1301 AD to 1490 AD

 1301 Ad to 1490 AD: The Black Death, feudal system, Irish, solar minimum, the Little Ice Age, and more if you think you can handle it. Including: Ireland, Mago, comets, Carthage, China, Europe, Italy, Mexico, and North America.

1303 AD to 1373 AD: About this time Saint Bridget of Sweden lived. She married at 14 to a Swedish prince. She and her husband raised 8 children on their estate, one of whom became Saint Catherine of Sweden. St. Bridget founded a monastery which became the intellectual center of sweden.

1306 AD: Oude Kerk was consecrated at this time. It may be the oldest building in Amsterdam.

1315 AD to 1317 AD: The Great Famine in Europe.

~ After the Battle of Bannockburn, Edward Bruce of Scotland invaded Ireland, but failed in his attempt to overthrow Norman Rule.

  

1318 AD: Edward Bruce killed by the English, near Dunlalk, after failing to become the Ard Ri, so long sought by the Irish.

1321 AD: Dante wrote the Divine Comedy.

1325 AD, Mexico: Foundation of Tenochtitlan by Aztecs(approximate).

1330 AD to 1480 AD, US: Flooding and lake in the area of Salton Sea of southern California.

1336 AD to 1405 AD: Life of Timur Shah, Tamerlane, Timur the Lame, Timur Shaw, Mongol conqueror. He began conquest of Asia in 1336. Marlow wrote Tamburlain in blank verse in 1587. Nicolas Rowe's tragedy played in 1715. Tamerlane has been called prince Timur and a Tartar conqueror.

1337 AD to 1453 AD: Hundred Year's war between France and England.

Ca 1340 AD to 1400 AD: Geoffrey Chaucer life span. Chaucer was born the son of a London brewer and wine merchant. Contemporary wit The Vision of Piers Plowman. He wrote the Canterbury Tales when he was in his late 40s.

1346 AD to 1353 AD: The Black Death killed 25,000,000 Europeans and 23,000,000 Asians, it has been estimated.

1347 AD to 1351 AD The Black Death devastated Europe.

~ 1380 AD: Life of St Catherine. Born into a wealthy family in Siena, Italy. Church centered in Avignon. She became ambassador of Pope gregory XI.  

1350 AD: The Black Death on much of the Earth, Black Death killed 1/4 of the population of Europe. Bodies rotted on the ground. It was an episode of the bubonic plague which may have begun in China. It killed perhaps 25,000,000 persons or half of the people in Europe at the time.

~ England and France called a truce.

~ The British feudal system collapsed.

~ USA: Abandonment of the Mesa Verde region of Colorado.

1361 AD: In the Battle of Visby, Danes with the help of German mercenaries, attacked the people pf the Swedish island of Gottland.

~   Ireland: An English edict bans pure-blooded from becoming mayors, bailiffs, officers of the king, or clergymen, serving the English.

1362 AD, Iceland: Volcanic eruption of Orefajokull. 

 

 

 1366 AD: Ireland: Statutes of Kilkenny forbade Irish/English marriages and preventing English to use Irish language, custom, or law.

1368 AD, China: The Ming dynasty began.

 1378 Ad: Beginnings or the Spanish Inquisition. It lasts to 1834!

1378 AD to 1417 AD: The Great Schism of the Church.

~ England: Thomas More, English statesman and humanist was born. He died in 1535. More was born the son of a judge in London, studied the classics at Oxford, became a lawyer, and did pro bono work. King Henry VII invited him to serve at court and appointed him Chancellor of England. There is more to the story.

1381 AD, England: Peasant revolt.

1386 AD, England: Chaucer began writing the Canterbury Tales.

1394 AD, Ireland: In October of this year, King Richard II, landed in Waterford, and marched up to Dublin. 

1396 AD, Italy: Manuel Chrysolores opened Greek classes. Beginning of Greek revival there.(?)

1,400 AD to 1800 AD: I guess that cooling was notable and noted beginning by about 1,400 and was almost forgotten by 1,800. 

1,400 AD to 1800 AD: I guess that cooling of climate was notable and noted beginning by about 1,400 and was almost forgotten by 1,800.

~ to 1510 AD: Sporer Minimum of sunspot activity.

~ to 1468 AD: Lifespan of Johannes Guttenberg, inventor of moveable type printing.

1406AD to 1421 AD, China: Building of the Forbidden City.

1412 AD to 1431 AD: Life of Saint Joan of Arc.

1414 AD: The Medici of Florence become bankers to the Papacy.

1418 AD: to 1460 AD: Portuguese explore the Coast of Africa.

1420 AD, USA: Large movement of the southern end of the San Andres fault in southern California.

1429 AD: Joan of Arc, in command of French forces raises the siege of Orleans.

1438 AD, South America: Incas establish empire in Peru.

 1440 AD to 1920 AD: The Little Ice Age.

~ to 1514 AD: Hartman Schedel. He wrote the Nuremberg Chronicle in 1493. It was an illustrated world history from the creation to 1492. It was published in Latin and German.

~ to 1469 AD: Reign of Montezuma I, Aztec emperor. 

1450 AD  to 1550 Ad: Solar: Sporer Minimum.

1,450 AD to 1850 AD: NASA defines the cold period during this time as the Little Ice Age.

~ First Papal indulgence for the dead are granted. Good works can buy remissions of punishment for the dead in purgatory.

1452 AD to 1518 AD: Life of Leonardo da Vinci.

1456 AD: Italy: An earthquake left 60,000 dead!

1457 AD: Comet, Blak...

1466 AD: Peace of Thorn. Poland gained gained a large area of Prussia from the Teutonic Knights.

~ to 1536 AD: Erasmus of Rotterdam was a dutch scholar regarded a leader of learning in Renascences northern Europe.

1469 AD, Spain: Unification of spain follows the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella de Castile.

1471 AD to 1501 AD, Morocco: Mohammed ech Cheik(?) is ruler.

1476 AD: Turks conquered Wallachia. Later Wallachia and Moldavia united to become Romania.

1478 AD: Beginnings of the Spanish Inquisition. It lasts to 1834.

~ England: Thomas Moore, English statesman and humanist was born and later died in 1535.  Moore was born the son of a judge in London, studied the classics at Oxford, became a lawyer, and did pro bono work. King Henry VIII invited him to serve at court and appointed him Chancellor of England.

1478 AD: Spanish Inquisition was established.

~ to 1834 AD: Duration of Spanish Inquisition.

~ to 1535 AD, England: Life of St. Thomas More. Born the son of a judge in London. Studied classics ar Oxford. Became a lawyer. Did pro bono work. Xing Henry VIII invited him to serve in court. Appointed Chancellor of England.

1479 AD: Copenhagen University founded.

~ to 1553 AD: Was the lifespan of Francisco de Montejo who had significant dealings with the Maya of Yucatan. He may have met Diego de Landa

1479 AD, Denmark: Copenhagen University founded.

~ to 1553 AD: The lifespan of Francisco de Montejo who had significant dealings with the Maya of Yucatan, Mexico. He may have met Diego de Landa who also had dealings with the Maya.

1480 AD: Faust; George Faust, the German magician was born this year. He became the prototype for the Faust legend. 

1483 AD to 1520 AD: Raphael the painter lived.

1489 AD The symbols +, plus, and -,minus, came into use.

1491 AD: to 1556 AD: Life of Saint Ignatius Loyola.

1492 AD to 1506 AD: Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the "Holy Land"

~ Intensification of the Spanish Inquisition.

~ Johann Reuchlin, German humanist, began to study Hebrew.

1493 AD, Germany: The first Bundschuh, peasants' revolt, in Alsace and southwest Germany

~ Nuremberg Chronicle.

1494 AD: Henry the VII of England sends Edward Poynings to end support for Perkins Warbeck. Poynings Laws make Ireland dependent on England. 

Treaty of Tordesillas.

