Magna Carta
Francis of Assisi
The Dominicans
Albigensian Heretics
Holy Roman Empire
Mongol Incursions
Ghengis Khan dies in 1227
Alexander Nevsky's Russia
Seventh Crusade
English Gothic
Unversities come of age
St. Thomas Aquinas finds faith to be rational and reason divine.
Roger Bacon Medieval Science
Germany after Frederik II
Fighting in the East
Marco Polo's Journey
Kublai Khan
Venice and Genoa compete for trade and territory
Papacy exiled to Avignon
Swiss confederation
Frnace loses Sicily
Florence: Art, ploitics, finance
Dante's "Divine Comedy" 1304-21
Scottland
The Hundred Year's War
Battle of Potiers
The Jacqueries
Revolt in Rome
The Moorish kingdom of Granada
The Hanseatic League
Casimir III of Poland
Bocchacchio's Decameron
The Plaque: 1348-1351; 1/3 of Europes population died.
Chaucer's "Centerbury Tales"
Petrarch
Spanish Civil War
Wycliff and Church reform
Peasant's Revolt in England in 1381
Portugese independence in 1385
Joan of Arc
Cosimo de'Medici finances armies and artists to make Florence great.
The Flemish school: Hubert van Eyck
The Orthodox Church
Naples and Sicily united.
The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 by the Turks (Sultan Mehmet II)
Greek Scholarship revived.
Wars of the Roses
The art of Printing
Hapsburg Eempire
Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.
Geographical knowledge enlarged
Machiavelli "The Prince" in 1513
Leonardo da Vinci
Revival of classical scholarship
Papacy defeats France
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel in 1508
Renaissance
Gutenberg perfects movable type in 1450
Aldus Mannci printed first pocket books in 1494
Luthe published German Bible in 1534
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Luther and the Reformation
Turkish Expansion
The Conquest of Mexico
The death of the Aztec leader, Montezuma
Henry VIII broke with Rome
Reformation reached Scandinavia
Calvin at Geneva
Sir Thomas More
English Reformation
Tyndale's New Testament
Advances in Sciences
Copernicus
Massacre of St. Bartholomew
Mogul Empire Akbar in India (present Afghanistan)
Gregorian Calendar
Elizabeth I of England
Invincible Armada