Transcript Significant Events

Significant Events
11th Century
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Islam rules over Spain, Omayyad Dynasty
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Cordova the Capital
Late 11C El Cid pushes back at Omayyad Dynasty
1054- Split
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Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church soon enacts doctrines
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Priest Celibacy
Simony and Investiture
Installation of Pope (election)
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1066
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William the Conqueror defeats Harold at the Battle of Hastings
1077
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Henry IV (HRE) and Gregory VII (Pope)
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Canossa
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Cardinals
Temporal v. Spiritual Power
» Excommunication
» Interdict
1096
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First Crusade
12th Century
• 3rd Crusade
– Richard II (Lionhearted)
• Cathedral of St. Denis (Suger)
• Europe largely Christianized
• St. Francis of Assisi
– Franciscan Order Established
• Universities begin to be established
Europe
13th Century
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1204 4th Crusade ransacks Constantinople
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Venice controls Constantinople next 60+ years- further decay of Byzantine Empire
Ottomans move forward
1215
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Magna Carta (King John “Softsword”)
4th Lateran Council
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1236
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Grenada remaining Islamic but under the control of Castile, waning of Islamic Power in Spain
Dante
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Inferno, Divine Comedy
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Inquisition
Anti-Semitism
Vernacular
1290
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English Parliament Created
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Growth of Burghers
Marco Polo travels to China
14th Century
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1302 Boniface VIII and Philip IV
1309 Avignon Papacy
1315 Widespread Famine
1337 100 yr War
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1348
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1377
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Edward III claim to throne
Estates General created during War
Plague
Battle of Kosovo
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1378
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1380 circa
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Great Schism
John Wyclif
Peasant Riots
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Jacquerie
John Bull (Lollards)
Italian Rebellions
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Ottoman empire gains ground in Asia Minor
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Humanists
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Greek Scholars move West
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Giotto
Chaucer
15 Century
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1415
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Canary Islands and Azores Islands
The Medici’s rule Florence
1450 circa
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Conciliar Movement- A Single Pope (Rome) Martin V
Execution of Jan Hus
100 year War- Battle of Agincourt
Guttenberg invents Printing Press
1453
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One Hundred Year War ends
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1454
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Constantinople taken by Ottomans
1455 War of the Roses
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1485 Tudors take power (Henry VII)
1469
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Isabella (Aragon), Ferdinand (Castille) take power
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Spanish Inquisition starts (1481)
1492 Grenada defeated- Jews and Muslims ordered out
1492
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France Unified
Joan of Arc helps lead victory (executed as Heretic)
Columbus
1497
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De Gama