Medieval Europe Digital Timeline

By Brian Truong
  • 476

    Start of Medieval Europe

    The Western Roman Empire fell, marking the start of Medieval Europe
  • Period: 476 to 1500

    Medieval Europe

  • Jan 1, 600

    Spread of Smallpox

    Smallpox spreads from India to Europe. With little hygiene and sanitation, diseases like smallpox spread.
  • Jan 1, 700

    Conversion to Catholicism complete

    Benedictine missionaries complete the conversion of England to catholicism after it was begun by St. Gregory the Great.
  • Oct 14, 1066

    Battle of Hastings

    Battle of Hastings, fought between King Harold II of England and Duke William of Normandy after King of England Edward the Confessor died without a successor.
    The Battle is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.
  • Jan 1, 1096

    First Crusade

    The first Crusade started as a widespread pilgrimage in France and Germany and it ended as a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy lands taken in the muslim conquests of the Levent
    The Pope wanted to see the kingdom of Christendom unite under one banner to re-claim the Holy Lands. These expeditions lasted 200 years. He called all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land.
  • Aug 5, 1100

    King Henry I

    Henry I is crowned King of England.
  • Feb 1, 1145

    Second Crusade

    The Second Crusade is launched
    1 Feb 1145 - 1 Jan 1148
  • Jan 1, 1347

    Bubonic Plague in Europe

    Black Death kills around a third of the population of Europe
    1 Jan 1347 - 1 Jan 1351
  • Jan 1, 1381

    Peasant revolt in England

    Quickest-spread revolt in English history, and the most popular revolt of the Late Middle Ages.
  • Jan 1, 1417

    Renaissance begins

    The renaissance was a time of cultural change from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth century