9000 BC 8000 BC 7000 BC 6000 BC 5000 BC 4000 BC 3000 BC 2000 BC 1000 BC 0 100 AD 1st c. 200 AD 2nd c. 300 AD 3rd c. 400 AD 4th c. 500 AD 5th c. 600 AD 6th c. 700 AD 7th c. 800 AD 8th c. 900 AD 9th c. 1000 AD 10th c. 1100 AD 11th c. 1200 AD 12th c. 1300 AD 13th c. 1400 AD 14th c. 1500 AD 15th c. 1600 AD 16th c. 1700 AD 17th c. 1800 AD 18th c. 1900 AD 19th c. 2000 AD 20th c. 2100 AD 21st c. 22st c. 523-524 AD Boethius writes The Consolation of Philosophy ************************* 525 AD The Anno Domini calendar is invented ************************* 529-534 AD Code of Justinian Issued ************************* 541-542 AD Plague of Justinian ************************* 563 AD St. Columba Founds Iona ************************ 590 AD Gregory the Great Becomes Pope ************************ 618 AD Tang Dynasty Begins ************************ 622 AD Hegira ************************ 651 AD Islamic Conquest of Persia ************************ 717-718 AD Siege of Constantinople ************************ 747-750 AD Abbasid Revolution ************************ 793 AD Vikings Raid Lindisfarne ************************ 800 AD Charlemagne Crowned Emperor ****************************** 843 AD Treaty of Verdun ************************ 862 AD Rurik Dynasty in Russia ************************ 910 AD Cluny Abbey Founded ************************ 911 AD Foundation of Normandy ************************ 919 AD First Use of Gunpowder ************************ 969 AD Foundation of Cairo ************************ 1025 AD Avicenna Writes the Canon of Medicine ************************ 1040 AD Invention of Movable Type ************************ 1054 AD Great Schism ************************ 1066 AD Norman Conquest of England ************************ 1077 AD Walk to Canossa ************************ 1095 AD The First Crusade Launched ************************ 1098 AD Cistercians Founded ************************ 1135 AD Gothic Buildings Emerge ************************ 1170 AD Maimonides Writes Mishneh Torah ************************ 1206 AD Chinggis Khan Becomes Ruler of the Mongols ************************ 1215 AD Fourth Lateran Council + Magna Carta ************************ 1258 AD Siege of Baghdad ************************ 1265 AD Thomas Aquinas Begins His Summa Theologiae ************************ 1291 AD Siege of Acre ************************ 1315 AD Great Famine ************************ 1320 AD Dante Alighieri Completes the Divine Comedy ************************ 1324 AD Pilgrimage to Mecca by Mansa Musa ************************ 1337 AD Beginning of the Hundred Years’ War ************************ 1347 AD Black Death ************************ 1378 AD Western Schism begins ************************ 1397 AD Kalmar Union established ************************ 1401 AD Competition for the Florence Baptistery ************************ 1439 AD Gutenberg invents the printing press ************************ 1453 AD Siege of Constantinople ************************ 1469 AD Marriage between Ferdinand and Isabella ************************ 1492 AD Columbus sails to the Americas