MIDDLE AGES

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  • 476

    Fall of western Rome

    Barbarians invaded leading to the doom of rome.
  • Period: 476 to Dec 31, 1500

    MIDDLE AGES

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  • Aug 26, 1071

    Battle of Manzikert

    Fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks and led by Alp Arslan.
  • Jan 1, 1095

    First crusades

    holy wars or armed pilgrimages intended to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim control.
  • Jan 1, 1212

    children's crusade

    visions by a French or German boy; an intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity; bands of children marching to Italy; and children being sold into slavery.
  • Oct 6, 1337

    Hundred year war

    Was fought with the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, for the French throne. The House of Valois claimed the title of King of France, while the Plantagenets claimed the thrones of both France and England. The Plantagenet kings were the 12th-century rulers of the kingdom of England.
  • Nov 10, 1444

    Battle of Varna

    In this battle the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeated the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and János Hunyadi. It was the final battle of the Crusade of Varna.

  • Battle of Roncevaux Pass

    Roland, prefect of the Breton March and commander of the rear guard of Charlemagne's army, was defeated by the Basques. It was fought at Roncevaux Pass, a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain.

  • Battle of elludun

    between Egbert of Wessex and Beornwulf of Mercia, ending the Mercian supremacy over the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. Egbert emerged victorious and became the eighth Bretwalda and the first Anglo-Saxon king to be styled "ruler over all England".

  • Treaty of Verdun

    A treaty between the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Charlemagne, which divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms. It ended the three year long Carolingian Civil War.

  • Battle of Achelous

    on the Achelous river near the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, close to the fortress Tuthom between Bulgarian and Byzantine forces. The result of the battle was a decisive Bulgarian victory which not only secured the previous successes of Simeon I but made him a ruler of the whole Balkan Peninsula excluding the well-protected Byzantine capital Constantinople and the Peloponnese.