Dark Ages and Middle Ages By GraceReavis689 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 King Louis II of Hungary defeated by the Ottomans
