the middle age timeline

  • Period: 500 to

    the middle ages

  • Dec 5, 742

    charlemagne is declared "Emperor of the Romas"

    religion
  • Dec 7, 1087

    William the Conqueror began his rule

    politics
  • Dec 5, 1088

    pope urban ii calls for war

    war and religion
  • Dec 7, 1096

    First Crusade begins

    war
  • Sep 23, 1122

    concordat of worms

    religion
  • Dec 5, 1145

    second crusade begins

    religion and politics
  • Dec 5, 1167

    lombard league defeats fredrick

    war politics
  • Dec 5, 1170

    thomas becket murdered

    war
  • Dec 5, 1187

    salah al-din recaptures jerusalem

    war religion
  • Dec 7, 1189

    Third Crusade begins

    war
  • Dec 7, 1209

    Franciscan order founded

    religion
  • Dec 7, 1212

    Children’s Crusade

    war
  • Dec 5, 1215

    magna carta signed

    Magna Carta (Latin for Great Charter),[1] also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in the year 1215
  • Dec 7, 1216

    Dominican order founded

    The order was founded by St. Dominic in 1216 to be an "order of preachers".
  • Jun 1, 1265

    dante alighieri born

    writing
  • Dec 5, 1268

    the year the cardinals began to elect each new people

    war
  • Dec 7, 1291

    the last Crusade, when Muslims captured Acre

    war
  • Dec 5, 1324

    defender of the peace written

    writing
  • Dec 5, 1337

    hundred years war begins

    The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France and their various allies for control of the French throne.
  • Dec 7, 1343

    Geoffrey Chaucer born

    birth
  • Dec 5, 1347

    black death spreads into Europe

    The firsreligion war and writing
  • Dec 7, 1369

    Jan Hus burned at the Stake

    religion
  • Dec 7, 1415

    Battle of Agincourt

    war
  • Dec 7, 1431

    Joan of Arc burned at the stake

    religion
  • Dec 7, 1431

    Ferdinand and Isabella order all Jews to leave Spain

    religion
  • Dec 5, 1453

    hundred year war ends

    war
  • Dec 7, 1455

    Wars of the Roses begins

    war
  • Clovis becomes king

    politics
  • 16) Charles Martel defeats the Moors at Tours

    war
  • First Capetian king rules

    religion