| Year |
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Relations &
Warfare |
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Science,
Technology & Discovery |
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| 481 |
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Clovis succeeds as king of Frankish kingdom
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| 496 |
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Clovis converted to Christianity and baptized by St. Remigius
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| 502 |
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Hsiao Yen (Wu Ti) overthrows Qi Dynasty in China; founds Liang Dynasty
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| 507 |
Clovis defeats Visigoths at Vouillé; Unites all Frankish lands on the left bank of the Rhine
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| 508 |
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Clovis makes Lutetia (Paris) capital of Frankish kingdom
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| 511 |
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Clovis dies; Frankish kingdom divided among his four sons
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| 525 |
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(1) Cosmas Indicopleustes' Topographica Christiana attempts to demonstrate the truth of the biblical Creation story and posits a flat Earth
(2) Christian chronology established by Dionysius Exiguus
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| 527 |
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Justinian I becomes Byzantine emperor; Declares wife Theodora empress
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| 529 |
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Byzantine emperor Justinian I compiles all Roman laws in the Codex Vitus
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(1) Benedict of Nursia founds monastic order at Monte Casino
(2) Byzantine Emperor Justinian I closes Plato's Academy
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| 532 |
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Nike Revolt destroys large sections of Constantinople
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| 533 |
Belisarius conquers the Vandal kingdom in North Africa for the Byzantine Empire
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| 535 |
Belisarius conquers the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy for Byzantine Empire
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| 537 |
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Hagia Sophia completed and dedicated in Constantinople
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| 540 |
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(1) Benedict of Nursia writes Regula monachorum to regulate daily life in the monastary
(2) Roman statesman Cassiodorus retires and founds monastery at Viverium; Becomes major center for translation of ancient Greek texts
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| 541 |
Justinian I abandons plans to conquer Gaul and Britain after plague strikes Constantinople
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| 552 |
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Byzantine emperor Justinian I introduces silk production in Europe after smuggling silkworms out of China
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| 553 |
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Procopius' Anecdota (Secret History) of the Byzantine Empire
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| 558 |
Chlothar I temporarily reunites Clovis' Frankish kingdoms
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| 561 |
Chlothar I dies; Frankish kingdoms are redivided
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| 565 |
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Byzantine emperor Justinian I dies after 38 year reign
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| 568 |
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Alboin founds Lombard kingdom in Italy
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| 579 |
King Chosroes of Persia dies after 48 year reign; Reestablished Persian power from Red Sea to Oxus River
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| 581 |
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Yang Jian murders Zhou royalty; Proclaims himself emperor Wendi and begins Sui Dynasty in China
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| 582 |
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Cassiodorus' History of the Goths
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| 585 |
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Soga clan adopts Buddhism in Japan
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| 587 |
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First Buddhist monastery in Japan
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| 588 |
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Lombards convert to Christianity
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| 589 |
Sui emperor Wendi reunites China
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| 590 |
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Gregory I becomes first monk elected pope; Lays down principles of papal authority over secular rulers
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| 593 |
Empress Suiko becomes first Japanese ruler to gain official recognition from China
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| 594 |
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Empress Suiko of Japan converts to Buddhism
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| 600 |
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Moldboard plow introduced to Europe
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| 601 |
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The Vaghbata, a collection of Indian medical knowledge compiled
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| 603 |
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First St. Paul's Cathedral built in London
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| 604 |
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Chinese emperor Wendi murdered by Yangdi, his son; Chinese capital moved to Luoyang
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Japanese crown prince issues the Shotoku Taishi, which requires veneration of the Buddha and Buddhist laws
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| 610 |
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Muhammad begins preaching in Mecca
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| 618 |
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Li Yuan (later Gaozu) murders Chinese emperor Yangdi; Establishes Tang Dynasty
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| 620 |
Persian king Chosroes II conquers Rhodes; Persian Empire reaches extent of Darius' 6th Century BCE empire
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| 621 |
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Chinese government establishes state department for the manufacture of porcelain
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| 622 |
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Muhammad forced to flee Mecca for Medina; Becomes basis for Islamic tradition of the hijra
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| 628 |
Muslim army captures Mecca
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| 630 |
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Muhammad returns to Mecca with the Koran
