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476
Beginning of the Middle ages
Disintegration of the Western Roman Empire -
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. -
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. -
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.[ -
1335
Conde Lucanor
The book El conde Lucanor was published in the Middle ages -
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
Jesus shares bread and wine with his twelve apostles -
Glorious Revolution.
It took place in England in 1688 and meant since then a limit to monarchical power. -
The end of the Renaissance
The Renaissance ended in 1789 with the French revolution .