Top Ten Events of the Middle Ages By Gnavarro Darway 732 BCE Charles the Hammer and the Battle of Tours 476 BCE The Fall of Western Roman Empire 800 Charlemagne, the Emperor of Romans 843 Treaty of Verdun 962 The Ottonain Holy Roman Empire of Germany 1215 Declaration of Magna Carta 1315 The Great Famine 1337 The Hundred Years’ War 1347 The Black Death 1378 The Great Schism