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1347 BCE
Peasant's revolt
The Peasants' Revolt, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. -
1215 BCE
John Signs Magna Carta
Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "(the) Great Charter"), is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. -
800 BCE
Frankish Empire
800 - Charlemagne, King of the Franks, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Charlemagne united much of Western Europe and is considered the father of both the French and the German Monarchies. -
Period: 600 BCE to 799 BCE
Christianity spreads throughout Europe
christianity spreads out in Europe in 600 - 799 ace -
476 BCE
Fall of the Roman Empire
The fall of the western empire, reduced to little more than Italy itself by now, came about as in AD 476 a senior military officer called Odoacer led the largely German troops of the western Roman army in a revolt against the emperor. -
1347
The Black Death
Between 1347 and 1353 the Black DeathOffsite Link, one of the deadliest pandemicsOffsite Link in human history, killed thirty to sixty percent of Europe's population. For centuries the epidemic continued to strike every 10 years or so, its last major outbreak being the Great Plague of London from 1665 to 1666. Though the vectors were not understood at the time, the disease was spread by rats and transmitted to people by fleas or, in some cases, directly by breathing.
