Dark Ages and Middle Ages Timeline By ReinaM Period: 400 to 500 Angles and Saxons invde Britain 481 Clovis becomes king of the Franks Period: 527 to 565 Reign of Justinian Apr 5, 610 Mohammad's visions Apr 5, 650 Rightly Guided Caliphs conquer Middle East Period: Apr 5, 661 to Apr 5, 750 Umayyad Dynasty 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, 900 Viking Invasions Apr 5, 843 Treaty of Verdum Apr 5, 880 Rurik the Rus conquers Kiev Apr 5, 886 King Alfred creates "Angleland" Apr 7, 886 King Alfred creates “Angleland” Apr 7, 962 Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor Apr 7, 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 7, 1066 Battle of Hastings Apr 7, 1095 Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade Apr 7, 1147 Second Crusade Apr 7, 1150 Universities built in Europe Period: Apr 7, 1180 to Apr 7, 1223 Reign of Philip Augustus Apr 7, 1189 Third Crusade Apr 7, 1204 Fourth Crusade Apr 7, 1215 Magna Carta signed by King John Apr 5, 1232 Inquisition set up in Western Europe Apr 5, 1240 Mongols invade Russia Apr 7, 1295 Model Parliament called into session Apr 7, 1305 Babylonian Captivity Apr 5, 1325 Center of Eastern Orthodoxy transferred to Moscow Period: Apr 7, 1337 to Apr 7, 1453 The Hundred Year’s War Period: Apr 7, 1377 to Apr 7, 1414 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 Wars of the Roses Apr 7, 1492 Spanish armies conquer Granada Apr 7, 1493 Maximilian I marries Mary of Burgundy Apr 7, 1526 King Louis II of Hungary defeated by the Ottomans