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Political crisis: there are power struggles. Several emperors succeeded each other in a short period of time and tensions increased. Military and territorial crisis: unable to maintain such a large territory. -
The Tang dynasty was founded by Li Yuan, a military commander who proclaimed himself emperor in 618 after suppressing a coup staged by the attendants-turned-assassins of the Sui emperor, Yangdi -
The term Gregorian chant generally refers to a type of plainchant, simple, monodic and text-bound music used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church, although it is sometimes used in a broader sense or even as a synonym for plainchant.
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Duke William of Normandy defeats Harold Godwinson and establishes his rule over England. -
Roger Bacon was an English philosopher, proto-scientist and scholastic theologian of the Franciscan order. He is known by the nickname Doctor Mirabilis.
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He was a troubadour, as he composed his works in the language of Oïl, poet and musician.
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It was a disease that kill half of the european population.
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The Siege of Orleans, or Battle of Orleans, was one of the battles fought in the final phase of the Hundred Years' War, in which Saint Joan of Arc took part, and for which she was called the "Maid of Orleans".
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During the 14th century, a cultural movement called humanism began to gain momentum in Italy. -
Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine polymath of the Italian Renaissance. He was a painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, botanist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet and town planner.
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The Byzantine Empire went through several cycles of growth and decline over the course of almost a thousand years, including major territorial losses during the Arab conquest in the 7th century. -
He was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, considered the most famous European Renaissance composer between Dufay, Palestrina and Victoria. He is commonly regarded as the central figure of the Franco-Flemish school.
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Cristóbal Colón discovers America -
Is a polyphonic composition born in the 13th century to be sung in churches, and its themes are usually biblical. They were songs for religious worship in four voices in Latin and "a capella".
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The German Peasants' War, also called the Common Man's Revolution, was an uprising or revolt of the peasants in the Holy Roman Empire.
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The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with several periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other nations in Europe, pitting supporters and opponents of the system known as the Ancien Régime against each other.