Alexia Wright : Unit Two

  • Uniting the Franks
    400

    Uniting the Franks

    While in a losing battle cloves turned to christian god for help - the battle shift ice land the franks won .
  • Loss of Language
    500

    Loss of Language

    Loss of language and common understanding impacts learning. Most important work of literature , science and phlosopy were in Greek . As people lost their understanding of Greek they also lost their important works.
  • Period: 500 to Oct 26, 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Pope Gregory
    540

    Pope Gregory

    Poep head of catholic church. Secular power he brought his church into politices
  • Peppin the short
    Nov 4, 714

    Peppin the short

    Pepin, called the short by his father at his twelve year presentation to the nobles, was the first king of the Franks of the Carollingian dynasty.
  • Period: Nov 3, 751 to

    Carolingian Dynasty

  • Battle of Hastings
    Oct 14, 1066

    Battle of Hastings

    his is the story of the Battle of Hastings that was fought on the 14th October 1066. An event so significant, it completely changed the course of English history. To speak of this battle without recourse to the events that came before, would be an injustice to the people of this island who have fought and died for her. What makes this event so important to the English is the immutable fact that it was the last time any foreign power was to conquer her. Without doubt, a lesson that became indeli
  • Crusades
    Sep 14, 1088

    Crusades

    Pope Urban the 2nd was responsible for assisting Emperor Alexus I (1081-1118) of Constantinople in launching the first crusade.
  • Crusades
    Sep 21, 1095

    Crusades

    There were seven major Crusades. The era the Crusades the first began in 1095 with Pope Urban II's famous speech and the ended in 1291 when Acre, the last of the Latin holdings in Palestine, was lost. The major Crusades were:
  • Period: Mar 13, 1096 to Aug 22, 1270

    Crusades

    CrusadesThere were 7 major Crusades total.
  • Banning of Lay Investiture
    Oct 26, 1176

    Banning of Lay Investiture

    The Investiture Controversy, also known as the lay investiture controversy, was the most important conflict between secular and religious powers in medieval Europe. It began as a dispute in the 11th century between the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII
  • Battle of egnano
    Oct 26, 1176

    Battle of egnano

    Battle between Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard cities allied with Milan. Frederick had called for German aid in his struggle in Italy, and the army that had responded had reached Como
  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    On June 15, 1215, in a field at Runnymede, King John affixed his seal to Magna Carta. Confronted by 40 rebellious barons, he consented to their demands in order to avert civil war. Just 10 weeks later, Pope Innocent III nullified the agreement, and England plunged into internal war.
  • Parliament is formed in England
    Mar 18, 1295

    Parliament is formed in England

    The Model Parliament of 1295 was England’s first legally elected legislature. Each county elected two knights, and each borough two burgesses, and each city two citizens.
  • Period: Nov 19, 1337 to Nov 19, 1453

    Hundred Year War

    Hundred Year Warfought between England and France
  • Period: Aug 18, 1340 to Apr 21, 1400

    Bubonic Plague / Black Death

    Black DeathIn the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China.
  • Joan of Arc
    Jan 6, 1412

    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc was born into the French peasant class to devoutly religious parents in the village of Domremy. Beginning around age 12, she heard voices: those of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret.
  • Vernacular
    Aug 20, 1413

    Vernacular

    In response to this wider use of the vernacular, a debate over its suitability as a means of communicating scripture and theology began in the 1300s.
  • Great Schism
    Aug 2, 1414

    Great Schism

    The schism in western Christendom was finally healed at the Council of Constance.
  • Crowning of charlemagne by the pope

    Crowning of charlemagne by the pope

    Before Charlemagne was crowned Emperor, there was a considerable amount of tension between the pope and Constantinople.Charlemagne was a successful warlord. He accomplished some military endeavor in nearly every year of his reign, which led to the expansion of his (Frankish) kingdom
  • Charles the Hammer

    Charles the Hammer

    Charles Martel also known as Charles the Hammer , was a frankish military and political leader, who served as mayor of the palace, many years.
  • Downfall of Charlemagne empire

    Downfall of Charlemagne empire

    Louis left his empire to all three of his sons who eventually just split the land.
    later on in their lives they realized they couldn't handle it and the empire slowly fell apart.
  • Charlemagne's empire

    Charlemagne's empire

    Limited the authority of the nobles sent out royal agents to make sure nobles were governing their countless justly. charlemagne regularly visted every part of his kindgom encourged learning.
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    Reign of Charlemagne