Piper Middle Age Timeline

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  • 500

    Teotihuancan reaches population peak in central Mexico.

  • 511

    Clovis unites Franks under Christian rule.

  • 527

    Justinian becomes ruler of Byzantine Empire.

  • Oct 4, 630

    Muhammad returns to Mecca after making the Hijrah to Medina.

  • Oct 5, 732

    Charles Martel stops Muslim invasion.

  • Oct 7, 732

    Charles Martel defeats the Muslims at Tours.

  • Oct 5, 1000

    Muslim scholars, who preserved Greek medical works, share them with Europeans.

  • Oct 18, 1000

    Hausa city-states begin to emerge.

  • Oct 7, 1066

    Norman invasion of England

  • Oct 7, 1095

    First Crusade begins.

  • Oct 5, 1100

    Muslim literature flourishes

  • Oct 18, 1100

    Mississippian culture thrives at Cahokia.

  • Oct 19, 1100

    Yoruba kingdom of Ife is established.

  • Oct 7, 1190

    Holy Roman Empire weakens.

  • Oct 7, 1192

    Kamakura Shogunate rules Japan.

  • Oct 7, 1215

    King John approves Magna Carta.

  • Oct 18, 1235

    Sundiata founds Mali Empire.

  • Oct 6, 1240

    Mongols destroy Kiev.

  • Oct 9, 1279

    Kublai Khan conquers China.

  • Nov 10, 1300

    In the 1300s the Renaissance begins in Italian city-states such as Florence, Milan, and Mantua.

  • Dec 11, 1300

    Osman founds Ottoman state.

  • Oct 18, 1324

    Mali king Mansa Musa goes on hajj to Mecca.

  • Oct 18, 1325

    Aztecs build Tenochtitlan.

  • Oct 7, 1347

    Bubonic plague strikes Europe.

  • Dec 11, 1398

    Timur the Lame destroys Delhi.

  • Dec 11, 1405

    Zeng He takes first voyage.

  • Dec 11, 1419

    Prince Henry founds navigation school.

  • Oct 7, 1429

    Joan of Arc leads the French to victory over the English at Orleans.

  • Nov 10, 1434

    Medici family takes control of Florence.

  • Oct 18, 1438

    Pachacuti becomes Incan emperor.

  • Oct 6, 1453

    Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks

  • Oct 7, 1453

    Hundred Years' War ends with the French victory.

  • Dec 11, 1453

    Ottomans capture Constantinople.

  • Nov 10, 1455

    Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz.

  • Oct 18, 1464

    Sunni Ali begins Songhai Empire.

  • Dec 11, 1492

    Columbus makes first voyage.

  • Dec 11, 1494

    Spain and Portugal sign Treaty of Tordesillas.

  • Dec 11, 1501

    Safavids conquer Persia.

  • Oct 18, 1502

    Montezuma II crowned Aztec emperor.

  • Nov 10, 1517

    Martin Luther begins the Reformation in Wittenberg.

  • Dec 11, 1521

    Cortes conquers Aztec Empire.

  • Dec 11, 1526

    Babur founds Mughal Empire.

  • Dec 11, 1533

    Pizarro conquers Inca Empire.

  • Nov 10, 1534

    English king Henry Vll starts the chruch of England.

  • Nov 10, 1563

    Council of Trent mandates reforms in the Catholic Church.

  • Shah Abbas I rules Safavid Empire.

  • British defeat Philip II's Spanish Armada.

  • Tokugawa shoguns rule Japan.

  • English found Jamestown.

  • Champlain claims Quebec for France.

  • Dutch open trade with Java.

  • Shah Jahan orders construction of Taj Mahal at Agra.

  • Louis XIV begins to rule France.

  • Manchus establish Qing Dynasty in China.

  • Puritans under Oliver Cromwell execute English King.

  • Peter the Great becomes sole czar of Russia.

  • French and Indian War begins.

  • Prussian king Fredrick the Great begins Seven Years' War against Austria.

  • Britain seeks to trade with China.

  • Al-Khwarizmi writes the first algebra textbook.

  • Byzantine culture spreads to Russia.

  • Koryu Dyansty controls Korea.

  • Heian period begins in Japan.

  • Song Dynasty established in China.

  • Treaty of Verdun divides Charlemagne's empire.

  • Otto the Great becomes emperor.

  • Capetian dynasty begins in France.

  • Pope Leo III crowns Frankish king Charlemagne emperor.

  • Anasazi culture develops in the Southwest.

  • Classic period of the Maya civilation ends.

  • Outside invasions spur growth of feudalism.

  • Empire of Ghana thrives on trade.

  • Tang dynasty begins 289-year rule in China.