Annie Middle Ages Timeline

  • 500

    Teotihuacan in cental mexico

  • 511

    Clovis unites Franks under Christian rule

  • 527

    Justinian becomes ruler of Byzantine Empire

  • Oct 10, 630

    Muhammad returns to Mecca

  • Oct 10, 730

    Charles Martel defeats the Muslims

  • Oct 10, 732

    Charles Martel stops Muslim invasion

  • Oct 10, 1000

    Muslim scholars share Greek works with Europeans

  • Oct 21, 1000

    Hausa city-states begin to emerge

  • Oct 10, 1066

    Norman invasion in England

  • Oct 10, 1095

    1st Crusade begins

  • Oct 10, 1100

    Muslim literature flourishes

  • Oct 21, 1100

    Yoruba kingdom of lfe is established

  • Oct 21, 1100

    Mississippian culture thrives at cahokia

  • Oct 10, 1190

    Holy Roman Empire weakens

  • Oct 10, 1192

    Kamakura Shogunate rules Japan

  • Oct 10, 1215

    King JOhn aprroves Magna Carta

  • Oct 21, 1235

    Sundiata founds Mali Empire

  • Oct 10, 1240

    Mongols destroy Kiev

  • Oct 10, 1279

    Kublai Khan conquers China

  • Nov 10, 1300

    Renaissance begins

  • Nov 10, 1300

    Osman founds Ottoman state

  • Oct 21, 1324

    Mali king Mansa Musa goes to Mecca

  • Oct 21, 1325

    Aztecs build tenochititlan

  • Oct 10, 1347

    Bubonic plague strikes Europe

  • Nov 10, 1398

    Timur the Lame destroys Delhi

  • Nov 10, 1405

    Zheng He takes first voyage

  • Nov 10, 1419

    Prince Henry founds navigation school

  • Oct 10, 1429

    Joan of Ark leads French to victory over English at Orleans

  • Nov 10, 1434

    Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz

  • Oct 21, 1438

    Pachacuti becomes ican emperor

  • Oct 10, 1453

    Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks

  • Oct 10, 1453

    Hundred Years' War ends with French victory

  • Nov 10, 1453

    Ottomans capture Constantinople

  • Oct 21, 1464

    Sunni Ali begins Songhai Empire

  • Nov 10, 1494

    Spain and Portugal sign Treaty of Tordesillas

  • Nov 10, 1501

    Safavids conquer Persia

  • Oct 21, 1502

    Montezuma II crowned Aztec emperor

  • Nov 10, 1517

    Martin Luther begins Reformation in Wittenberg

  • Nov 10, 1534

    Henry VIII starts Church of England

  • Nov 10, 1563

    Council of Trent reforms in Catholic Church

  • Shah Abbas I rules Safavid empire

  • Tokugawa shoguns rule Japan

  • Dutch open trade with Java

  • Shah Jahan orders constuction of Taj Mahal at Agra

  • Manchus establish Qing Dynasty in China

  • Britain seeks to trade with Chinia

  • Al-Khwarizmi writes 1st algebra textbook

  • Byzantine culture spreads to Russia

  • Tang dynasty begins 289-year rule in China

  • Heian period begins in Japan

  • Koryu Dynasty controls Korea

  • Song Dynasty established in China

  • Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor

  • Treaty of Verdun divides Charlemagnes empire

  • Spur of Feudalism

  • Otto the Great becomes emperor

  • Capetian dynasty begins in France

  • Empire of Ghanda thrives on trade

  • Anasazi culture develpos in Southwest

  • Classic period od maya civilazation ends