Medieval europe

Stanley Wangs timeline 1

  • 507

    CLovis dictates the Salic Law

    He moves te Frankish captital to Pari. He dies and splits his kingdom into four parts leaving each to one of his sons.
  • 572

    Byazantine Empire

    Byzantine emperor Justin II breaks peace with Persia and invades Nisibis.Lombards take the Byzantine stronghold of Pavia and establish the Kingdom of the Lombards in Nothern Italy
  • Feb 12, 600

    Small pox arrives in Euope for the first time. Augstine of Canterbury converts King Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity.

    Small pox arrives in Euope for the first time. Augstine of Canterbury converts King Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity.
  • Feb 12, 641

    Arab Siege

    The first Arab Siege of Constantinople begins.
  • Feb 12, 707

    Byzantines lose the Balearic Islands to the Moors

  • Feb 12, 723

    Saint Boniface cuts Thors Oak near Fritzlar ,marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the nothern Germanic tribes.

  • Feb 12, 732

    The leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordova,Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi

    The leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordova,Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi
  • Feb 12, 751

    Pepin the short is elected as king of the franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and the beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.

    Pepin the short is elected as king of the franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and the beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.
  • Feb 20, 1010

    Beowulf is then created

  • Feb 20, 1031

    The moorish caliphate of cordoba collapses

  • Feb 20, 1033

    Panic spreads throughout europe at the end of the world may be near

  • Feb 20, 1037

    george maniaces begins a campaign against the arabs in sicily

  • Feb 20, 1047

    the first contact occurs between the byzantine empire and the seljuks

  • Feb 20, 1048

    last viking raid on the kingdom of england

  • Feb 20, 1055

    the seljuk turks capture baghdad

  • Feb 20, 1134

    the saint denis basilica, near paris, is damaged by fire

  • Feb 20, 1137

    louis Vll is crowned king of france

  • Feb 20, 1150

    The earliest reference is made to Gypsies

  • Feb 20, 1155

    frederick l barbarossa is crowned holy roman empire

  • Feb 20, 1167

    William Marshal is given the name "the greatest knight"

  • Feb 20, 1183

    saladin conquers syria and becomes sultan

  • Feb 20, 1215

    King Jonh of England forced his seal on the Magna Carta

  • Feb 20, 1233

    The Inquisition is established

  • Feb 20, 1248

    Roger Bacon published the formula for black powder

  • Feb 20, 1259

    King Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree the Treaty of Paris

  • Feb 20, 1265

    n westminister the first english parliament conduct first meeting

  • Feb 20, 1270

    King Louis IX of France launches the 8th Crusade

  • Feb 20, 1382

    the firs recorded association of valentine's day with romantic love

  • Feb 20, 1400

    the medici family becomes powerful in florence

  • Feb 20, 1403

    jan hus begins preaching wycliffite ideas in bohemia

  • Feb 20, 1412

    the medici family are made official bankers of the papacy

  • Feb 20, 1427

    the first band of gypsies visits paris

  • Feb 20, 1431

    nineteen year old joan of arc is burned at stake for being accused of hearing the devil

  • Feb 20, 1440

    the prussian confederation is formed

  • FUre devastates consantinople

    May-Earthquake strikes Constaninople, The Avars advance from the Danube to the walls of Constaninople.
  • Reccared, King of the Visigoths

    The king of the visigoths all win military victories over the Byzantine Empire and gain territory at their expence.
  • The Lombards convert to Christiaity.

    The Lombards convert to Christiaity.
  • The plauge reaches rome, killing pope pelaguis II.

    The plauge reaches rome, killing pope pelaguis II.
  • A byzantine army under nikephoros phokas captures and plunders aleppo

  • Cedric and Cyrinic land somewhere in te great south

  • Cadwalders launches the last wedish in saxon in britian

  • The ango saxon chronicle records he first appearance of vikings in england

  • In the earliest recorded viking raid on ireland, they attack iona, inisbofin and inismurray

  • Oleg of novgorod takes kiev and makes it his capital

  • December 25-Pope leo 111 crowns charlemagne emperor of the holy poman empire in saint peter's basilica in rome

  • Egbert of wessex becomes the first king of england

  • Egbert of wessex conquers mercia and is recognized as bretwalda

  • First siege of constantinople by the RUS

  • Rurik gains control of novgorod

  • Louis 11 beats the saracen invaders in italy

  • Nine battles are fought between the danes and wessex

  • Christianity is adopted in iceland

  • The vikings besiege paris

  • The moors lose madrid to the kingdom of leon

  • King edmund 1 of england takes northumbria from the vikings

  • Olga of kiev converts to the eastern orthodox church from paganism

  • Marking the start if the Reconquista by a Christian miltary force(under Pelagius of Asturias) of the Iberian Peninsula following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711. Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian and Khan Tervel of Bulgaria force the troops o

    Marking the start if the Reconquista by a Christian miltary force(under Pelagius of Asturias) of the Iberian Peninsula following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711. Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian and Khan Tervel of Bulgaria force the troops of the Umayyad Caliphate to abandon the Second Arab Seige of Constantinople (717-718), preventing the spread a major Arab incursion into the Byzantine Empire.