Time Line
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
c.324-c.330
325
c.345-407
402
410
455
518-527
527-565
590-604
768-814
800
841
927 – 942
1000
c.995-c.1050
1050
1056
1078
1096-1291
c.1150-c.1170
c.1150
1163-1235
c.1163
1182-1226
c.1183
1198-1216
Constantine made Byzantium capital of East Roman Empire
First Council of Nicea
St. John Chrysostom; patriarch of Constantinople; liturgist of Eastern
Orthodox Church
Rome abandoned by Emperor Honorius as capital of West Roman Empire
Visigoths sacked Rome
Vandals Sacked Rome
Justin, East Roman Emperor
Justinian the Great, East Roman Emperor
Gregory the Great, pope; liturgy of Roman Catholic Church codified;
Gregorian chant established
Charlemagne ruled at Aix-la-Chapelle
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by pope
Vikings invaded northern France and colonized French territory
Odo of Cluny, abbot, first arranged tones of the scale into an orderly progression
from A to G; responsible for the earliest effective system of Western musical notation.
Leif Eriksen, Viking navigator, believed to have reached coast of
North America
Guido of Arezzo, author of musical treatises, inventor of staff notation; also invented
solmization derived from a hymn to St. John, (Ut,Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, San, Ut)
Holy Roman Empire at height; ascendancy of papal power
Westminster Abbey (Church o f Peter Apostle), in Norman style,
dedicated by Edward the Confessor in London
Tower of London begun by William the Conqueror
Crusades
University of Paris founded
Leonin active at Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris built
Oxford University founded; Cambridge University soon thereafter
St. Francis of Assisi; 1210 founded Franciscan order (confirmed by pope, 1223); 1225
wrote ‘Canticle of the Sun;’ 1228 canonized.
Perotin active at Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
Innocent III, pope; Church reached pinnacle of power
1215
c.1225-1274
c. 1300-1377
1309-1376
1314-1321
1337-1453
1348
After 1348
1378-1417
1387-1400
1421
1434
1436
1439-1442
1452-1519
c.1460-1521
1464-1469
1469-1492
1475-1564
1489
Magna Carta signed in England
Thomas Aquinas (Philosopher)
Guillaume de Machaut
Popes resided at Avignon, France
“Divine Comedy” written by Dante Alighieri
Hundred Years’ War
Black Death swept Europe killing up to 50% of the population
Boccaccio’s “Decameron”
Great Schism between two rival popes, each claiming authority
Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
Giovanni de’ Medici elected magistrate of Florence, Italy
Cosimo de’ Medici (1389-1464) began to rule Florence
Cathedral dedicated (begun 1298; dome by Brunelleschi)
Council of Florence brought nominal union of Eastern and Western Churches
Leonardo da Vinci
Josquin des Prez
Piero de’ Medici ruled after Cosimo’s death
Lorenzo de’ Medici ruled
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo apprenticed to Ghirlandaio