Periods of the Middle Ages: timeline and key events

The early middle ages

8th to 11th cenutries

The high middles ages

11th to 13th centuries

Late middle ages

13th to15th centuries

Germanic kingdoms and high point of the Byzantinne Empire

476 A.D.

Fall of Rome, end of Western Roman Empire, and mass migration

Birth and spread of Islam

Carolignian Empire

Feudal system

First Crusades

Romanesque art

Development of trade

Gothic art

Black Death

1453

Fall of Constantinople

​​​​​​507 A.D 732 A.D 751 A.D 800 A.D 814 A.D 843 A.D 962 A.D

The King of Franks, Clovis, defeated the Visigoths at Vouille

The Major of the Palace, Charles Martle

defeated the Muslim at Poitier and stopped their expansion in Europe

Pippin the younger became King of the Franks

Charlemagne was crowned emperor

Charlemagne died and his son Louis the Pious succeded him

Louis's son divieded up the Empire in the treaty of Verdun

Otto I established The Holy Roman Empire