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| 632 |
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Muhammad dies; Abu Bakr becomes caliph in Medina
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| 633 |
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East Anglia converted to Christianity
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| 634 |
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Abu Bakr dies; Umar becomes caliph
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| 636 |
Battle of Yarmuk; Islamic forces under Khalid ibn al-Walid conquer Syria and Palestine
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| 637 |
Islamic armies invade Mesopotamia
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| 638 |
Islamic forces capture Jerusalem
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| 639 |
Islamic armies conquer Egypt
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| 641 |
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Founding of Fostat (Cairo) in Egypt
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| 642 |
Islamic forces decisively defeat Persians at the battle of Nihawand
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| 643 |
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Construction on the Dome of the Rock begins
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| 644 |
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Caliph Umar assassinated; Uthman becomes caliph
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| 645 |
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Buddhism reaches Tibet
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| 646 |
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Japanese emperor Kotoku unites Japan and issues Taika Reform Edicts
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| 651 |
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Sassanid king Yazdegerd III assassinated; End of Sassanid Dynasty in Persia
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| 656 |
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Caliph Uthman assassinated; Ali becomes caliph
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| 659 |
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c. 659; First Shinto shrines built in Japan
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| 661 |
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Caliph Ali assassinated; Muawiyah moves capital to Damascus and founds Umayyad Dynasty
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Sunni and Shi'a branches of Islam split over succession to the Caliphate
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| 670 |
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Kallikinos invents Greek fire in Constantinople
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| 678 |
Umayyad forces forced to lift siege of Constantinople after decisive naval defeat at the battle of Syllaeum
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| 680 |
Hussein killed at battle of Karbala; Battlefield will become site for Shiite holy city
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| 690 |
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Shinto Shrine of Ise first built in its current form in Japan
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| 692 |
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Dome of the Rock is completed by Caliph Abdel-Malik
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| 695 |
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First Islamic coins minted in Damascus
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| 697 |
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Dogeships in Venice
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| 700 |
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Leading Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacán destroyed
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Dandin's The Adventures of the Ten Princes, Sanskrit poetry
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| 701 |
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Japanese law codified by emperor Momu
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Arab sailors visit Moluccas and Indonesia for the first time
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| 710 |
Islamic forces conquer Tangiers; Caliphate controls entire North African coast
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Nara becomes first permanent capital of Japan
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| 711 |
Islamic army invades Iberian Peninsula
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| 712 |
Muhammad ibn Kasim makes first Islamic conquests in India
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Ono Yasumara's Kojiki, the first written history of Japan
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| 715 |
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Charles Martel becomes Mayor of the Palace in Frankish kingdom of Austrasia
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| 717 |
Second Siege of Constantinople; Byzantines decisively defeat Umayyad navy using Greek fire
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| 718 |
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Pelayo establishes Kingdom of Asturias after the Moors defeat the Visigothic kingdom of Spain
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| 726 |
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Byzantine emperor Leo III initiates iconoclastic movement in Constantinople
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| 730 |
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(1) Pope Gregory II excommunicates Leo III for iconoclasm
(2) Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum by Bede
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| 732 |
Frankish army under Charles Martel defeats Umayyad army at the battle of Tours
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| 741 |
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Charles Martel dies; Frankish kingdom redivided
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| 742 |
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Charlemagne born
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| 750 |
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(1) Alfonso I establishes the Kingdom of Galicia in the Iberian Peninsula
(2) Abu al-Abbas as-Saffah overthrows Umayyad Caliphate and establishes Abbasid Dynasty
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| 751 |
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Pepin the Short becomes king of the Franks; Founds the Carolingian Dynasty
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| 752 |
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55 ft. statue of the Buddha, Rushanabutsu, completed in Japan
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| 754 |
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Chinese census records 26 cities with populations of at least 500,000
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| 756 |
Donation of Pepin creates Papal States and establishes temporal power of the papacy
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The Umayyad Abd ar-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordoba
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| 762 |
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Caliphate moved to Baghdad
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| 765 |
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Three-field crop rotation system introduced in Europe
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| 766 |
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York becomes English center for learning
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| 768 |
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Pepin the Short dies; Charles (Charlemagne) succeeds
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| 774 |
Charlemagne visits Rome; Absorbs Lombardy into Frankish kingdom
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| 782 |
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Execution at Verdun
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| 787 |
Danes invade England
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| 790 |
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Carolingian Renaissance begins
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| 794 |
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Heian (Kyoto) becomes permanent capital of Japan; Will remain so until 1868
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| 796 |
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Palatine Chapel built in Aix-la-Chapelle
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| 800 |
Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans
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Alcuin of York works on corrected version of the Bible and compiles Lives of the Saints
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| 801 |
Charlemagne conquers Barcelona from the Moors
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| 804 |
Charlemagne completes conquest and conversion of Saxony
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| 811 |
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Tang emperor begins issue of paper currency in China
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| 813 |
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A school of astronomy established in Baghdad
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| 814 |
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Charlemagne dies; Louis I (The Pious) succeeds
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Doge's Palace built in Venice
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| 820 |
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Islamic law school established in Medina
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| 825 |
King Egbert of Wessex conquers Kent, Sussex, and Essex; Wessex becomes dominant power in England
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| 830 |
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Einhard's Life of Charlemagne
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| 833 |
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Al-Mamun founds observatory in Baghdad
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| 836 |
Vikings sack London
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| 837 |
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Carrier pigeon services established in Arab lands
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| 840 |
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Louis the Pious dies; Civil war in Frankish kingdom between his sons
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| 841 |
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Vikings found Dublin in Ireland
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| 843 |
Treaty of Verdun permanently splits Charlemagne's empire
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Kenneth MacAlpin unites Scots and Picts, founding the medieval kingdom of Scotland
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| 845 |
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Chinese government launches persecution of Buddhists
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| 850 |
Vikings seize Kiev; Origin of Varangian empire of the Rus
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| 853 |
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China prints first book
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| 857 |
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Kingdom of Navarre established in Spain
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| 859 |
Arabs complete conquest of Sicily
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| 862 |
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Byzantine emperor Michael III sends Cyril and Methodius to convert slavs; Origin of Cyrillic alphabet
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| 871 |
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Alfred the Great succeeds in Wessex
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| 872 |
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Ahmad ibn Talun establishes first hospital in Cairo; Hospitals now common throughout Arab world
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| 874 |
Christians defeat Moors at Orbedo; Beginning of the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula
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| 877 |
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Charles II of France consolidates feudal system
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| 886 |
Alfred the Great expels the Vikings from London; Establishes the Danelaw
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| 888 |
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Charles III dies; Frankish empire collapses; Independent kingdom of Burgundy established
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| 895 |
Magyars raid Bulgaria; Settle in Central Europe
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| 900 |
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Approximate date for the establishment of the Toltec kingdom in Mexico
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| 907 |
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Zhuwen (Chu Wen) murders last Tang emperor of China; Beginning of the Period of The Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms
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| 909 |
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Said ibn Hussein establishes Fatimid caliphate in Tunis
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Abbey of Cluny founded in eastern France
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| 911 |
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Norman noble Rollo converts and pays homage to Charles III of France; Origin of the Duchy of Normandy
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| 912 |
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Abd ar-Rahman III succeeds in Umayyad Spain; Brings Islamic Spain to the peak of its power and cultural influence
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| 930 |
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Althing established in Iceland; Early representative assembly in Europe
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| 932 |
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Wood-block printing in China
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| 939 |
Ngo Quyen defeats Chinese army and establishes independent kingdom in northern Vietnam
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| 942 |
Edmund I of England conquers the Danelaw
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| 947 |
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The Khitan establish the Liao Dynasty to rule northern China and Manchuria
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| 954 |
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King Edred seizes York and unites all England
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| 955 |
Otto I of Germany defeats Magyar army at the battle of Lechfeld
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| 956 |
Oghuz Turks led by Seljuk move into Transoxiana
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| 960 |
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Zhao Kuangyin founds the Song Dynasty in China
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| 962 |
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Otto I crowned Holy Roman emperor by Pope John XII; Beginning of the Holy Roman Empire
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| 966 |
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King Mieszko of Poland converts to Catholicism
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| 969 |
Fatimids conquer Egypt and move capital to Cairo
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| 982 |
Eric the Red begins viking invasion of Iceland
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| 983 |
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Ahmad ibn Buwayh Asud ad-Dawla rises to power in Persia; Reintroduces ancient title of Shahanshah (King of Kings)
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| 984 |
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Earliest known astrolabe, a tool for navigation, in use in Persia
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| 987 |
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Hugh Capet founds Capetian royal line in France
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| 988 |
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Vladimir the Great of Kiev converts to Christianity; Foundation of Russian Orthodox Church
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| 992 |
Venice gains independence from Byzantine Empire
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| 993 |
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Pope John XV canonizes Ulric, bishop of Augsburg; First documented papal canonization
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| 1003 |
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Brian Boru becomes High King of Ireland
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Approximate date of Leif Ericson's voyages from Greenland
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| 1005 |
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| 1010 |
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Robert II proclaims the 'Peace of God' in France to curb aristocratic violence
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| 1018 |
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Council of Pavia; Pope Benedict VIII declares clerical marriage and concubinage illegal
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| 1020 |
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Floating magnetic compass invented in China
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| 1022 |
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Bogomils burned in France
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| 1028 |
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Cnut unifies England, Denmark, and Norway under one crown
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| 1031 |
Umayyad caliphate abolished in Spain; Rise of minor Moorish kingdoms
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| 1035 |
King Cnut dies; England, Denmark, and Norway redivided
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Kingdom of Aragon established in Spain
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| 1037 |
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Kingdom of Castile-Leon established in Spain
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| 1040 |
Seljuk Turks conquer territories in Persia
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| 1048 |
Seljuk Turks sack Erzurum; Maintain presence in Anatolia
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Henry III appoints Pope Clement II
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| 1050 |
Tughril Beg conquers Isfahan and establishes Seljuk capital there
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Astrolabe used in Europe
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| 1051 |
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Cathars executed in Germany
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| 1052 |
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Construction on Westminster Abby begins
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| 1054 |
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Pope Leo IX and the Patriarch of Constantinople excommunicate each other; Final step in the Great Schism between the Catholic and Orthodox churches
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| 1055 |
Seljuk Turks conquer Baghdad; Tughril Beg becomes sultan
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| 1057 |
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| 1061 |
The Norman conquest of Arab-controlled Sicily
(1061 to 1091)
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| 1065 |
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Westminster Abby consecrated
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| 1066 |
William the Conqueror defeats Harold at the battle of Hastings; Normans conquer England
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| 1071 |
Seljuk army decisively defeats Byzantine army at battle of Manzikert; Conquer parts of Anatolia and Syria
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| 1075 |
Pope Gregory VII decrees papal supremacy in Dictatus papae; Beginning of Investiture Controversy between the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor
(1075 to 1122)
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| 1078 |
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Construction on the Tower of London begins
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| 1079 |
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Peter Abelard born
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| 1080 |
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The Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the Norman conquest of England, is commissioned
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| 1085 |
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William I of England commissions the Domesday Book
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| 1087 |
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William the Conqueror of England dies; William II succeeds to English throne
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| 1090 |
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Yusuf ibn Tasfin founds Almoravid Dynasty in Granada
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| 1091 |
Roger Guiscard completes the Norman conquest of Sicily
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| 1092 |
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Sultan Malik Shah dies; Seljuk empire collapses into civil war
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| 1094 |
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Pope Urban II expels antipope Clement III from Rome
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| 1095 |
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Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade against Islamic conquests in the Middle East
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| 1099 |
Crusaders capture Jerusalem; First Crusade ends
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Godfrey of Bouillon founds Kingdom of Jerusalem from crusader conquests in Palestine
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The Order of the Knights Hospitaller chartered in Jerusalem to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land
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| 1100 |
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Baptistery in Florence built
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| 1115 |
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Peter Abelard becomes chair of theology at Notre Dame
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| 1119 |
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The Knights Templar founded in Jerusalem
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| 1122 |
Concordat of Worms ends the Investiture Controversy between the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor
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The Jürchen found the Jin (Chin) Dynasty in northern China
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| 1123 |
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The First Lateran Council condemns simony and clerical marriage in Europe
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| 1129 |
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First use of flying buttresses in construction of St. Denis
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| 1134 |
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Emperor Lothair III makes Albrecht head of the Nordmark; Origin of the House of Brandenburg
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| 1138 |
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| 1145 |
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First recorded autopsy performed in China
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Pope Eugene III proclaims Second Crusade to recapture Crusader Kingdom of Edessa
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| 1150 |
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Chinese develop rockets
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| 1152 |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou
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| 1154 |
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Henry of Anjou becomes king of England; First Plantagenet king of England and beginning of the Angevin empire
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| 1157 |
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Bank of Venice established; Venice emerging as major center of finance and trade
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| 1166 |
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At Clarendon, Henry II of England presides over major legal reforms; Origins of English common law
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| 1168 |
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Toltec Empire destroyed in Mesoamerica
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| 1169 |
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Saladin becomes vizir of Egypt
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| 1170 |
The Almohads move their capital to Seville; The Almohad Dynasty has conquered much of North African and consolidated the smaller Islamic kingdoms in Spain
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Thomas Becket murdered by nobles loyal to King Henry II of England
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| 1171 |
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Last Fatimid caliph of Egypt dies leaving Saladin as effective ruler
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| 1173 |
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Thomas Becket canonized
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| 1175 |
Saladin recognized as sultan of Egypt and Syria
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| 1179 |
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Third Lateran Council declares crusade against Albigensian heresy
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| 1180 |
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First windmill in Europe constructed in Normandy
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| 1181 |
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c. 1181-1206; Reign of Jayavarman VII in Cambodia; Establishes Khmer capital at Angkor Thom
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| 1183 |
(1) Peace of Constance confirms the autonomy of Italian cities from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa)
(2) Saladin captures Aleppo; Moves his capital to Damascus
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| 1185 |
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Minamoto Yaritomo becomes effective ruler of Japan
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| 1187 |
(1) Pope Gregory VIII calls for Third Crusade to halt Saladin's conquests in the Middle East
(2) Saladin captures Jerusalem from the European crusaders
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| 1188 |
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) leads crusader army from Germany
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| 1189 |
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Richard I assumes English throne
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| 1190 |
Emperor Frederick I drowns while crossing the Saleph River; German crusader army disintegrates
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Teutonic Knights established
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| 1191 |
Crusading army under Richard I of England captures Acre and defeats Saladin's army at Arsuf
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| 1192 |
Richard I of England and Saladin sign truce which allows Christian access to Jerusalem; Richard leaves the Holy Land
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Minamoto Yaritomo adopts the title Shogun; Creates Shogunate government which will last until 1868
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| 1193 |
Saladin dies
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| 1196 |
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Choe Chong-hon reunites Korea
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| 1199 |
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Richard I of England dies; Brother John succeeds to English throne
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| 1200 |
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Lay order of the Beguines founded in Liège
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| 1203 |
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Mongol prince Temüjin takes title of Genghis Khan
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| 1204 |
Crusaders capture and sack Constantinople; Baldwin count of Flanders crowned Latin Emperor and Byzantine territory partitioned with Venice
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| 1208 |
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Pope Innocent III declares crusade against Albigensian heresy in Languedoc
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| 1209 |
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Foundation of Cambridge University
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| 1210 |
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Foundation of the Franciscan Order
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| 1211 |
Genghis Khan conquers Kara-Khitai empire in Turkestan and invades China
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| 1212 |
Alfonso VIII of Castile and Sancho VII of Navarre decisively defeat Almohad army at battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
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Failed Children's Crusade in Europe
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| 1214 |
Philip II of France decisively defeats Emperor Otto IV at battle of Bouvines; Confirms French conquest of Normandy and other English territories
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| 1215 |
Mongols under Genghis Khan sack Beijing
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King John of England and English barons sign the Magna Carta
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| 1216 |
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Foundation of the Dominican Order
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| 1222 |
Genghis Khan conquers Khwarezmid Empire (Afghanistan)
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The Golden Bull of 1222 confirms the rights and privileges of the Hungarian nobility
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| 1225 |
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(1) Western façade of Notre Dame Cathedral completed
(2) Francis of Assisi's Canticle to Brother Sun
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| 1226 |
The Golden Bull of Rimini authorizes the Teutonic Knights to conquer and convert pagan Prussian tribes in the Baltic
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| 1227 |
Genghis Khan dies; Mongol empire divided among his sons
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| 1231 |
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Gregory IX establishes the Papal Inquisition
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| 1236 |
Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Muslim Cordoba
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| 1238 |
(1) Mohammed ibn Nasr founds Nasrid Dynasty in Granada
(2) Mongol leader Batu Khan sacks Vladimir;
Establishes the Golden Horde
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| 1239 |
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Louis IX holds the first parlement in France
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| 1241 |
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Association of Hamburg and Lübeck lays foundation for the Hanseatic League
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| 1252 |
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First gold florins minted in Florence
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| 1257 |
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First recorded meeting of the seven Electors of the Holy Roman Empire
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| 1258 |
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English barons force Henry III to agree to the Provisions of Oxford, which call for the meeting of parliament at three-year intervals
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| 1259 |
Henry III of England renounces claims to Normandy and other Angevin territories in France
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| 1260 |
Mamluks defeat Mongol army at Ain Jalut; Egypt avoids conquest
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Kublai Khan becomes Emperor of China
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Chartres Cathedral consecrated
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| 1261 |
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Michael VIII Palaeogus restores Byzantine authority in Constantinople
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| 1265 |
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Dante born
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| 1266 |
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Thomas Aquinas begins work on his Summa theologica
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| 1274 |
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(1) Rudolf I becomes first Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
(2) Edward I crowned King of England
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Thomas Aquinas dies
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| 1275 |
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Marco Polo arrives at Kublai Khan's court in China
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| 1276 |
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Ottokar of Bohemia surrenders lands to Emperor Rudolf I; Beginning of Habsburg Dynasty in Austria
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| 1277 |
Edward I of England conquers Wales
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| 1279 |
Kublai Khan completes the Mongol conquest of China
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| 1280 |
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First recorded spinning wheel in Germany
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| 1281 |
Typhoon destroys Mongol invasion fleet off the coast of Japan; Japanese call it Kamikaze (Divine Wind)
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| 1282 |
Beginning of the War of the Sicilian Vespers
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| 1284 |
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First recorded use of reading glasses in Venice
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| 1285 |
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William of St. Cloud observes the sun through a camera obscura
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| 1289 |
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The Grand Canal completed in China
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| 1290 |
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Edward I expels the Jews from England
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| 1291 |
Mamluks destroy Acre and end the existence of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
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| 1294 |
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Kublai Khan dies
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| 1295 |
France and Scotland form alliance against England; Origin of the "Auld Alliance"
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Marco Polo returns from China
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| 1296 |
Edward I of England defeats Scottish army at Dunbar; Scottish king John Balliol abdicates
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| 1297 |
William Wallace leads uprising in Scotland; Defeats English army at Stirling Bridge
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| 1298 |
Edward I of England defeats William Wallace at Falkirk
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Marco Polo's Travels to Tartary and China
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| 1302 |
(1) Papal and Neapolitan armies destroyed by malaria; Truce ends the War of the Sicilian Vespers
(2) Fleming militiamen defeat French army at Courtrai
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First recorded meeting of the French Estates-General
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Boniface VIII asserts papal supremacy over secular power in the bull, Unam sanctum
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| 1305 |
William Wallace executed in London
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| 1307 |
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Edward I of England dies in Scotland; Edward II succeeds and withdraws English forces from Scotland
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Dante's Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy)
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| 1309 |
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Pope Clement V moves the papacy to Avignon, France
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| 1314 |
Robert the Bruce defeats English army at Bannockburn; English forces withdraw from Scotland
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Knights Templars disbanded, Grand Master Molay burned
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| 1315 |
Swiss militia defeat Habsburg army at Morgarten and secure Swiss autonomy
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| 1324 |
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Ghazi Orkhan succeeds Osman I as Ottoman sultan
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First forged iron cannons made in France
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| 1325 |
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Aztecs settle in Tenochtitlán
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| 1326 |
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Edward II of England deposed by Queen Isabella and discontented barons
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| 1327 |
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Edward II of England executed; Isabella and Roger Mortimer control regency government of Edward III
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| 1328 |
Edward III recognizes Scottish independence
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(1) Charles IV of France dies, ending the Capetian Dynasty; Philip of Valois succeeds
(2) Grand Prince of Vladimir Alexander III dies; Ivan I succeeds, marking rise of Moscow as leading power in Russia
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| 1331 |
Ottoman Turks capture Nicaea, the last remaining Byzantine territory in Asia
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| 1333 |
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Bubonic plague strikes China
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| 1336 |
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Hindu rebellion against Muslim rule in India; Harihara I founds Vijayanagar Dynasty
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| 1337 |
Philip VI of France confiscates English territory in Gascony; Beginning of the Hundred Years War
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| 1338 |
(1) Edward III of England lands in Antwerp with his army
(2) Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV supports Edward III's claim to the French throne
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| 1340 |
(1) Edward III declares himself King of France
(2) Battle of Sluys
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First European manufacture of cast iron in Liège
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| 1341 |
English garrison expelled from Edinburgh, Scotland
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Petrarch crowned in Rome
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| 1342 |
Scottish troops take Roxburgh; English expelled from Scotland
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| 1346 |
English defeat French at battle of Crécy; Emergence of the English longbow
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The Black Death (bubonic plague) breaks out in Tatar army at Kaffa
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| 1347 |
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Bubonic plague first arrives in Europe
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| 1348 |
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Bubonic plague spreads to France and Spain
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| 1349 |
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The Black Death spreads to England, Scandinavia, and Germany
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| 1353 |
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Boccaccio's The Decameron
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| 1356 |
(1) Emperor Charles IV issues Golden Bull establishing a system of seven Electors in the Holy Roman Empire
(2) English longbowmen defeat French army at the Battle of Poiters; French King John II captured and held for ransom
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| 1358 |
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(1) Jacquerie peasant insurrection in France
(2) Étienne Marcel murdered in Paris
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| 1360 |
Timur begins rise to military prominence; Conquers Transoxiana
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| 1361 |
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Bubonic plague returns to Europe
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| 1363 |
John II gives Burgundy to son Philip; Burgundy will emerge as independent rival to French throne
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| 1364 |
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(1) John II dies in captivity in England and given lavish funeral; Charles V succeeds to French throne
(2) Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) becomes Aztec capital
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Papal Palace completed in Avignon, France
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| 1365 |
Charles V recognizes John de Montfort as Duke of Brittany in the Treaty of Guérande; End of the Breton War of Succession
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| 1368 |
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Zhu Yuanzhang (Chu Yuan-chang) expels Mongols from Beijing; Founds Ming Dynasty
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| 1370 |
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Hubert van Eyck born
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| 1371 |
Ottoman army under Murad I defeats Byzantine army at battle of Chernomen; Ottomans conquer most of the Balkans
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| 1377 |
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(1) End of Babylonian Captivity for Roman Catholic Church
(2) Filippo Brunelleschi, early Renaissance architect and engineer born
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| 1378 |
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(1) Ghiberti born
(2) The Great Schism & the election of Clement VII
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| 1381 |
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Wat Tyler's Rebellion
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| 1382 |
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Bible translated into English by Wycliffe
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| 1386 |
Old Swiss Confederation defeats Habsburg army at the Battle of Sempach
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Last pagan ruler in Europe, Jogalia of Lithuania, converts to Christianity; Foundation of Polish-Lithuanian dynastic union
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| 1389 |
Ottoman army under Murad I defeats Serbian army at the battle of Kosovo; Ottoman Empire conquers Serbia
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Cosimo de Medici born
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| 1390 |
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Jan Van Eyck born
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| 1396 |
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Johann Gutenberg born (circa)
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| 1397 |
Treaty of Kalmar stipulates perpetual union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden & Norway
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| 1399 |
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Henry Bolingbroke of the House of Lancaster deposes Richard II of England; Crowned Henry IV
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| 1402 |
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Canary Islands discovered
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| 1408 |
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Windmills in Holland
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| 1414 |
1414-1418; Council of Constance resolves the Western Schism of the Catholic Church
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| 1415 |
(1) Frederick VI of the House of Hohenzollern recognized as Margrave and Prince-elector of Brandenburg
(2) English army under Henry V decisively defeats French army at the Battle of Agincourt
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John Huss burned at the stake
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| 1419 |
John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy assassinated by servants of the Dauphin Charles
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First European school of navigation founded in Portugal by Prince Henry the Navigator
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| 1423 |
Venetian-Turkish Wars begin
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| 1428 |
(1) Vietnam gains independence from Ming China
(2) English army begins siege of Orleans
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| 1432 |
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Azores discovered by Gonzalo Cabral of Portugal
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| 1436 |
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Verrocchio born
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| 1438 |
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Beginnings of printing in Europe
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Charles VII and the Pragmatic Sanction
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| 1444 |
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Botticelli born
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| 1446 |
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Filippo Brunelleschi, early Renaissance architect and engineer dies
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| 1447 |
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Pope Nicholas V, the Builder Pope
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| 1450 |
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Florence becomes center of Italian Renaissance
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| 1451 |
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(1) Christopher Columbus born
(2) Amerigo Vespucci born
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| 1452 |
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(1) Leonardo da Vinci born
(2) Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
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| 1453 |
(1) Turks capture Constantinople and end the Byzantine Empire
(2) French army defeats English at Castillon; End of English presence in Aquitaine
(3) French forces enter Bordeaux; End of the Hundred Years' War
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| 1454 |
The Treaty of Lodi establishes peace and a stable political framework in Italy
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| 1455 |
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Pope gives approval to the slave trade
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| 1462 |
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Ivan III begins uniting Russia
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| 1464 |
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Cosimo de Medici dies
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| 1465 |
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Erasmus born
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| 1466 |
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Donatello dies
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| 1468 |
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Treaty of Peronne
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Johann Gutenberg dies
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| 1469 |
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Florence at its cultural height
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| 1471 |
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Albrecht Durer born
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| 1473 |
|
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Copernicus born
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| 1475 |
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Michelangelo born
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| 1477 |
Charles the Bold killed in Switzerland; Burgundian territories divided between French and Habsburgs
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| 1478 |
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Pope Sixtus IV ratifies the Spanish Inquisition
|
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| 1482 |
Battle of Alhama de Granada
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| 1483 |
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Martin Luther born
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| 1484 |
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Birth of Venus by Botticelli
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| 1485 |
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Henry Tudor defeats and kills Richard III at battle of Bosworth; Tudor crowned Henry VII
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| 1488 |
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Verrocchio dies
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| 1492 |
Spanish forces conquer final Moorish stronghold in Granada
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Lorenzo de Medici dies
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Columbus discovers America
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| 1494 |
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Savonarola's Reforms
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| 1496 |
|
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Vasco da Gama sails to India and back to Portugal
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| 1497 |
|
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The Cabots reach America
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| 1498 |
|
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(1) Vasco de Gama reaches India by sea
(2) Columbus reaches South America
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Albrecht Durer's Self Portrait
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| 1499 |
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Michelangelo's Pietà
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