World History: Church Reform and the Crusades

  • Period: 500 to Nov 7, 1000

    Dark Ages

  • Period: 500 to Nov 7, 1492

    Chruch Reform and the Crusade

  • Nov 8, 1054

    Pope wanted to reclaim Palestine and reunite Christendom, which had split into Eastern and Western branches

  • Nov 8, 1093

    Byzantine emperpor Alexius Comenus sent appeal to Robert, Count of Flanders

  • Nov 8, 1097

    Three armies of knights and people of all classes had gathered outside Constantinople

  • Jul 5, 1099

    The Crusades captured the city

  • Nov 8, 1100

    New type of architecture called "Gothic"

  • Nov 8, 1144

    Edessa was reconquered by the Turks

  • Nov 8, 1147

    Hildegard of Bingen founded a Benedictine covent

  • Period: Nov 8, 1170 to Nov 8, 1270

    Nearly 500 Gothic churches were bulit

  • Nov 8, 1200

    Fout more Cursades to freethe holy land were also unsuccessful

  • Nov 8, 1204

    The Fourth Crusade to capture Jerusalem failed

  • Nov 8, 1212

    Clare and Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan order for women

  • Nov 8, 1212

    The Children's Crusade took place

  • Nov 8, 1400

    The Muslims held only a tiny kingdom of Granada

  • Nov 8, 1492

    Granada finally fell to the Christian army of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Spanish monarchs

  • Nov 13, 1492

    The Monarchs expelled all practicing Jews and Muslims from Spain

  • Monastery founded at Cluny in Frace

  • Period: to Nov 8, 1100

    Churches were built in the Romanesque style