Important Dates to Memorize for Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

Here are some dates to start memorizing. We'll have games and pop quizes with Kudos for those who know these dates. This is just the first half covering most of the Dark and Middle Ages. The second half will be posted next month with dates of the Explorers, Eurpoean Renaissance, and American Indians of that time.

Besides just knowing the dates, make sure you know the history and circumstances about the person/event and could talk educatedly about them. If you've been keeping up your timeline, this should be a breeze :) If not, don't despair. You can start right now using the pages of pictures that I gave out at our first class and a history encyclopedia to help you get to know these dates/events/people from history. If something is interesting to you - follow your curiosity to the library or good scholarly sites on the interned and learn more about it. That's really the point anyway!

King Arthur 465-542 AD
Dark Ages 476-1000 AD
Justinian and Theodora around 530 AD
Middle Ages 476-1435 AD
Mohammed 570-632 AD
Byzantine Empire begins 330 AD, collapses 1435
Sui Dynasty 589-618 AD
Fall of Western Roman Empire 476 AD
Augustine of Canterbury died 604 AD
T'ang Dynasty 618-907 AD
Arab-Muslim sweep 633-732 AD
Epic of Beowulf 700 AD
The Feudal System begins 8th c AD
Charlemagne 742-814 AD
Viking Invasions 793-1020 AD
Alfred the Great 849-899 AD
The Maori 900 AD
The Great Zimbabwe 900-1100 AD
Vladimir of Kiev 956-1015 AD
Battle of Hastings 1066 AD
Leif Eriksson 1000 AD
Eleanor of Aquitaine 1122-1204 AD
Robin Hood 12th / 13th c. AD
Richard I - 1157-1199 AD
Samurai Warriors 1192-1868
Genghis Khan 1162-1227
the Crusades 11th, 12, and 13th Centuries AD
Shoguns of Japan 1192-1867
Magna Carta 1215 AD
Roger Bacon 1214-1292
Louis IX 1214-1270 AD
Kublai Khan 1215-1294 AD
The Inca Civilization 1220 AD
The Inquisition 1227-1834 AD
Mongol Invasions 13th century AD
Marco Polo 1254-1324 AD
Robert I (theBruce) 1274-1329 AD
Hundred Years War 1337-1453 AD
The Black Death 14th century AD
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400 AD
Ottoman Empire 14th-20th centuries AD
Ming Dynasty 1368-1644 AD
Joan of Arc 1412-1431 AD
War of the Roses 1455-1487 AD