Timeline: Dark Ages and Middle Ages

Period: 400 to 499

Angles and Saxons invade Britain

481

Clovis becomes King of the Franks

Period: 527 to 565

Reign of Justinian

Apr 5, 650

Rightly Guided Caliphs conquer Middle East

Period: Apr 5, 661 to Apr 5, 750

Umayyad Dynasty

Apr 5, 672

Mohammad's Visions

Apr 5, 716

Umayyad Dynasty reaches Spain

Apr 5, 732

Battle of Tours

Period: Apr 5, 750 to Apr 5, 1258

Abbasid Dynasty

Period: Apr 5, 768 to Apr 5, 814

Reign of Charlemagne

Period: Apr 5, 800 to Apr 5, 899

Viking Invasions

Apr 5, 843

Treaty of Verdun

Apr 5, 880

Rurik the Rus conquers Kiev

Apr 5, 886

King Alfred creates "Angleland"

Apr 5, 962

Otto the Great crowned Holy Roman Emperor

Apr 5, 987

Hugh Capet seized the French throne

Apr 5, 1059

Church reform leads to cardinals electing the Pope

Apr 5, 1066

Battle of Hastings

William the Conquerer becomes King of England.

Apr 5, 1095

Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade

Period: Apr 5, 1147 to Apr 5, 1149

Second Crusade

Apr 5, 1150

Universities form in Europe

Period: Apr 5, 1180 to Apr 5, 1223

Reign of Philip Augustus

Period: Apr 5, 1189 to Apr 5, 1192

Third Crusade

Period: Apr 5, 1202 to 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 callled into session

Period: Apr 5, 1305 to Apr 5, 1377

"Babylonian Captivity"

Apr 5, 1325

Center of Eastern Orthodoxy transferred to Moscow

Period: Apr 5, 1337 to Apr 5, 1453

The Hundred Year's War

Period: Apr 5, 1377 to Apr 5, 1414

The Great Schism

Apr 5, 1386

Queen Jadwiga marries Wladyslaw Jagiello

Apr 5, 1429

Joan of Arc fights the Battle of Orleans

Apr 5, 1453

Ottoman Turks conquer Constinople

They rename it Istanbul.

Apr 5, 1455

War of the Roses

Apr 5, 1492

Spanish armies conquer Granada

Apr 5, 1493

Maximillian I marries Mary of Burgundy

Apr 5, 1526