Germany Timeline

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  • 500

    Tribes of Germany Bronze age

  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Germany Timeline

  • 768

    Charlemagne is crowned king of the Roman empire

  • 772

    Charlemagne king of the Franks (from France) attacks the Germans

  • 782

    Massacre of Verden- 4,500 saxons killed

  • 814

    Charlemagne dies. After his death his empire breaks up and part of it becomes Germany.

  • 933

    Henry Duke of Saxony defeats the Magyars

  • 936

    Otto the Great becomes king of Germany

  • 955

    Otto crushes the Magyars

  • 962

    Otto II becomes king

  • 983

    Otto III becomes king

  • 1002

    Henry the II becomes king

  • 1024

    Conrad II

  • 1028

    Henry III

  • 1054

    Henry IV

  • 1077

    Rudolf of Rheinfelden

  • 1081

    Hermann of Salam

  • 1087

    Conrad

  • 1096

    First Crusade

    The People's Crusade - Freeing the Holy Lands. 1st Crusaders led by Count Raymond IV of Toulouse and proclaimed by many wandering preachers, notably Peter the Hermit
  • 1099

    Henry V

  • 1144

    Second Crusade

    Crusaders prepared to attack Damascus. 2nd crusade led by Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III and by King Louis VII of France
  • 1157

    The Germanic Empire is called the Holy Roman Empire for the first time

  • 1187

    Third Crusade

    3rd Crusaders led by Richard the Lionheart of England, Philip II of France, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I. Richard I made a truce with Saladin
  • 1202

    Fourth Crusade

    4th Crusaders led by Fulk of Neuil French/Flemish advanced on Constantinople
  • 1215

    Declaration of Magna Carta

    The Magna Carta is a document limiting the control of the king
  • 1217

    Fifth Crusade

    The 5th Crusade led by King Andrew II of Hungary, Duke Leopold VI of Austria, John of Brienne
  • 1220

    Frederick II becomes emperor

  • 1228

    Sixth Crusade

    The 6th Crusaders led by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
  • 1248

    Seventh Crusade

    The 7th Crusade led by Louis IX of France
  • 1254

    The Great Interregnum (a period without an emperor)

  • 1270

    Eighth Crusade

    The 8th Crusade led by Louis IX
  • 1271

    Ninth Crusade

    The 9th Crusade led by Prince Edward (later Edward I of England)
  • 1349

    Black Death Plague

  • 1356

    Karl IV issues the golden bull, a document of rules for electing emperors

  • 1409

    Leipzig University is founded