalem

1190-92: Third Crusade

1204: Capetian ascendancy

1204: Crusaders sack Constantinople

1206-1337: Mongol Invasions

1214: Battle of the Bouvines

1215: Fourth Lateran Council

1215: Jews marginalized by Fourth Lateran Council

1215: Magna Carta

1229: Inquisition established

1250: Frederick II dies

1260: Battle of Ain Jolut

1261: Greeks retake Byzantine Empire

1265: First English Parliament

1274: Samma Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)

Dark Ages: Timeline

476: Rome falls to Odavacer

483-511: Clovis unites Franks

493: Odavacer overthrown by Ostrogoths

527-65: Reign of Justinian I

  -529-34: Justinian compiles Corpus Juris Civilis

535-54: Gothic War

541-42: Plague of Justinian

547: St. Benedict dies

568: Lombards invade Italy

590-604: Gregory the Great is Pope

610: Muhammad's vision

  -610-32: Muhammad spreads Islam

  -622: Flight from Mecca

  -630: The Return

610: Heraclitus I assumes power

627: Battle of Ninevah breaks Sassanid power

632-732: Muslim Conquest

  -717: Assault on Constantinople

  -732: Battle of Tours

730-87: Iconoclast Controversy

782: Verdict of Verdun

793: Viking raid on Lindesfarne

800: Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor

814: Charlemagne dies

867-1056: Macedonian Renaissance

919: Gunpowder used at The Battle of Long-Shan Jiang

1000: Vikings discover North America

Roman Empire timeline (337-476 A.D.)

360-363: Julian the Apostate

350: Huns invade east/push Goths west

376: Huns arrive/Goths pushed into Empire

377-82: Gothic War

378: Battle of Adrianople

382: Goths settled, but not tamed

395-7: Alaric's Revolt

405: Huns push barbarians west again

410: Rome sacked

429: Vandals invade Africa

439: Vandals take Carthage

441-53: Attila the Hun

442: Constantinople pays off Attila

452: Attila in Italy

453: Attila dies

453: Aetius dies setting off final crisis

453-69: Hunnic Empire collapses/Barbarians splinter

455: Rome sacked

455: Barbarian proclaimed emperor

461: Majoran's fleet destroyed in Spain ending invasion of North Africa

468: Eastern invasion fleet defeated-bankruptcy-ends of any chance of restoring Roman Empire in west

474: Constantinople negotiates treaty with the Vandals

476: Western Emperor deposed

476: Odacer becomes king of Italy

History Shorts: Constantinople sacked (1204)

In 1203, Western Europeans traveled to the Middle East to try and capture Jerusalem. They stopped at Constantinople along the way and decided to lay siege. Eastern and Western Christianity were at odds over doctrine and cultural differences. The Byzantines massacred Catholics a couple decades earlier adding incentive to the Crusader strike. They captured and sacked the city for plunder and revenge. The incident severely weakened the Byzantine Empire allowing the Muslims to gain a firmer foothold in the region. It is considered one the nails in the Byzantine coffin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBx8BDJdzf

History Shorts: Mazikert (1071)

The Battle of Manzikert spelled the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire. The Seljuq Turks decisively defeated the Byzantines and captured the Emperor Romanos IV. It began Turkish consolidation of Anatolia and undermined the Byzantines in key army recruiting grounds. The battle opened the door for a Turkish invasion and the led to economic and civil disruptions within Constantinople. In 1453, the Ottoman Turks completed the conquest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnvFHjj7kQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO68tplwtFo

History Shorts: The great church schism (1054)

The East-West schism in 1054 split the Catholic Church into Greek and Latin branches. The church broke along cultural, linguistic, geographical, political, and theological lines. The two sides did not understand one another and vied for control. The split reflected the schism that occurred five centuries earlier when Rome fell and Constantinople remained a major power. The major issues included whether leavened or unleavened bread was appropriate for the Eucharist, papal authority, and Constantinople's rights within the church. The breach remains to this day, led to each side excommunicating one another, the massacre of Latins in 1182, the Crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204, and nearly 1,000 years of mutual distrust. In the 20th century, Pope Paul IV and Pope John Paul II worked with their counterparts to heal the rifts caused in 1054.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQj0HpMdw74

History shorts: The Nika Riots (532 A.D.)

Constantinople tired of Emperor Justinian’s tax policies. At the chariot races, fans of various teams grew unruly and rioted. Some politicians decided to use the mob rioting as a pretext to overthrow the emperor. Justinian freaked and fled to the docks. As he prepared to go into exile, his wife Theodora convinced him to face the mob. Justinian grew a backbone and viciously put down the revolt. 30,000 died in the rioting and Justinian’s vengeance. Afterward, Justinian rebuilt the city and constructed the Hagia Sophia. He also created the Justinian Code and reunited the Eastern and Western Roman Empires for a time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ONRc_wuvl0