Medieval Europe By evernote52 962 Beginning of the Holy Roman Empire 962 The Beginning of the Holy Roman Empire 1176 Lombard League defeats the German Emperor 1192 Treaty of Jaffa 1204 Sack of Constantinople 1300 Beginning of the Renaissance 1300 Beginning of the Renaissance 1348 The Black Death 1348 The Black Death 1492 Columbus sent to America 1521 Cortes Defeats Aztecs 1572 Spain conquers Inca 1654 French and Indian War Begins 1688 Glorious Revolution 1770 Cook Maps East Coast of Australia 1775 War of Independence (America) 1795 Britain Gained Western Cape from the Dutch 1803 Napoleonic War 1807 Danish British Gunboat War 1845 Great Irish Famine 1866 Third Italian War of Independence 2000 Jdbfbr