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  • Anno Domini calendar invented
    525

    Anno Domini calendar invented

    Description: created by Dionysius Exiguus to enumerate the years in his Easter table.
    Significance: to replace the the Diocletian era that had been used in an old Easter table.
  • Period: 529 to 534

    Code of Justinian issued

    Description: collections of law and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantines emperor.
    Significance: it rationalized hundreds of years of existing roman statues.
  • Hegira
    622

    Hegira

    Description: a journey especially when undertaken to escape froma dangerous or undesirable situation.
    Significance: the prophet Muhammad completes his Hegira from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution.
  • Period: 747 to 750

    Abbasid Revolution

    Description: also called the movement of the men of the black raiment was the overthrow of the Umayyad caliphate.
    Significance: this revolution marked the end of the Arab empire and the beginning of a more inclusive, multiethnic state in the Middle East.
  • Charlemagne crowned emperor
    800

    Charlemagne crowned emperor

    Description: Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III.
    Significance: in this role he encouraged the Carolingian renaissance, a cultural and intellectual revival in Europe.
  • Treaty of Verdun
    843

    Treaty of Verdun

    Description: this treaty divided the Frankish Empire into 3 kingdoms among the surviving sons of the Emperor Luis the Pious.
    Significance: partitioning of the Carolingian empire.
  • Norman conquest of England
    1066

    Norman conquest of England

    Description: invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Normans, Bretons, Flemish and men from other french provinces.
    Significance: the Norman conquest broke England's links with Denmark and Norway and connected the country to Normandy and Europe.
  • First Crusade is launched
    1095

    First Crusade is launched

    Description: military expeditions organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expantion.
    Significance: the objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from the islamic rule.
  • Gothic buildings emerge
    1135

    Gothic buildings emerge

    Description: an architectural style in Europe that lasted from the mid 12th century to the 16th century.
    Significance: style of masonry building characterixed by cavernous spaces with the expanse of walls broken up by overlaid tracery.
  • Genghis Khan becomes ruler of Mongols
    1206

    Genghis Khan becomes ruler of Mongols

    Description: he was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.
    Significance: largest contiguous empire in history, he united many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia.
  • Siege of Baghdad
    1258

    Siege of Baghdad

    Description: this siege took place in Baghdad in 1258 lasting for 13 days.
    Significance: the siege, laid by Ilkhanate Mongol forces and allied troops, involved the sack of Baghdad, which was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate at that time.
  • Dante Alighieri completes the Divine Comedy
    1320

    Dante Alighieri completes the Divine Comedy

    Description: the Divine Comedy is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri.
    Significance: this is one of the most important works of medieval literature. An imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.
  • Period: 1347 to 1351

    Black Death

    Description: it was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353.
    Significance: it is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa

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