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The middle ages begin -
his empire was so immense that his reign, with its successes and failures, profoundly changed Western society.
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The schism lasted 40 years, during which time there were two papal sees, one in Avignon and the other in Rome. Two councils were held: Council of Pisa
Council of Constance -
Were a series of military campaigns organized by the popes and Western Christian powers to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control and then defend those conquests. There were eight official Great Crusades between 1095 and 1270 and many more unofficial ones.
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The Renaissance was characterized by the return to the classical Greco-Latin roots of the West, which meant a revaluation of its myths, discourses and philosophy, after centuries of dogmatic religious thought. -
Confrontation between France and England. It is the longest conflict in Europe, in fact it lasted 116 years.
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The largest plague epidemic in European history broke out, a disease that passes from animals to humans, contagion was easy because rats and humans were present.
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Johaness Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, began designing a machine capable of producing pages of text at an incredible speed—a product that he hoped would offset losses from a failed attempt to sell metal mirrors.