Middle/Dark Ages Timeline Project

  • IBN ZUHUR
    1090 BCE

    IBN ZUHUR

    Was one medieval Islam's foremost thinkers who became the greatest medical clinician of the western caliphate.
  • VANDALS SACK ROME
    455

    VANDALS SACK ROME

    the third of four ancient sacks of Rome that was conducted by the Vandals who were at war
  • BENEDICT OF NURSIA
    547

    BENEDICT OF NURSIA

    religious reformer known as the “father of Western monasticism,” . He is the patron saint of Europe
  • VIKINGS ATTACK LINIDISFARNE
    687

    VIKINGS ATTACK LINIDISFARNE

    attacked the sacred heart of the Northumbrian kingdom which'the place where the Christian religion began in our nation. First landing area for the lindisfarne.
  • Battle of Tours
    Oct 11, 732

    Battle of Tours

    also called the Battle of Poitiers and, by Arab sources, the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul. The Decisive Frankish victory decided to withdrawal of the Umayyad army
  • Saint Bede
    May 26, 735

    Saint Bede

    The Venerable Bede was an English Benedictine monk its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles.
  • CLOVIS  MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY STARTS
    750

    CLOVIS MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY STARTS

    traditionally reckoned as the “first race” of the kings of France.
  • Massacre of Verden
    782

    Massacre of Verden

    an event during the Saxon Wars where the Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons
  • CHARLEMAGNE DIES
    Jan 28, 814

    CHARLEMAGNE DIES

    his empire encompassed much of Western Europe.
  • AL-KHWARIZMI
    820

    AL-KHWARIZMI

    Known for his mathematical ways wrote on Hindu-Arabic numerals. The word algorithm derives from his name
  • Missi Dominici
    843

    Missi Dominici

    powerful men protected with a price paid to a slain equal to that of a member of sovereign's family.
  • King Alfred Of England
    Oct 29, 899

    King Alfred Of England

    He made good laws and also believed that education was important. which he had books translated from Latin into English just so people could read them. To help protect his kingdom from Viking attacks, Alfred built forts and walled towns known as 'burhs'.
  • Muhammed Al-Razi
    Oct 15, 925

    Muhammed Al-Razi

    he the “original portrayer” of smallpox he was the first to describe smallpox and to differentiate it from measles.
  • Battle of Hasting
    Oct 14, 1066

    Battle of Hasting

    A fight between the Norman-French army of William the Duke of Normandy. This battle was important because it changed who was in charge in England.
  • Domesday Book
    1085

    Domesday Book

    the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states it got it's name as a metaphor for the day of judgement, because its decisions like those of the last judgement, were unalterable.
  • Sundiata Keita
    Aug 20, 1190

    Sundiata Keita

    first ruler of the Mali Empire of a wealthy African empire and proclaimed the first charter of human rights.
  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta Libertatum, commonly called Magna Carta, is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor .Its a document guaranteeing English political liberties that was drafted.
  • Genghis Khan
    Aug 18, 1227

    Genghis Khan

    unifying the Mongolian steppe under massive empire that was able to challenge the powerful. he became power to his community
  • Marco Polo
    Sep 15, 1254

    Marco Polo

    explorer, and writer who traveled through Asia and the Silk Road between.
  • Guy De Chauliac
    1300

    Guy De Chauliac

    He was the most the most eminent surgeon of the European Middle Ages..
  • MANSA MUSA JOURNEY FOR THE HAJJ
    1324

    MANSA MUSA JOURNEY FOR THE HAJJ

    inspired him to commission two enormous mosques in Timbuktu and Gao. He encourage others to do the same thing he did
  • Geoffery Chaucer
    1343

    Geoffery Chaucer

    was an English poet and author called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry".
  • JANI BEG SIEGE OF KAFFA/CAFFA
    1343

    JANI BEG SIEGE OF KAFFA/CAFFA

    massive Crimean Tatar force that attacked the Crimean port city of Kaffa.
  • Christine De Pisan
    Sep 11, 1364

    Christine De Pisan

    She was a medieval writer and historiographer who wrote for women's equality.
  • Joan of Arc
    May 30, 1431

    Joan of Arc

    a national heroine of France. who was a peasant girl and was believing that she was acting under divine guidance.