euro history activity

  • 476

    Collapse of the roman empire

    The western half fell to barbarians causing the romans to split and having the rest of Rome being much weaker and less important causing the later fall of Constantinople
  • 800

    Charlemagne is crowned emperor of Western Europe

    The Pope crowns emperor of "the holy roman empire" (western europe)
  • 1042

    Edward the confessor becomes king of England

    the last Anglo-Saxon king is crowned
  • 1066

    Battle of hastings

    The battle where the Normans triumph over the Anglo-Saxon forces killing king edward the conffessor
  • 1086

    The domesday book is compiled

    The book detailed what the king was owed and was used to assert crown power
  • 1096

    The first crusade

    The crusades started to make sure everyone remained Christian and severely punished any sinners
  • 1099

    The crusaders capture the holy city Jerusalem

    The crusaders enter Jerusalem and kill everyone changing the main belief from Muslim and Jewish to catholic
  • 1215

    The magna carta is signed by the king john of England

    It gave the average citizen more power and the king more like a governing body rather than a dictator
  • 1315

    The great famine of europe

    Crops failed across the continent causing anyone without a stockpile of food to stare to death
  • 1337

    Start of the hundred year war

    The hundred year war was when England and France started a war over who would control most of Europe England ended up winning it going broke in the process
  • 1347

    Black death in Europe

    The black death entered europe and over the next ~4 years it killed half of the people in europe while having a death rate of 50%-60% in the first few days of infection
  • 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg invents the first printing press

    When Johannes invented he printing press it brought on a new age of information because it meant instead of having to copy down everything one by one they could mass produce things like the bible or news without having to have hundreds of workers and a very high cost