MAIN HISTORICAL FACT

  • Beginning of the Middle ages
    476

    Beginning of the Middle ages

    Disintegration of the Western Roman Empire
  • Medieval carnival
    654

    Medieval carnival

    Carnival was the representation of paganism: the people hid under masks and disguises
  • Period: 786 to 987

    Mezquita de Córdoba

    785, Abderramán I had a mosque built with the intention of reaffirming his independence from Abbasid power.
  • Charlemagne
    800

    Charlemagne

    Charlemagne crowned Emperor in Rome. The Vikings take Normandy. Treaty of Verdun, partition of the Carolingian Empire. Resurgence of trade and cities.
  • Period: 876 to

    Feudalism

    Was the preponderant system of political, social and economic organization in the Middle Ages.
  • Musical notation
    896

    Musical notation

    Was a series of symbols drawn over the text to denote changes in pitch.
  • Period: 1234 to 1300

    Church of Notre Dame school

    Centre of musical activity shifted to the church of Notre-Dame in Paris
  • Period: 1266 to 1337

    GIOTTO

    Tradition a shepherd boy from the hills north of Florence, became Cimabue's apprentice and emerged as the most outstanding painter of his time.[
  • Conde Lucanor
    1335

    Conde Lucanor

    The book El conde Lucanor was published in the Middle ages
  • The beginning of the Renaissance
    1453

    The beginning of the Renaissance

    The Renaissance began with the fall of the Byzantine Empaire
  • 1453

    End of the Middle Ages

    Fall of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Ottoman Turks fifteenth century
  • The last dinner

    The last dinner

    Jesus shares bread and wine with his twelve apostles
  • Glorious Revolution.

    Glorious Revolution.

    It took place in England in 1688 and meant since then a limit to monarchical power.
  • The end of the Renaissance

    The end of the Renaissance

    The Renaissance ended in 1789 with the French revolution .