Medieval

  • Period: 235 to 284

    Emperor switching, 20 in 50 yrs

  • 250

    Goths plunder balkans

  • Period: 250 to 350

    Provincialisatie roman empire

  • Period: 284 to 305

    Diocletian (reforms)

    • Rome divided into 4 parts
  • Period: 306 to 337

    Reign of emperor constantine

    • Promotes Christian God
  • Period: 306 to 337

    Constantine

    • Roman empire restored
  • 312

    Constantine wins a war bc of God

  • 313

    Edict of Milan

    • Declares toleration of all religions in Roman Empire
  • 325

    Council of Nicaea

    • Declares the laws and doctrines of the Christian Church
  • 378

    Visigoths kill Roman emperor

  • 410

    Sack of Rome by Visigoths

  • 430

    Death of Augustine Hippo

    • Major Church Father in the West
  • 453

    Hunnic emperor Atilla died

  • 476

    Romulus Augustus killed by Odoacer

    Romulus Augustus was the last Roman emperor of the west
  • 484

    Visigoths take over Spain and Gaul

  • 489

    Odoacer killed by Theodoric the great

  • 500

    Roman empire looks like jigsaw puzzle

    • only eastern part intact
  • Period: 527 to 565

    Reign of Emperor Justinian

  • Period: 530 to 560

    Benedictine Rule

    • Major monastic rule in the West
  • Period: 590 to 604

    Pope Gregory the Great

    • Sends missionaries to England to convert the kings and people to the romeinskatholieke version of Christianity