1495 AD: Sir William Stanley, Lord Chamberlain of Henry the VII, executed for complicity in Warbeck's conspiracy. 

~ The Imperial Diet open at Worms, proclaims Perpetual Peace, sets up an Imperial Chamber and Court of appeal, imposes common penny as general tax.

1496 AD: Line of "the Pale" at Clongowes. This was a small enclave around Dublin, which became the area of English rule.

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1112 AD to 1301 AD

  1112 AD to 1301 AD: history timeline of happenings and doings during these years like volcanic eruptions, Normans,

 

1119 AD: Hugues(?) de Payens founded the Order of the Knights Templar in Jerusalem. 

1127 AD to 1278 AD, China:  South Song  dynasty.

1128 AD to 1143 AD: Alfonso Henriques,count of Portugal, makes Portugal independent of Spain and becomes king.

1138 AD to 1193 AD: Reign of Saladin ruler of Egypt and Syria.

1143 AD to 1180 AD: Manuel Comnenus, the greatest of the Comneni, continues the Byzantine revival. Constantinople was the acknowledged capital of the world and center of culture. 

1145 AD: Almohads of Morocco conquered Spain.

1148 AD to 1269 AD: Almohads, a Berber dynasty from the High Atlas, ruled much of North Africa and part of Spain.

 
1150 AD to 1950 AD, Ireland: Troubles and hard times continue in Ireland. I think the starred shortly after 900 AD and didn't end until about 2000 AD

~ USA: Puebloan people left the Virgin River valley area and probably moved southeastward.

~ Troubadours flourished in the south of France.

1151 AD, China: Explosives were used in warfare.

1154 AD: England: Henry II becomes king of England

1155 AD to 1294 AD: The Pomerania dynasty of the Samoborides.

 
 1155 AD to 1294 AD: Was the duration of the Pomeranian dynasty of the Samborides. The Samoborides and the Griffins held neighboring duchies. The Samborides and perhaps the Griffins were supported by the Holy Roman Empire.Sobieslaw (Subislay) probably began the dynasty and held the duchy as the duke of Herzog from 1155 to 1187. The house of Sobieslaw was important in the Baltic area and might be called Prussians. Power passed to Wartislaw (Wratislay) around 12230 and to Denmark in 1330 and to Greater Poland later.

1156 AD, Ireland: Turloc More O'Connor, a king of  Connacht, who had become High King in 1119 and who was the greatest of Brian's successors --died.

~ Ireland: Arrival of Normans at Baginbun, Co. Wexford.

1158 AD, USA: In what is now southern California, the partial infilling of ancient Lake Cahuilla brought it to sea level. The Salton Sea is a remnant of the ancient lake.

1159 AD? to 1252 AD, Spain: Life of St. Ferdinand born near Salamanca to Alfonso 9th of Leon and Berengaria of Castile. At 18 Ferdinand became king of Castile. In 1219 he married Beatrice of Swabia and had ten children. Later he married Joan of Pontian (?) and had 3 more.

1161 AD, China: At close to this date Explosives were used at the battle of Ts' ai shih.

~ to 1216 AD: Lifespan of Pope Innocent III.

1162 AD to 1227 AD: Approximate lifespan of the mongol leader Genghis Khan.
 

1166 AD to 1175 AD AD: Reign of Rory O'Connor. Last native King of Ireland.

1167 AD to 1169 AD: 800 year struggle between English and Irish began.
 
1169 AD: Dermot MacMurrough, exiled king of Leinster, invites help from "Strongbow."
 
1170 AD: Arrival in Ireland of Richard de Clare. known as Strongbow.
~ to 1970 AD, Ireland: Major political culture began at this time. There had been troubles for about 200 years before this time, but none so focused and purposeful. the English honed some horrible colonial skills during this time and practiced them to the end.

~ Ireland: This year could be called the beginning of Ireland being dominated by foreigners.
 
1171 AD: Strongbow becomes king of Leinster. England begins involvement in Ireland's affairs. Arrival of Henry II.
1171 AD: Strongbow becomes king of Leinster. England begins involvement in Ireland's affairs. Arrival of Henry II.

~ England: Henry II annexes Ireland.  

1172: England: King Henry II is declared Feudal Lord of Ireland by the Pope.

1174 AD: Conchobar of Connacht: The battle of Durlus was won by Ua Brian and by Conchobar Maenmhaighi upon the people of the son of the Empress, (the king of the Saxons). Conchobar Maenmaige is mentioned in the Annals of Ulster like this: "The battle of Durlus (gained) by Domnal Ua Brian and by Conchubur Maenmgaighi upon the people of the Empress

1182 AD to 1226 AD: Life of St. Francis of Assisi.

1185 AD to 1231 AD: Life of St. Anthony.

~ Japan: Kamakura Period flourishes.

1186 AD to 1189 AD: Ireland: During about this time Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair 
 
1186 AD to 1189 AD: Ireland: During about this time Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair was king of  Connacht. He was the son of the High King of Ireland, Ruaidri mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair. He was a military commander and resisted Norman invasion.

1187 AD: Muslims capture Jerusalem.

1189 AD to 1229 AD: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Crusades.

 
 
 1190 AD to 1202 AD: Ireland: Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobair term of reign as King of Connacht with opposition. Killed in 1202, survived by so Melaghlin, who was killed ten years later. Tough times here and most of Europe. Preceded as king by Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair and followed by Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair.

1193 AD to 1253 AD, Italy: Life of St. Clare who was born of a wealthy patrician family in Assisi. At 18 Francis(?) placed her with the Benedictine nuns at a convent near Bastia.
 

 
1200 AD: Native American Indians of the Southeast Cult were strongly in evidence, especially in the lower Mississippi valley area. A post Mound Builder culture, the Southeastern Cult in existence.

~ Leprosy outbreak in Europe.

~ Moslem invaders supplanted Hindu and Buddhist dynasties in Bengal. Later Bengal became Bangladesh.

~ Approximate peek of sunspot activity of the Medieval Maximum.

~ USA: At about this time in the Four Corners region of the southwest the land and people were hit by a combination of drought and cold.

~ Genghis Khan was supreme from the Pacific ocean to the Ural mountains.
 
1202 AD to 1224 AD: Ireland: Cathal O'Connor (Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair) Was king of Connacht. He dealt with Norman invaders (later day viking). He founded Ballintubber Abbey in 1215. Ads king he was preceded by Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobhair. and succeeded by Aedh mc Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair. This dating marks the reign of king Cathal  O'Connor a Christian. There was a Danish pagan king at this time. 

1204 AD: Genghis Khan summed as many Tartars as he could to a convocation west of the Gobi and north of the Himalayas and had his warriors kill any Tartar who stood higher than a wagon hub.

1206 AD: Genghis Khan became leader of the Mongols.

 
1213 AD to 1288 AD, Syria, Egypt: Ibn al Nafis Arab polymath whose works included medicine, surgery, Physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and Philosophy.

1214 AD to 1294 AD: Life of Kublai Khan, founder of the Mongol Dynasty.

~ to 1294 AD: Life of Roger Bacon, English mathematician.

1215 AD: King John of England seals the Magna Carta, first limitation of royal power in Europe? Magna Carta signed in England.

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1220 AD: The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. 

1222 AD: Snorri Sturluson writes Icelandic epic Prose Edda.

1223 AD: First Tartar invasion of Russia.

1224 AD to 1228 AD Ireland: Aedh mac Cathal Crobhdearg (an Englishman?) ruled as king of Connacht. 

1225 AD to 1274 AD: Life of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Surprisingly short.

~ Hungary: Teutonic Knights expelled.

1226 AD Ireland: A rebellion was raised on Connacht by sons of Ruaidri O'Conchobair and Aed O'Neil to wrest the kingship of the province from  Aed mac Carhail Crobdeirg. This was done at the instance of Donn Oc MacAirechtaig, royal chieftain of Sil Murray, who wished to revenge himself for  the confiscation of his land and patrimony; and when he revolted the whole of Connacht revolted.

1227 AD: ~ The death of Genghis Kahn. 

~ The Tatars were probably the most formidable fighting force in the world at this time. They formed a truly great light cavalry.

~ Someone begins to build Toledo Cathedral. I wonder who it/they can be.

1228 AD to 1233 AD, Ireland: Connacht was ruled by King Aedh mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair. Ireland had been weakened and disorganized by about two centuries of viking raids and was now assaulted by the English. Two sons of the king fought a sort of civil war which decimated Connacht. Richard son of William Burke arrived from England, bringing with him his appointment as Justiciar by the King; and a great assembly was convened by the Galls of Ireland and the Gaels, including the kings and chieftains of Ireland, about the two sons of Ruaidri. Unfortunately the decisions there led to ongoing civil war.

King Ruaidri was preceded by Aedh mac Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair and succeeded by Felim mac Cathal Crobderg Ua Conchobair.

1264 AD:Ireland: Walter de Burgo was made Earl of Ulster.
1266 AD: John Duns Scotus is born. He died in 1308.
1272 AD:Ireland: The English had now conquered Ulster, east of Lough Neagh, in Meath, as well as most of Connacht and of Munster.

1255 AD, Ireland: A bishop Brenden Mago was buried in Ireland.

1257 AD: Volcanic eruption of Mount Samalas.

~ Indonesia: Large eruption of Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island. This eruption may have contributed to the beginning of The Little Ice Age.

1259 AD: Volcanic eruption; probably at El chichon in  Mexico.

1260 AD to 1294 AD, France: Chartres Cathedral erected.

~ 1327 AD: Meister Eckhart, Johannes Eckhart, German preacher, mystic, theologian. 

1266 AD: John Duns Scotus was born. he died in 1308.

~ Mongolian Empire expands under Kublai Khan

1273 AD:Papacy of Clement IV.

 
1,275 AD to 1,300 AD: Massive volcanic eruptions took place during those time and contributed much to the Little Ice Age. 

~ Massive volcanic eruptions took place and lead to the Little Ice Age.

~ t0 1292 AD: Marco Polo travels through China. Explores part of China.

1276 Ad to 1299 AD, U.S.: Drought in the southwest of the country.

~ to 1300 AD, New Mexico, US: Twenty-four consecutive years of Drought in what is now New Mexico causing a depopulation of the area.

1,280 AD: Volcanism: Quilotoa in  Ecuador probably had a substantial eruption about this time. I believe that there was a low level of solar radiation. The cooling of the Earth's surface and the LIA could be due to a variety of happenings.

~ England: Heavy storms on the south coast.

~ California: Large movement of far southern end of the San Andreas fault.

1290 AD, Italy: Spectacles are invented much like those I ware.

1291 AD: Surrender of Acre, end of the Crusades.

1297 AD; Wallace's victory at Stirling Bridge.

1298 AD: Albert I, Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor of the house of Habsburg,

            

1,301 AD: north Africa: a large earthquake occurred. It rattled the polished limestone coverings from the biggest Egyptian pyramids.


1,400 AD to 1800 AD: I guess that cooling was notable and noted beginning by about 1,400 and was almost forgotten by 1,800. 
 
1,450 AD to 1850 AD: NASA defines the cold period during this time as the Little Ice Age.
                                                          

~ Ireland: End of Milesian kings.

~ Ireland: End of Milesian kings.

 

1172 AD: King Henry II of England is declared Feudal Lord of Ireland by the Pope. Hot tears to the eye.

 

 

1174 AD: Conchobar of Connacht: The battle of Durlus was won by Ua Brian and by Conchobar Maenmhaighi upon the people of the son of the Empress, (the king of the Saxons). Conchobar Maenmaige is mentioned in the Annals of Ulster like this: "The battle of Durlus (gained) by Domnal Ua Brian and by Conchubur Maenmgaighi upon the people of the Empress

1180 AD: Conchobar of Connacht at the Battle of the Connors in Hy Many.

1184 AD, hard days in Ireland: Art O Melaghlin, the King of Meath was treacherously slain by Dermot O'Brien the son of Turlough at the instigation of the English. See Ruaidri (not a sweet heart).

