Time toast assignment

By cwaite
  • 476

    Starting point of Middle Ages

    The fall of Roman Empire allows Christianity to spread because the people were no longer are loyal to the Empire, but now to Jesus.
  • 500

    Tikal

    became a Maya City
  • 525

    Dionysius Exigus Easter table "Anno Domini calendar"

    A monk created to monitor dating of Easter. He would have liked the year 1 AD to be the year Jesus Christ was born, but it has been determined since that he was born well before that.
  • 563

    Saint Columbus found Iona

    Convert Picts to Christianity, destroyed in 794
  • 570

    Muhammad is born

  • 590

    Gregory the Great

    Gregory the Great becomes the Pope
  • 600

    Fires destroy buildings in Teotihuacan

    Tikal becomes the largest city in Mesoamerica.
  • 610

    Revelations begin for Muhammad

  • 619

    Year of Sorrow

    Muhammad's wife Khadija and Uncle Abu Talib both pass away
  • 622

    Medina

    Muhammad leaves Mecca and moves to Medina
  • 629

    Mecca

    Muhammad returns to Mecca
  • 630

    Last Roman-Persian War

    New Arab armies under Islam
  • 632

    Death of Muhammad

  • 638

    Jerusalem captured

    Jerusalem captured by Arab army mixed of Muslims and Christians
  • 641

    Battle of Nahavand

    Muslims conquer Persia
  • 643

    Taken of Alexandria

    Amr ibn al-As and Arab army take Alexandra
  • 650

    Xochicalco

    founded by Olmeca-Xicallanca
  • 718

    Another attach by Arab army on Constantinople

    1 year in length, Umayyad Caliphate ran, but would soon withdraw from Byzantine.
  • 732

    Battle of Tours

    Charles Martel stops Muslim advance
  • 735

    Death of Bede

    "The Father of English History" passed away
  • 750

    Abbaside Caliphate

    longest lasting caliphate
  • 800

    Charlemagne

    Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
  • 843

    Division of Charlemagne's Empire

    Founding of Holy Roman Empire and France now considered separate states
  • 863

    First Schism

    Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church split
  • 871

    Alfred the Great

    Crowned king of united England
  • 910

    Battle of Tettenhall

    King Edward the Elder defeats Northumbrian Vikings
  • 910

    Cluny Abbey founded

    would be an important centre of Christianity in the Middle Ages
  • 1054

    The Eastern-West Schism

    divided the church into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
  • 1077

    Henry IV

    stand barefoot in the snow and asks forgiveness from the Pope
  • 1095

    First Cursade

    Pope Urban ordered the capture of Holy Land.
  • 1098

    The Cistercian Order

    Founded
  • 1180

    Mishneh Torah

    Moses ben Maimon writes a book about Judaism from 1170-1180
  • 1189

    Richard I

    crowned king of England
  • 1215

    Fourth Lateran Council

    Thought to have Jews and Muslims wear identification marks to tell them from Christians.