Timeline: Western Europe S1

Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1527

Middle Ages

Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1000

Early Middle Ages

Jan 1, 732

Charles Martel halts a Muslim advance into France

Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 1, 1300

High Middle Ages

Jan 1, 1054

Great Schism

Jan 1, 1066

William the Conqueror invades England

Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1099

First Crusades

Period: Jan 1, 1140 to Jan 1, 1270

Rise of European Universities

Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1527

Late Middle Ages

Period: Jan 1, 1337 to Jan 1, 1453

Hundred Years' War between France and England

Period: Jan 1, 1347 to Jan 1, 1350

Black Death at its height

Period: Jan 1, 1375 to Jan 1, 1527

Renaissance in Italy

Jan 1, 1450

Printing press invented by J. Gutenberg

Jan 1, 1453

Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks

Jan 1, 1464

Lorenzo de Medici comes to power in Florence

Jan 1, 1486

Pico publishes "Oration"

Jan 1, 1505

Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa

We cose this because art was an important part during the Renaissance.

Period: Jan 1, 1525 to Jan 1, 1616

Reformation

Jan 1, 1532

Machiavelli's The Prince is published

Jan 1, 1536

John Calvin publishes institutes of Christian religion

This is important because books about religion were not allowed.

Jan 1, 1558

Elizabeth 1 crowned queen of England

This is imporant because she was the frist unmarried queen of England.

Jan 1, 1609

Galileo improves the telescope

This is imporatnt because it was an act aganist the church and was not noramally allowed and it was the start to secience.