Middle Ages

By McKenna Soles
  • 312

    Constantine Defeats Maxentius

    Battle of Milvian Bridge outside Rome, becoming emperor of the West
  • 321

    St. Benedict

    Established the First Monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy.
  • 330

    Constantinople

    Constantinople is designated the capital of the Roman Empire.
  • Jan 1, 1054

    East-West Schism

    the division of western (Latin) and eastern (Greek) branches of the church
  • Jan 1, 1095

    First Crusade

    Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade at Clermont, France
  • Jan 1, 1147

    Second Crusade

  • Jan 1, 1190

    Third Crusade

  • Jan 1, 1200

    Fourth Crusade

  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    A document that King John of England was forced into signing because it reduced the power he held as a king of England and allowed for the formation of a parliment.
  • Jan 1, 1254

    Marco Polo

  • Jan 1, 1337

    Hundred Years War Begins

  • Nov 1, 1347

    Beginning of the Black Death

    Appeard during a time of economic depression in Western Europe and reoccurs frequently until the fifteenth century
  • Nov 15, 1351

    End of Black Death

  • Jan 1, 1412

    Joan of Arc

    Jeanne d'arc was a peasent girl who believed that she was the voice of god
  • Jan 1, 1453

    Hundered Years War Ends

  • Jan 1, 1453

    The Fall of Constantinople

  • Charlemagne was Cowned Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire

    Symoblized the union between Church and state.

  • Louis I the Pious

    king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor

  • Treaty of Verdun

    Division of the Holy Roman Empire

  • Viking Invasions

  • Roman Empire Divides

    Divides intp the East and West

  • Baptism of Clovis

    King of Franks

  • Jerusalem

    Captured by Muslim armies