1185 AD, hard days in Ireland: War broke out among the contenders of Connacht as three contenders for the kingship of Connacht assailed both Ruaidri and each other. One of them was Conner's own son.

1186 AD, Ireland: hard days in the land: Both Connacians, father and son, were destroyed by their contention over the Kingship of Connacht. Ruaidri was allowed to return and land given to him. Conchobar began establishing his rule

1235 AD: Ireland: Richard de Burgo conquered Connacht. 

1237 AD to 1480 AD: Russia becomes part of the Mongol Empire.   

1238 AD to 1255 AD when he died. He was buried in an abbey of canons of St Peter, at Derg. He may be a relative of St. Erard, a native of Ireland an a Bishop of Ardagh around 700 AD

~ Arnold Villanova, Spanish physician and alchemist discovers poisonous property of carbon monoxide gas.

1240 AD: Tatars conquered Kiev.Kiev became a Tartar capital.

~ Russian leader Alexandre Nevski defeated Swedish army.

1242 AD to 1248 AD: El Said, Sultan of Morocco at Fez, lost to Mernids.

1250 AD: Atlantic ice pack began to grow.

~ to 1300 AD: Earth and  humans highly disturbed by volcanic activity.***grow.

1254 AD to 1324 AD: Marco Polo, Venetian traveler.

 

1255 AD, Ireland: a bishop Brenden Mago was buried. Brenden Mago dias followed Magodaig archdeacon. Braden Magodaic was another church active from 

1257 AD: Volcanic eruption of Mount Samalas.

~ Large volcanic eruption of Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island in Indonesia may have contributed to the Little Ice Age.

1258 AD: Ireland: Gallowglasses (mercenary soldiers) come to Ulster from Scotland.

~ Mongols sack Baghdad.

 

1275 AD:  Marco Polo entered the service of  Kublai Khan

 

 

1280 AD: Heavy storms on south coast of England.

~ to 1350 AD: Wolf minimum.

1,300 AD: Warm periods stopped being dependable in northern Europe. The growing season changed, affecting food production.

~ Massive volcanic eruptions took place and Lead to the Little Ice Age.

1,300 AD to 1700 AD: During this period Casa Grande in what is now the state of Arizona was used as a trading and religious center by the Hohokam people.
~ to 1400 AD: the Hopi were already established in the north of what is now Arizona.
~ to 1375 AD: Aztecs were established in Tenochtitlan, Mexico.
~ to 1850 AD: was a period of severe winters in North America.
~ to 1500 AD in southern California archaic Lake Cahuilla dried up and disappeared.

~ USA: Great  Anasazi migration resulted in the movement of people living in north of the San Juan River into the Rio Grand valley and the Pajarito plateau of northern New Mexico.

~ USA: Panicum sonorum/panic grass, millet, cushaw squash, tepary beans, were grown by native Americans along the lower Colorado river.

~ USA: Casa Grande of Arizona was built. It was a special use structure of Hohokam people.

~ to 1375 AD: about this time Aztecs established Tenochtitlan.

~ to  1850 AD, Northern Hemisphere: Period of severe winters

~ t0 1400 AD, USA: Homol'ovi II, Ancestral homes of the Hopi people, Homolovi I - IV, Cottonwood Creek Ruin and Clove Pass Ruin, a ;arge site of more than 1,000 rooms are located in the Arizona Homolovi Ruins State Park  5 miles from Winslow.

~ to 1500 AD, USA: Last stand of Lake Cahuilla in southern California.

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923 AD to 1112 AD

 923 AD to 1112 AD: solar activity, China, comets, Ireland, acupuncture, volcanic eruption,

925 AD to 1225 AD, USA: Pueblos I and II ages at Chimney Rock of Chacoan culture. Construction episodes at these two site corresponded with the last two lunar stand-stills of the century, 1075 and 1014.

