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Middle/Dark ages

  • VANDALS SACK ROME
    455

    VANDALS SACK ROME

    This was the third of four ancient sacks of Rome that was led by the vandals who then went to war with the Western Roman Emperor.
  • BENEDICT OF NURSIA
    547

    BENEDICT OF NURSIA

    The Benedict of Nursia is known as the “father of Western monasticism because he created a rule that countless Christians would follow.
  • BATTLE OF TOURS
    Oct 10, 732

    BATTLE OF TOURS

    A christian beat a large army of Spanish moors stopping the Muslims advance into Western Europe.
  • SAINT BEDE
    May 25, 735

    SAINT BEDE

    He was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter.
  • CLOVIS MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY STARTS
    750

    CLOVIS MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY STARTS

    Merovingian dynasty, Frankish dynasty (ad 476–750) traditionally reckoned as the “first race” of the kings of France.
  • Massacre of Verden
    782

    Massacre of Verden

    This event is important because the Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons
  • VIKINGS ATTACK LINIDISFARNE
    793

    VIKINGS ATTACK LINIDISFARNE

    A viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much confusion because they attacked the heart of the kingdom out of nowhere.
  • MISSI DOMINICI
    814

    MISSI DOMINICI

    He was an official commissioned by the Frankish king to supervise the administration
  • CHARLEMAGNE DIES
    Jan 28, 814

    CHARLEMAGNE DIES

    Before Charlemagne dies he crowned his son and after that Charlemagne then dies ending his reign of more than 4 decades.
  • AL-KHWARIZMI
    850

    AL-KHWARIZMI

    AL-KHWARIZMI was a Persian polymath who created a large amount of influential works in mathematics.
  • KING ALFRED OF ENGLAND
    Oct 26, 899

    KING ALFRED OF ENGLAND

    King Alfred was the great kind of the west Saxons that was the only king of England to ever be given a name like that
  • MUHAMMED AL-RAZI
    Oct 15, 925

    MUHAMMED AL-RAZI

    He was a musician but the studied medicine and then became one of the greatest physicians of the medieval period.
  • Battle of Hastings
    Oct 14, 1066

    Battle of Hastings

    The battle of Hastings was important because it was an all out battle the lasted a whole day and decided who was given power and the Normans had took over which meant big changes
  • DOMESDAY BOOK
    1085

    DOMESDAY BOOK

    The book was made so that William The Conqueror could do a survey on his people to assess their wealth and assets.
  • IBN ZUHUR
    1162

    IBN ZUHUR

    Ibn Zuhur was a Muslim physician that did surgery
  • MAGNA CARTA
    Jun 15, 1215

    MAGNA CARTA

    The Magna Carta is a list of the royal rights processed by King John of England.
  • GENGHIS KHAN
    Aug 18, 1227

    GENGHIS KHAN

    Genghis Khan was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire which then led to the largest contiguous empire in history after he had died.
  • Sundiata Keita
    1255

    Sundiata Keita

    Sundiata Keita was a prince and founder of the Mali Empire he also laid the foundation or a powerful and wealthy African empire.
  • MARCO POLO
    1271

    MARCO POLO

    Marco Polo wrote the book called the Travels of Marco Polo, which describes his voyage to and experiences in Asia.
  • MANSA MUSA JOURNEY FOR THE HAJJ
    1337

    MANSA MUSA JOURNEY FOR THE HAJJ

    Mansa Musa starts his pilgrimage to mecca to satisfy the five pillars of Islam
  • JANI BEG SIEGE OF KAFFA/CAFFA
    1343

    JANI BEG SIEGE OF KAFFA/CAFFA

    Jani Beg commanded a large Crimean Tatar force that had attacked the Crimean port city of Kaffa.
  • CHRISTINE DE PISAN
    Sep 11, 1364

    CHRISTINE DE PISAN

    She was a poet and author at the court of King Charles VI and after her husband died she served as a court writer in medieval France
  • GUY DE CHAULIAC
    1368

    GUY DE CHAULIAC

    Guy De Chauliac was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a influential book on surgery
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
    Oct 25, 1400

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    He is considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages because of the Canterbury Tales.
  • JOAN OF ARC
    May 30, 1431

    JOAN OF ARC

    She was a maiden that was praised because of her role in the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years War and was declared as a catholic saint.