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Medieval Timeline

30 BC - 14 AB Augustus Caesar

1 AD Jesus Christ born

14 - 37 Tiberius Caesar

79 Jerusalem destroyed (Josephus, Wars of the Jews)

96 - 180 Five Good Emporers: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius

117 Trajan dies, Hadrian Emporer (Largest extent of Roman Empire)

161 - 180 Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)

312 - 337 Constantine
313 Edict of Milan
325 Council of Nicaea

410 Sack of Rome
411? Augustine (City of God)

476 Fall of Rome

c 500 King Arthur (Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

529 Justinian

535 Krakatoa

622 Mohammed, Hijra (Koran)

732 Charles Martel, Battle of Tours

800 Charlemagne

871 - 899 King Alfred

936 Henry the Fowler (died)

985 Eric the Red
1003 Lief Ericsson
       (Beowulf)

1054 Great Schism

1066 William the Conqueror (1066: The Year of the Conquest)

1095 First Crusade

1129 Knight Templar

(1139 Brother Cadfael, The Leper of St. Giles)

1199 King John, (Howard Pyle, Robin Hood), Third Crusade, Richard the Lionhearted
1215 Magna Charta

1272 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

1292 Marco Polo

1337 - 1453 Hundred Years War

1415 Battle of Agincourt, Henry V

1431 Joan of Arc (Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc)

1453 Fall of Constantinople

1455 Gutenberg Bible, printing press, movable type

1483 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

1492 Columbus voyage to America (also the fall of Muslim Spain)

1513 Machiavelli, The Prince