Social Sciences Time-line

  • 395

    Division of Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire was divided into Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire
  • 476

    Middle Ages began

    The Western Roman Empire was invaded by barbarians and disappeared in the year 476
  • 481

    Clovins, Kings of the Franks

  • 527

    Beginning of Justinian´s reign

  • 570

    Birth of Muhammed

  • Dec 24, 622

    Hegira

  • Dec 24, 626

    Persians attack Constantinople

  • Dec 24, 632

    Death of Muhammed

  • Dec 24, 661

    Beginning of the Umayyad Caliphate

  • Dec 24, 711

    Muslims invade the Iberian Peninsula

  • Dec 24, 711

    Muslims occupied the Iberian Peninsula

  • Dec 24, 722

    Battle of Covadonga

  • Dec 24, 732

    Battle of Poitiers

  • Dec 24, 739

    Alfonso I, King of Asturias

  • Dec 24, 750

    Beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate

  • Dec 24, 751

    Pippin the Short, King of the Franks

  • Dec 24, 756

    Abd-al-Rahman I proclaimed the independent emirate

  • Dec 24, 800

    Charlemagne is crowned emperor

  • Dec 24, 843

    Treaty of Verdun

  • Dec 24, 929

    Beginning of the Córdoba Caliphate

  • Dec 24, 1031

    Taifa kingdoms

  • Dec 24, 1038

    Castilla and León unite

  • Dec 24, 1086

    Arrival of the Almoravids

  • Dec 24, 1145

    Almohad invasion

  • Dec 24, 1212

    Battle of Navas de Tolosa

  • Dec 24, 1230

    Castilla and León reunite

  • Dec 24, 1232

    Nasrid kingdom

  • Dec 24, 1453

    Ottoman Turks attack Byzantine Empire

  • Dec 24, 1453

    Start of the Early Modern Period

  • Dec 24, 1492

    Surrender of Granada

  • Dec 24, 1492

    End of Nasrid kingdom

  • Dec 24, 1492

    Discovery of America

  • Dec 24, 1516

    Carlos I, king of Spain

  • Dec 24, 1519

    Carlos V, Holy Roman Emperor

  • Dec 24, 1521

    Start of the Reformation

  • Dec 24, 1545

    Council of Trent

  • Dec 24, 1547

    Battle of Mühlberg

  • Dec 24, 1556

    Felipe II, king of Spain

  • Dec 24, 1568

    "Morisco" rebellion

  • Dec 24, 1571

    Battle of Lepanto

  • Dec 24, 1580

    Felipe II, king of Portugal

  • Rebellion of the "comuneros"