middle ages (billy williams)

  • islam is founded
    Oct 13, 610

    islam is founded

    The best jihad struggle is by the one who strives against his own self for Allah, The Mighty and Majestic," by the Prophet Muhammad
  • battle of tours
    Oct 13, 732

    battle of tours

    A Moslem army, in a crusading search for land and the end of Christianity, after the conquest of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa, began to invade Western Europe under the leadership of Abder Rahman, governor of Spain.
  • Oct 13, 1000

    vikings discover new world

    the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang on steroids - an appropriate description of the Viking raiders who ventured from their Scandinavian homeland to pillage the coasts of northern Europe beginning in the 8th century.
  • battle of hastings
    Oct 13, 1066

    battle of hastings

    The battle of Hastings took place in the year AD 1066 after a dispute over the succession to the English throne.
  • the first crusade
    Oct 13, 1095

    the first crusade

  • magna carta
    Oct 13, 1215

    magna carta

    Widely viewed as one of the most important legal documents in the history of democracy.
  • marco polo
    Oct 13, 1254

    marco polo

    Marco Polo 1254 to 1324 is probably the most famous Westerner traveled on the Silk Road.
  • black plague
    Oct 13, 1348

    black plague

    Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe.
  • st. benedict

    st. benedict

    Founder of western monasticism, born at Nursia 480 died at Monte Cassino, 543.
  • justinians code

    justinians code

    Corupus Iurus Civilis or the Justinian Code, was the result of Emperor Justinian's desire that existing Roman law be collected into a simple and clear system of laws or codes
  • carolingian renaissance

    This Carolingian Renaissance was an isolated phenomenon. Learning did not catch fire throughout Europe
  • Period: to Oct 13, 1348

    middle ages (billy williams)