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523-524 AD
Boethius writes
The Consolation of Philosophy
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525 AD
The Anno Domini calendar
is invented
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529-534 AD
Code of Justinian Issued
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541-542 AD
Plague of Justinian
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563 AD
St. Columba Founds Iona
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590 AD
Gregory the Great
Becomes Pope
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618 AD
Tang Dynasty
Begins
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622 AD
Hegira
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651 AD
Islamic
Conquest
of Persia
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717-718 AD
Siege of
Constantinople
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747-750 AD
Abbasid
Revolution
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793 AD
Vikings Raid
Lindisfarne
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800 AD
Charlemagne
Crowned Emperor
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843 AD
Treaty of Verdun
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862 AD
Rurik Dynasty
in Russia
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910 AD
Cluny Abbey
Founded
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911 AD
Foundation of Normandy
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919 AD
First Use of Gunpowder
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969 AD
Foundation of Cairo
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1025 AD
Avicenna
Writes the
Canon of
Medicine
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1040 AD
Invention of
Movable Type
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1054 AD
Great Schism
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1066 AD
Norman
Conquest of
England
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1077 AD
Walk to Canossa
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1095 AD
The First Crusade
Launched
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1098 AD
Cistercians Founded
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1135 AD
Gothic Buildings
Emerge
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1170 AD
Maimonides
Writes
Mishneh
Torah
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1206 AD
Chinggis Khan Becomes
Ruler of the Mongols
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1215 AD
Fourth
Lateran Council +
Magna Carta
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1258 AD
Siege of
Baghdad
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1265 AD
Thomas Aquinas
Begins His Summa
Theologiae
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1291 AD
Siege of
Acre
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1315 AD
Great
Famine
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1320 AD
Dante Alighieri
Completes the
Divine Comedy
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1324 AD
Pilgrimage
to Mecca by
Mansa Musa
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1337 AD
Beginning of the
Hundred Years’ War
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1347 AD
Black Death
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1378 AD
Western Schism begins
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1397 AD
Kalmar Union established
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1401 AD
Competition for the
Florence Baptistery
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1439 AD
Gutenberg invents the
printing press
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1453 AD
Siege of Constantinople
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1469 AD
Marriage between
Ferdinand and Isabella
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1492 AD
Columbus sails to the Americas