The Middle Ages

The Great Famine

11,317 BCE

By 1852 the famine had largely come to an end other than in a few isolated areas.

Magna Carta is signed

1215 BCE

signed on 15 June by King John of England in Runnymede, Surrey, Magna Carta was meant as a peace treaty between King John and his subjects

Charlemagne, the Emperor of Romans

800 BCE

Charlemagne or Charles the Great, numbered Charles I, was King of the Franks from 768

: The Fall of Western Roman Empire

476 BCE

in 476, the Germanic leader Odoacer staged a revolt and deposed the Emperor Romulus Augustulus. From then on, no Roman emperor would not rule again from a post in Italy.

The First Crusade is decreed

1095

Pope Urban II orders first Crusade. On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages