Medievil Timeline

By cwestacott
  • Period: 211 to

    23 emperors, 20 of them murdered

  • 375

    Huns begian invasion of western europe

  • 400

    King Arthur Pendragon

    It is not known when king Arthur actually existed but from evidence and surrounding events, this was the most likely time. that is of course if he even existed. it was said that king arthur got his sword, excalibur, from either between two rocks and only a true leader could pull it out, or he got handed it from the lady of the lake. other things inlude that he had a severnt called merlin who might of been a magiacian aswell and had the power to changes peoples appearance.
  • 406

    Vandals on the move

  • 410

    Anglo saxon Invasion of britain

  • 410

    Romans leave england

    the roman soldiers from england leave to defend rome against the visgoths
  • 410

    rome sacked by visigoths

    with aleric in charge, the visigoths finally loot and sack rome after waiting ouside for 2 years. they used this strategy because they wanted the romans to get weak and die.
  • 410

    aleric dies from a fever

    Alaric was the King of the Visigoths from 395–410. Alaric is most famous for his sack of Rome in 410, which marked a decisive event in the decline of the Roman Empire. he was buried in a traditional visigothic way.
  • 410

    visigoths leave rome after finding no food

    the vsigoths leave quite dissappinted after they find only money for three days and no food. shortly arfter this there leader aleric dies from a fever
  • Period: 434 to 453

    Attilla is head os the hunnic empire

    Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire, which stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea.
  • 450

    britons fight amongst themselves

    the britons fight amongst themselves, Vortigern invites saxons to help but instead they fight them, ultimately conquering england
  • 450

    angles, saxons and jutes invade britian

    britian becomes an anglo-saxon country
  • 455

    vandals loot rome

  • 476

    Collapse of western roman empire

    this is the date people think of when they think about the fall of the roman empire
  • 476

    the last emperor of western rome

    this date plays a huge role in the fall of western rome.
  • Period: 476 to Dec 31, 1066

    dark ages

    the period of time when there was not real advances in any feild. this includes art, technolgy, and poems. but in this time christianity spread alot around the people as the romans where gone. there was frequent fighting happening but some inventions in this time where- mirrors, compasses, tooth brushes, rat traps and soap.
  • Period: Jan 1, 742 to

    charlemagne

    Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800
  • Feb 24, 1010

    Vikings second invasion of england

  • Period: Jan 1, 1066 to Dec 31, 1154

    Norman england

  • Period: Jan 1, 1066 to Dec 31, 1485

    the middle ages

    it is called the middle ages because it is in the middle of two more prolific periods, the renaissance and the dark ages. some people even call the medievil period the middles ages instead. all the crusades happened in this time
  • Feb 24, 1066

    Norman invasion of england

    norman ivades and conquers england. as a result of this the britons have to move to ireland and scotland.
  • Feb 24, 1066

    battle of hastings

  • Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Dec 31, 1099

    first crusade

    The First Crusade was a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant, ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099. it was launched by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos
  • Period: Jan 1, 1144 to Dec 31, 1155

    second crusade

    The Second Crusade was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa the previous year to the forces of Zengi. The county had been founded during the First Crusade by Baldwin of Boulogne in 1098. While it was the first Crusader state to be founded, it was also the first to fall.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1187 to Dec 31, 1192

    third crusade

    The Third Crusade, also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. It was largely successful, but fell short of its ultimate goal—the reconquest of Jerusalem.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1202 to Dec 31, 1204

    fourth crusade

    The Fourth Crusade was originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and conquered the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. This is seen as one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1217 to Dec 31, 1221

    fifth crusade

    The Fifth Crusade was an attempt to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering the powerful Ayyubid state in Egypt. Pope Innocent III and his successor Pope Honorius III organized crusading armies led by the king Andrew II of Hungary and the Duke Leopold VI of Austria, and a foray against Jerusalem ultimately left the city in Muslim hands. Later in 1218, a German army led by Oliver of Cologne, and a mixed army of Dutch, Flemish and Frisian soldiers led by
  • Period: Jan 1, 1228 to Dec 31, 1229

    sixth crusade

    The Sixth Crusade started in 1228 as an attempt to regain Jerusalem. It began seven years after the failure of the Fifth Crusade. It involved very little actual fighting. The diplomatic maneuvering of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II resulted in the Kingdom of Jerusalem regaining control of Jerusalem and other areas for fifteen years.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1248 to Dec 31, 1254

    seventh crusade

    The Seventh Crusade was a crusade led by Louis IX of France. Approximately 800,000 bezants were paid in ransom for King Louis who, along with thousands of his troops, was captured and defeated by the Egyptian army led by the Ayyubid Sultan Turanshah supported by the Bahariyya Mamluks led by Faris ad-Din Aktai, Baibars al-Bunduqdari, Qutuz , Aybak and Qalawun.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1270 to Dec 31, 1270

    eighth crusade

    The Eighth Crusade was a crusade launched by Louis IX, King of France, in 1270. The Eighth Crusade is sometimes counted as the Seventh, if the Fifth and Sixth Crusades of Frederick II are counted as a single crusade. The Ninth Crusade is sometimes also counted as part of the Eighth. Eventually louis IX was killed but tunis pleaded for treaty and opened trade
  • Period: Jan 1, 1271 to Dec 31, 1272

    ninth crusade

    The Ninth Crusade, which is sometimes grouped with the Eighth Crusade, is commonly considered to be the last major medieval Crusade to the Holy Land.Louis IX of France's failure to capture Tunis in the Eighth Crusade led Prince Edward of England to sail to Acre in what is known as the Ninth Crusade. The Ninth Crusade saw several impressive victories for Edward over Baibars. Ultimately the Crusade did not so much fail as withdraw, since Edward had pressing concerns
  • Period: Jan 1, 1348 to Dec 31, 1350

    the black death

    The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, it has been conclusively proven via analysis of ancient DNA from plague victims in northern and southern Europe that the pathogen responsible is the Yersinia pestis bacterium
  • Period: Jan 1, 1485 to

    the renaisance

    means new beginning. in this time alot of advances came from the things that did not advance in the dark ages.

  • hadrians wall

    the great emperor of rome, Hadrian, built this wall becasue he did not want the empire getting to big and out of control. the scotish people where then cut off from the romans and not allowed in. this is an example of one of the great walls built by the romans

  • death of roman emperor Marcos aurelius

  • Vikings first invasion of england

  • roman empire at its largest

    the time when the romans had more territory than ever before and there army was at its strongest.

  • Ostrogoths (eastern goths) rule italy

  • Charlemagne crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III

  • visigoths waiting outside

    the visigoths have started there attack on the romans by waiting outside and trapping them on the inside of the walls

  • Empire divides into two parts

    because the empire was getting too big the emperors decided to make it into to parts. eastern rome and western rome. western rome had the capital city Rome
  • Period: to

    Anglo saxon engalnd

  • Period: to Dec 31, 1100

    vikings period

    one of the most feared groups, the vikings controlled alot of the northern part of rome. they tried to conquere england twice but were unsuccessful. imagine the world now if the viking empire had ruled for longer...