Dark and Middle Ages Timeline

  • Period: 400 to 499

    Angles and Saxons invade Britain

  • 481

    Clovis becomes king of the Franks

  • Period: 527 to 565

    Reign of Justinian

    Reign of Justinian
  • Apr 7, 610

    Mohammad's Visions

  • Apr 7, 650

    Rightly Guided Caliphs conquer Middle East

  • Period: Apr 7, 661 to Apr 7, 750

    Umayyad Dynasty

  • Apr 7, 716

    Umayyad Dynasty reaches Spain

  • Apr 7, 732

    Battle of Tours

  • Period: Apr 7, 750 to Apr 7, 1258

    Abbasid Dynasty

  • Period: Apr 7, 768 to Apr 7, 814

    Reign of Charlemagne

  • Period: Apr 7, 800 to Apr 7, 899

    Viking Invasions

  • Apr 7, 843

    Treaty of Verdun

  • Apr 7, 880

    Rurik the Rus conquers Kiev

  • Apr 7, 886

    King Alfred creates "Angleland"

  • Apr 7, 962

    Otto 1 crowne Holy Roman Emperor

  • Apr 7, 987

    Hugh Capet seizes the French throne

  • Apr 7, 1059

    Church reform leads to Cardinals electing the Pope

  • Apr 7, 1066

    Battle of Hastings

  • Apr 7, 1095

    Pope Urban 2 call for the first Crusade

  • Apr 7, 1145

    Second Crusade

  • Apr 7, 1150

    Universities form 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 7, 1232

    Inquistion set up in Western Europe

  • Apr 7, 1240

    Mongols invade Russia

  • Apr 7, 1295

    Model Parliament called into session

  • Apr 7, 1305

    Babylonian Captivity

  • Apr 7, 1325

    Center of Eastern Orthodoxy transferredto Moscow

  • Period: Apr 7, 1339 to Apr 7, 1453

    The Hundred Year's War

  • Apr 7, 1377

    The Great Schism

  • Apr 7, 1386

    Queen Jadwiga marries Wladyslaw Jagiello

  • Apr 7, 1429

    Joan of Arc fights battle of Orleans

  • Apr 7, 1453

    Ottoman Turks conquer Constantinople

  • Apr 7, 1455

    Wars of the Roses

  • Apr 7, 1492

    Spanish armies conquer Granada

  • Apr 7, 1493

    Maximillian 1 marries Mary of Burgundy

  • Apr 7, 1526

    King Louis 2 of Hungary defeated by the Ottomans