The middle ages

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  • 476

    The fall of the western Roman empire

    The fall of the western Roman empire
    In 476 CE, a German Barbarian called Odoacer became in control of Rome, He became king of Italy and forced Romulus Augustulus to give up his crown. Lots of historians think that this is the end of the Roman empire.
  • 800

    Charlemagne, the Emperor of Romans

    Charlemagne, the Emperor of Romans
    He embarked on a mission to unite all Germanic peoples into one kingdom, and convert his subjects to Christianity. A skilled military strategist, he spent much of his reign engaged in warfare in order to accomplish his goals. In 800, Pope Leo III (750-816) crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans.
  • 1095

    The First Crusade is decreed

    The First Crusade is decreed
    On November 27 in 1095CE, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to start a war against Muslims in order to claim back the Holy Land, and yelled “Deus vult!” or “God wills it!”
  • 1215

    Magna Carta is signed

    Magna Carta is signed
    The Magna Carta is a document created in 1215CE that limited the power of the monarch and established human rights for everyone in England. 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, and demanded that every person had to obey the law, including the king.
  • 1315

    The great famine

    The great famine
    Scientists have known for a long time that it was a strain of Phytophthora infestans (or P. infestans) that caused the widespread devastation of potato crops in Ireland and northern Europe beginning in 1315 - 1317CE leading to the Irish Potato Famine.
  • 1348

    The black death

    The black death
    The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid 1300s. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1348CE, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. People gathered on the docks were met with a horrifying surprise: Most sailors on the ships were dead, and the ones still alive were deathly ill and covered in black spots that oozed blood and pus.
  • 1378

    The Great Schism

    The Great Schism
    The Great Schism of 1378CE - 1417CE this event that celebrated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches (led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius) and the Western church (led by Pope Leo IX). The mutual excommunications by the pope and the patriarch in 1378CE became a watershed in church history. The excommunications were not lifted until 1965, when Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras.