- detailed timeline
- highlights (and related books, mostly children's)
- 5th century (EARLY MIDDLE AGES)
- St. Patrick (PATRICK, SAINT OF IRELAND by Tomie de Paola)
- Visigoths, Vandals, Attila the Hun
- 476 end of Western Roman Empire
- Clovis, King of Franks
- 6th century
- St. Benedict (RULE OF ST. BENEDICT)
- Justinian I (Eastern Roman Empire)
- Byzantines
- Bubonic plague in Constantinople
- St. Columba
- birth of Mohammed
- Saxons advance
- Augustine of Canterbury; Pope Gregory the Great
- 7th century
- Byzantines defeat Persians
- rise of Islam
- Synod of Whitby (re dating of Easter)
- 8th century
- Bede's history of England
- 732 Battle of Tours
- Carolingian dynasty
- 768 Charlemagne's reign begins (SON OF CHARLEMAGNE)
- 793 Sack of Lindisfarne (Vikings)
- 9th Century
- 800 Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emporer
- 843 Treaty of Verdun (Charlemagne's grandsons divide empire)
- Kenneth McAlpin king of Picts & Scots
- Vikings in Russia & England
- 871 King Alfred the Great's reign begins
- Norsemen settle in Iceland
- 897 death of Alfred
- 10th century
- 911 Rollo / Normandy
- 962 Otto the Great
- 11th century (HIGH MIDDLE AGES)
- Malcolm/Scots defeats Knut/Danes
- Lief Erikson
- Edward the Confessor (House of Wessex)
- 1054 East/West Schism
- 1066 William the Conqueror, Battle of Hastings (house of Normandy)
- 1099 First Crusade
- 12th century
- Henry I
- 1st & 2nd Lateran Councils
- 1147-49 2nd Crusade
- 1171 Henry II / English occupation of Ireland (House of Plantagenet)
- 1174 William I of Scotland accepts feudal lordship of English crown
- Shonin Buddhism
- 3rd Lateran Council
- Barbarossa
- 1188 Richard I (Lionheart)
- 1189-92 3rd Crusade
- 1199 King John
- 13th century
- Sack of Constantinople (4th Crusade)
- Ghengis Khan / Mongol Empire
- Christians fight Moors in Spain
- 1215 Magna Carta
- 4th Lateran Council
- Henry III
- Founding of Dominican & Franciscan orders
- Thomas Aquinas
- Marco Polo
- Edward I (Longshanks)
- William Wallace (1st War of Scottish Independence)
- 14th century (LATE MIDDLE AGES)
- Papacy moves to Avignon
- Dante's DIVINE COMEDY
- 1314 Robert the Bruce wins @ Battle of Bannockburn
- 1328 Scottish victory in War of Independence
- 1337 Hundred Years War begins
- 1347 Black Death
- 1377-1399 Richard II
- 1378 Western Schism/papacy moves back to Rome
- 1380 Chaucer
- Russians defeat Mongols
- Peasants' Revolt
- Last Crusade
- 1399 Henry IV Bolingbroke (House of Lancaster)
- 15th century
- 1415 Henry V defeats French at Agincourt
- 1422 Henry VI
- 1429 Joan of Arc / Orleans
- rise of Medici family
- Ottoman Turks take Constantinople
- 1461 Edward IV (House of York)
- 1470 Henry VI (Lancaster)
- 1471 Edward IV (York)
- 1483 Richard III crowned
- 1485 Richard III dies at Bosworth
- 1485 Henry VII (House of Tudor)
- 1492 Columbus reaches West Indies
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