History 4B

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1050 to Jan 1, 1300

    High Middle Ages

  • Mar 14, 1075

    Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV

    Their disagreement was about who had the right to appoint church officials. When he excommunicated Henry IV, Pope Gregory also told Henry’s vassals that they did not need to give their support to the Emperor anymore. Battles between Church and State
  • Mar 14, 1095

    Pope Urban sets off First Crusade

    In 1095 Pope Urban II proclaimed the first crusade, with the stated goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near JerusalemThe Pope's movement took its first public shape at the Council of Piacenza, where, in March 1095, Urban II received an ambassador from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos asking for help against Muslim Turks who had taken over most of formerly Byzantine Anatolia
  • Period: Mar 14, 1095 to Mar 14, 1254

    1st-7th Crusades

    Some historians see the Crusades as part of a purely defensive war against the expansion of Islam in the near east, some see them as part of long-running conflict at the frontiers of Europe and others see them as confident aggressive papal led expansion attempts by Western Christendom.
  • Mar 14, 1122

    Concordat of Worms

    an agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V on September 23, 1122 near the city of Worms. It brought to an end the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors and has been interpreted[2] as containing within itself the germ of nation-based sovereignty that would one day be confirmed in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)
  • Mar 14, 1215

    Fourth Lateran Council

    convoked by Pope Innocent III with the papal bull of April 19, 1213, and the Council gathered at Rome's Lateran Palace beginning November 11, 1215The Pope presented seventy-one decrees; the Council considered these along with the organization of the Fifth Crusade and with measures against heretics
  • Mar 14, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their rightsThe 1215 charter required King John to proclaim certain liberties and accept that his will was not arbitrary—for example by explicitly accepting that no "freeman" (in the sense of non-serf) could be punished except through the law of the land
  • Period: Mar 14, 1300 to Mar 14, 1500

    Late Middle Ages

  • Mar 14, 1309

    Beginning of Avignon Papacy

    Following the strife between Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII, and the death of his successor Benedict XI after only eight months in office, a deadlocked conclave finally elected Clement V, a Frenchman, as Pope in 1305. Clement declined to move to Rome, remaining in France, and in 1309 moved his court to the papal enclave at Avignon
  • Period: Mar 14, 1309 to Mar 14, 1378

    Avignon Papacy

    Following the strife between Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII, and the death of his successor Benedict XI after only eight months in office, a deadlocked conclave finally elected Clement V, a Frenchman, as Pope in 1305. Clement declined to move to Rome, remaining in France, and in 1309 moved his court to the papal enclave at Avignon
  • Period: Mar 14, 1315 to Mar 14, 1322

    The Great Famine

  • Mar 14, 1337

    Start of 100 Years War

    a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453, pitted the Kingdom of England against the Valois Capetians for control of the French throneIn 1337, Edward III of England refused to pay homage to Philip VI of France, leading the French King to claim confiscation of Edward's lands in Aquitaine.
  • Period: Mar 14, 1337 to Mar 14, 1453

    100 Years War

    pitted the Kingdom of England against the Valois Capetians for control of the French throne Although primarily a dynastic conflict, the war gave impetus to ideas of French and English nationalism. the costly war forced both France and Englands citizens to revolt
  • Mar 14, 1341

    Petrarch (1304-74) crowned Poet Laureate in Naples

    an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism
  • Period: Mar 14, 1341 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: Mar 14, 1378 to Mar 14, 1418

    Western Schism

    After Pope Gregory XI died, the Romans rioted to ensure the election of a Roman for pope.the cardinals elected a Neapolitan when no viable Roman candidates presented themselves. Many of the cardinals who had elected him soon regretted their decision: they elected Pope Clement VII and he reestablished a papal court in AvignonThe second election threw the Church into turmoil
  • May 30, 1381

    Peasants' Revolt

    The revolt had various causes, including the economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years War, and instability within the local leadership of LondonThe final trigger for the revolt was the intervention of a royal official, John Bampton, in Essex on 30 May 1381. His attempts to collect unpaid poll taxes in the town of Brentwood ended in a violent confrontation
  • Mar 14, 1430

    Jan Hus is Burned at the Stake

    Hus tried to reform the church by delineating the moral failings of clergy, bishops, and even the papacy from his pulpit Alexander V issued a papal bull that empowered the Archbishop to proceed against Wycliffism in Prague After the publication of the bull in 1410, Hus appealed to Alexander V, but in vain. The Wycliffe books and valuable manuscripts were burned, and Hus and his adherents were excommunicated by Alexander V. asked to recant; again he refused
  • Mar 14, 1478

    Pazzi conspiracy

  • Mar 14, 1480

    The Spnish Inquisition

  • Mar 14, 1492

    Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean

  • Mar 14, 1498

    Vasco Da Gama sails to India

  • Mar 14, 1517

    Luther 's 95 Theses posted in Wittenberg

  • Period: Mar 14, 1517 to

    Reformation

  • Mar 14, 1521

    Edict of Worms

    The Edict of Worms was a decree issued on 25 May 1521 by Emperor Charles V, declaring:we forbid anyone from this time forward to receive or favour the said Martin Luther. On the contrary, we want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic
  • Mar 14, 1542

    Roman Inquisition

  • Mar 14, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Edict of Nantes

    issued on 13 April 1598, by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. In the Edict, Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity
  • Period: to

    Age of Absolutism

  • Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years'

    These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch RepublicThe treaties did not restore peace all throughout Europe, however, as France and Spain remained at war for the next eleven years, but they did create a basis for national self-determination.

  • The Glorious Revolution

    he overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William of OrangeKing James's policies of religious tolerance after 1685 met with opposition by members of leading political circles, who were troubled by the king's Catholicism and his close ties with FranceThe Revolution permanently ended any chance of Catholicism becoming re-established in England Catholics were denied the right to vote and sit in parliament

  • Peace of Utrecht