Medieval History Timeline

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  • 4 BCE

    Jesus is Born

  • 325

    Council of Nicaea

  • 426

    St. Augustine writes City of God

  • 476

    Fall of the Western Roman Empire

  • 493

    Theodoric begins ruling the Western Roman Empire

  • 524

    Boethius Writes the Consolation of Philosophy

  • 571

    Muhammed was Born

  • 610

    Islam begins

  • 673

    The Venerable Bede is born

  • 742

    Charlemagne is Born

  • 789

    First account of a Viking raid

  • 871

    Alfred comes to the Throne

  • 962

    Fire in London

    Cities and Churches burned by Vikings
  • 1000

    The wheeled plough was invented

  • 1066

    William the Conqueror establishes the Feudal System

  • 1095

    First Crusade starts

  • 1137

    Eleanor marries Louis VII

  • 1147

    Second Crusade starts

  • 1152

    Eleanor marries Henry II

  • 1173

    Revolt of 1173

    Prince Henry and Eleonar try to overthrow Henry 2
  • 1189

    Richard the Lionhearted becomes King

  • 1189

    Third Crusade starts

  • 1199

    John Lackland becomes King

  • 1199

    Richard the Lionhearted dies

    By an arrow to the hand from a little kid
  • 1202

    Fourth Crusade starts

  • 1215

    John Signs the Magna Carta

    A document preventing the monarch from using a great deal of power without checking with parliament
  • 1216

    Henry III becomes king

  • 1217

    Fifth Crusade starts

  • 1272

    Edward I becomes King

    Good king
  • 1307

    Edward II becomes king

  • 1314

    Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, attacks England

  • 1326

    Guy dispenser is executed

  • 1327

    Edward III becomes King

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years' War

  • Period: 1346 to 1353

    The Black Plague

  • 1377

    Richard II becomes King

  • 1399

    Henry IV succeeds Richard II

  • 1413

    Henry V becomes king

  • 1415

    Battle of Agincourt

  • 1422

    Henry V dies of camp fever

  • 1422

    Henry VI becomes King

  • 1428

    Joan of Arc requests to be taken to the Dauphin’s Army by the Voices of St. Margaret, St. Catherine, and St. Michael

  • 1429

    Dauphin becomes Charles VII of France

  • 1431

    Joan of Arc is executed

  • 1517

    Luther writes 95 Theses

  • 1518

    Heidelberg Disputation

  • 1518

    Cajetan meets with Luther in Augsburg

  • 1521

    Diet of Worms