Dark Ages and Middle Ages By mashe445 400 Angles and Saxons invade Britain 481 Clovis becomes king of the Franks 527 Reign of Justinian starts Apr 5, 610 Muhammad's Visions Apr 5, 650 Rightly guided Caliphs conquer Middle East Apr 5, 661 Start of Umayyad Dynasty Apr 5, 716 Umayyad Dynasty reaches Spain Apr 5, 732 Battle of Tours Apr 5, 750 Start of Abbasid Dynasty Apr 5, 768 Start of the reign of Charlemagne Apr 5, 800 Viking Invasions start Apr 5, 843 Treaty of Verdun Apr 5, 880 Rurik the Rus conquers Kiev Apr 5, 886 Kind Alfred creates "Angleland" Apr 5, 962 Otto I crowmed Holy Roman Emperor Apr 5, 987 Hugh Capet seizes the French throne Apr 5, 1059 Church reform leads to cardinals electing the Pope Apr 5, 1066 Battle of Hastings Apr 5, 1095 Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade Apr 5, 1147 Second Crusade Apr 7, 1150 Universities form in Europe Apr 5, 1180 Start of the reign of Phillip Agustus Apr 5, 1187 Third Crusade Apr 5, 1204 Fourth Crusade Apr 5, 1215 Magna Carta signed by King John Apr 5, 1232 Inquisition set up in Western Europe Apr 5, 1240 Mongols invade Russia Apr 5, 1295 Model Parliament called into session Apr 7, 1305 Start of the Babylonian Captivity Apr 5, 1325 Center of Eastern Orthodoxy tranferred to Moscow Apr 7, 1337 Start of the Hundred years war Apr 7, 1377 The Great Schism Apr 7, 1386 Queen Jadwiga marries Wladyslaw Jagiello Apr 7, 1429 Joan of Arc fights the Battle of Orleans Apr 5, 1453 Ottoman Turks conquer Constantinople Apr 7, 1455 War of Roses Apr 7, 1492 Spanish armies conquer Granada Apr 7, 1493 Maximillian I marries Mary of Burgundy Apr 7, 1526 King Louis II of Hungary defeated by the Ottomans
