Main middle ages

middle ages germany

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  • 500

    Tribes in germany

    Tribes in germany
    The first gemanic tribes appear in northern germany during the nordic Bronze age
  • Period: 500 to Feb 17, 1500

    germany

  • Feb 17, 1000

    holy roman empire

    holy roman empire
    In the early part of the period, central Europe is inhabited by various tribes, either pagan or newly Christian. By 1000, the region is the heartland of the Holy Roman Empire, a loose confederation of territory ruled by a Christian dynasty aspiring to the greatness of Roman and Byzantine imperial power.
  • Feb 20, 1024

    Salian

    1024-1255 - The Salian dynasty rules the Germans
  • Feb 17, 1046

    henry 3

    henry 3
    German Emperor Henry III arrives in Italy and names a German monastic reformer as pope. The series of reforming popes that follow enacts decrees against simony and clerical marriage.
  • Feb 21, 1118

    Templars

    Templars
    The Knights Templar founded to protect Jerusalem and European pilgrims on their journey to the city
  • Feb 17, 1125

    prices

    prices
    German princes abolish the hereditary claim to the throne and establish the right to elect new rulers
  • Feb 21, 1138

    Hohenstaufen dynasty

    Hohenstaufen dynasty
    1138 -1254 - The Hohenstaufen dynasty
  • Feb 17, 1170

    windmill

    windmill
    The first European windmill is developed
  • Feb 23, 1196

    Fredrick 2

    Fredrick 2
    The last great "German" emperor, Frederick II (1196-1250) came to the throne as a baby. After a stormy childhood, during which pope Innocent III was his guardian against more threatening German nobles, he came to the throne in high own right
  • Feb 21, 1273

    Rudolf

    Rudolf
    Rudolf of Hapsburg crowned king of the Germans
  • Feb 20, 1348

    The deaths first strike

    The deaths first strike
    The black detah makes its first deadly strike on Europe infecting millions of people and there loved ones. One third of the population of europe was dead within the first year.
  • Feb 20, 1546

    Emperor charles V defeats protestants

    Emperor charles V defeats protestants
    1546-1547: Emperor Charles V defeats the Protestant princes and allies.Charles won to the Catholic cause some of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1546 he outlawed the Schmalkaldic League He drove the League's troops out of southern Germany and at the Battle of Mühlberg defeated John Frederick, Elector of Saxony and imprisoned Philip of Hesse in 1547.Protestant princes, in alliance with Henry II of France, rebelled against Charles in 1552, which caused Charles to retreat to the Netherlan

  • Charlemagne

    Charlemagne
    Real German history begins with Charlemagne (768-814). The war with the Saxons was the most important one he carried on, and the result of this struggle, of fundamental importance for German history, was that the Saxons were brought into connexion with the other Germanic tribes and did not fall under Scandinavian influence.

  • Charlamgne dies

    Charlamgne dies
    Charmagne dies in 840 near Ingelheim.

  • henry 1

    henry 1
    The fame of Henry I was assured by his victory over the Magyars near Merseburg (933). By regaining Lorraine, that had been lost during the reign of Conrad, he secured a bulwark on the side towards France that permitted the uninterrupted consolidation of his realm.

  • saxon

    saxon
    The saxons rule over all of germany