Year 8 History Overview

600-1600

Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1600

Nihon Shoki

Sep 18, 720

The Nihon Shoki is Japan's second oldest extant chronicle and was submitted to the imperial court in 720. When modern Japanese scholars selected texts for inclusion in Iwanami's famous compendia Nihon Shoki was number 68.

Charlemagne (Charles The Great)

Jan 1, 740

Cause: The cause of King Charlemagne was education for the people of the community and the villages.
Effect: The effect of King Charlemagne was better education for the people of the villages and community as well as a better life.

Vikings

Jan 30, 760

Cause: The cause of the vikings was, the want to conquer Europe and its surrounds. The vikings wanted to make new technology and conquer.
Effect: The effect of the vikings was multiple raid into multiple parts of europe which resulted in the vikings conquering countries in and around Europe.

Domesday Book

Aug 5, 1036

Cause: The Cause of the domesday book was to make sure that the rights of the crown had not suffered after the norman conquest
Effect: The effect of the domesday book was a survey conducted across britain to determine who held what

Battle of Hastings

Oct 14, 1066

Cause: The main cause of the Battle of Hastings (1066) was the death of Edward the confessor and the invasion of William the Duke of Normandy.
Effect: The effect of the Battle of Hastings was many dead people and many armys from countries getting invoved and losing 'soldiers'

Minamoto Yoritomo

Jan 1, 1158

Minamoto Yoritomo was the founder of the first warrior government (bakufu) in the period of Japan under the Shoguns. He was bestowed his first court title at the age of 12 where he became administrator Minamoto Yoritomo had his own clanwhch had a lengthy battle wih the taira clan in which they were successful

The Third Crusade

Jan 1, 1192

Cause: The third crusade is dominated by the battle between two leaders: Saladin and Richard
Effect: The effect of the the third crusade was many deaths and the destruction of villages.

Mongolians Invade japan

Jan 1, 1274

In 1271, Kublai Khan defeated the Song Dynasty, and declared himself the first emperor of China's Yuan Dynasty. A grandson of Genghis Khan, he ruled over much of China plus Mongolia and Korea; meanwhile, his uncles and cousins controlled an empire that stretched from Hungary in the west to the Pacific coast of Siberia in the east. The great khans of the Mongol Empire did not tolerate impudence from their neighbors

The Battle of BannockBurn

Jun 24, 1314

In ancient Scotland on the 23rd and 24th of June 1314 Robert the Bruce and King Edward the 2nd faced off in a battle which would later become a very famous battle. The Scots (bruce) were outnumber having only a 3rd of the amount of men that King Edward had with Bruce Having eoughly 500 and Edward Having about 2000.

Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Central Asia

Jan 1, 1346

The first record of the plague which later became the black death was in central Asia in 1346. Around this same time the plague reached China and India and at this time people began to call it the blue sickness. As we know the plague would then go on to kill Millions of people and be one of the most devastating Historical Events to date.

Plague Reaches Germany

Jan 1, 1350

This is is when the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death reached Germany and infected people in the towns where it first reached in Germany

Plague reaches Poland

Jan 1, 1351

In 1351 the Black Plague reached Poland after reaching Germany in 1350. The Plague did not heavily affect Poland r at least not as much as it had to some other countries. This was some of the last occurences of the Plague before it re occured in 1360 and 1369

Plague Reaches Russia

Jan 1, 1352

In 1352 when the plague reached Russia the last victims of the plague were affected. This was the case until later when the plague reoccured in 1360 in Italy. In Russia people had heard alot of things about the Plague but did not know how severe the ffects were.

Acamapichtli

Jan 1, 1376

Acamapichtli was the first Aztec Ruler when the aztecs named their first Ruler in 1376. This was almost 50 years after the first Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325 Acamapichtli was ruler from 1376-1396 until his son Hutzilihuiti replaced him after he passed away.

Leonarda Da Vinci

Jan 1, 1452

Leonardo Da Vinci is a world famous painter and has many famous artworks and is most famous for his Painting of Lisa del Giocondo which he later dubbed the 'Mona Lisa'. Another famous art peice of Leonardo Da Vincis is the 'Vitruvian Mam'

Ottoman Empire

Jan 1, 1492

The ottoman empire which is now known as either the Empire of Turkey or Simply Turkey is the empire of land which was taken over/discovered by the Ottomans between 1299 and 1492. At one point the Ottoman empire was owned by The islams and various islamic empires. It was later attained by the Bzantine Empire and then owned by various other Empires.

Mona Lisa

Jan 1, 1503

The Mona Lisa is the world most well known Painting painted by the infamous Leonardo Da Vinci. This Painting was painted between 1503 and 1519 It is currently in Musee de Louvre (Louvre Museum) in Paris, France

Battle of Nagashino

Jan 1, 1575

Cause: Oda Nobunaga was assassinated by a general of his own before he gained power fully. He was the first Daimyo to claim that he was fighting to unify the whole country under just one military ruler! He chased the last Ashikaga Shout til he left Kyoto and was most likely going to gain power before he was betrayed.
Effect: The battle of Nagashino tore apart rulers and citizens. It put Oda in the position to exclude the Shogun and take Kyoto. It also saw the end of one kind

Battle of Sekigahara

Oct 21, 1600

Cause: Ieyasu led an army of samurai at an army owned by mitsunari both armies were of size of around 80,000 samurai. Effect: The two armies fought about 100kms out of Kyoto at Sekigahara. Many samurai died and Ieyasu came out victorious over Mitsunari.