The Dark Ages

By Elizabethlp
  • Fall of the Roman Empire
    476

    Fall of the Roman Empire

    The Visigoths made a brutal attack on the empire, causing it to fall.
  • Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1300

    The Dark Age

  • 527

    Justinian I becomes Eastern Roman Emperor.

  • Jan 1, 622

    Muhammed migrates from Mecca to Medina

  • Jan 1, 631

    Death of Muhammed.

    By this point all of Arabia is Muslim
  • Jan 1, 1049

    Pope Leo IX ascends to the papal throne

  • Jan 1, 1099

    First Crusade.

    Jerusalem is re-taken from the Muslims on the urging of Pope Urban II.
  • Jan 1, 1215

    The Magna Carta is sealed by John of England.

  • Jan 1, 1295

    Marco Polo publishes his tales of China.

  • Alfred the Great assumes the throne

    The first king of a united England.

  • Vikings attack Paris.

  • Period: to

    Tang Dynasty in China.

    The essential administrative system of this dynasty lasts for 286 years.

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