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Period: 500 to Oct 26, 1500
Middle Ages
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Uniting of the Franks
This brought all germanic kingdoms into one. -
Oct 26, 742
Charlemagne was born
This is the day he was born. -
Period: Oct 26, 751 to
Carolingian Dynasty
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Oct 26, 1066
Normans take control of England
Conquest leading to his crowning as the King of England and the establishment of Norman rule over England. -
Nov 26, 1066
Battle of Hastings
this battle was because of a a dispute over the succession to the English throne. -
Oct 26, 1075
Banning of lay investiture
This was more twords bishops and abbots than the church. -
Nov 26, 1093
crusades
The byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus sent an appeal to Pope Urban II. -
Period: Nov 26, 1096 to Nov 26, 1270
crusades
a crusade is a holly war and they were fought to gain holy land. http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/the-crusades.htm -
Nov 26, 1100
vernacular literature
this is the speech of the common people. -
Oct 26, 1176
Battle of Legnano
This fight was fought between the holy roman empire and the lombards. -
Oct 26, 1215
Magna Carta gives rights to free men in England
The magna carta is a charter of liberty and political rights obtained from King John of England by his rebellious barons at Runnymede in 1215. -
Nov 26, 1215
Magna Carta
This was created for the purpose of limiting the powers of the monarch and preserving the basic legal rights of all free men in England. -
Nov 26, 1295
Parliament
parlement formed in England. -
Period: Nov 26, 1337 to Nov 26, 1453
hundred years' war
the reasons for this war was economic and that Edward III asserted that he in fact had a superior claimed to the throne because his mother was Philip the Fair's daughter. -
Period: Nov 26, 1340 to Nov 26, 1400
bubonic plague- black death
this was caused by rats that were contaminated and then it spred and killed a lot of people.http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-diseases/plague-article/ -
Nov 26, 1414
Great Schism
This was a split between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches. -
Nov 26, 1429
Joan of arc joind the war.
She claims that she heard voices from an angel that told her to join the war. -
Nov 26, 1492
Granada falls
Granada fell to the Christian army of Ferdinand and Isabella, the spanish monarchs. -
Crowning of Charlemagne by the pope
This was the begining of his reign. -
Vikings first raid sritkes Portland, England
Vikings atacked to rob them. -
Charlemagne died
This was the end of his reign. -
Otto was crowned
The Pope crowned Otto after he invaded italy. -
Period: to
Reign of Charlemagne