930 AD, Spain: Islamic Cordoba became the seat of Arab learning.

931 AD to 999 AD: Life-Span of Saint Adelaide. Adelaide was the daughter of king Rudolf II  of Burgundy. She was married to Lothair who became king of Italy. Lothair was poisoned to death by Berengarius, the Marquis of Ivrea.

935 AD: About this time there was a long solar eclipse.

940 AD, Ireland: Brian Boru was born so of a leader of one of the royal free tribes of Munster.

945 AD to 1004 AD: Life-span of St. Ablo. He studied grammar astronomy, mattmatics, philosophy, and Music. Joined the Benedictine monastery at Fleury-sur-Loire. Directed a school in Ramsey, England.

 

 946 AD to 947 AD: Volcanic eruption at Baeckdu Mountain, Baikal Rift Zone, China and North Korea. One of the largest eruption in about 2000 years.

~ Volcanic eruption of Paektu mountain.

950 AD to 1040/1250 AD: Medieval Warm Period in Europe. It maybe warmer now that it was then.`

~ to 1040 AD: Medieval maximum.

~ USA: Cahokia, large Indian village in southern Illinois.

~ al-Farabi died ca this year. In his theoretical writings he mentioned the Arabic musical meter called "saraband." Spanish ''Zarabanda.'' It may be ta túm ,  ta túm,  ta túm;  fan

956 AD to 1015 AD: Vladimir I, Grand Prince of Kiev

980 AD to 983 AD: Erik the Red discovered Greenland. 

982 AD: Erik the Red founded south Greenland colony

985 AD: Vikings sailed to North America.

976 AD, Spain: Great Mosque of Cordoba is built.

~ to 1014 AD, Ireland: Brian Boru Succeeded his brother Mahon(!) as king of Munster.

995 AD to 1,000 AD, Norway: Reign of King Olaf Ist.

999 AD: notable comets.

~ Ireland: Brian Boru defeated Vikings. 

1,000 AD: Marked a beginning of truly uneasy times in Ireland.

~ Leif discovered Vinland.

~ Comets notable, acupuncture,

~ Europe: Beowulf and the Song of Roland were recorded in writing..

~ Period of abrupt warming of much of Earth.

~ to 1400 AD, Between Springerville and St Johns near Lyman Lake, USA: Raven site ruins at surface level 3 kivas and and two morterized rooms. Found was White Mountain redware and later Zuni glazeware.

~ to 1,400 AD, Norway: Earl Erik Hakonarson ruled  at the time of Leif Erikson.

1002 AD, Ireland: Brian Boru wins recognition of all Ireland.

c. 1010 AD: Vikings end visit to Vineland.

1012 AD to 1067 AD: China: Was the life span of Ts'ai in China. During that time he wrote his treatise on tea Ch'alu. 

 

1014 AD, Ireland: Brian Boru defeated Norsemen at Clontarf, but is murdered. Was Cearbhal, Lord of Ely important on the side of Brian Boru in the battle?

~ Ireland: At Clontarf on the Friday before Easter was a battle near Dublin  Brian son of Kennedy, monarch of Ireland, was slain  (who was the Augustus of all the west of Europe?)

~ to 1054 AD, Kievan Russia: With Yaroslav the Wise Kievan Russia attains a peak of cultural and political development

 

1022 AD: Supernova.

 1027 AD, China: The Sung dynasty Emperor Jen Tsung ordered Wang Wei, a noted acupuncturist and sculpture, to cast two hollow bronze figures with all acupuncture points marked by their names and small holes. The figures were covered with wax and filled with water. They were used to train and test students.

~ Avicenna: While discussing the origin of mountains in his book, The Book of Healing, he proposed one of the principles underlying geological time scales, the law of superposition of strata. The layer on top was more often the youngest.

1030 AD: Avicenna, Muslim philosopher writes Canon of Medicine. 

~ to 1070 AD: Chaco Canyon building, roads, irrigation, Removal of most of local forest. (Pochteca) 

1031 AD to 1095 AD: Shen Kuo, the Chinese naturalist recognized the concept of "deep time," perhaps the idea that the lifetime of Earth may go back to a time, not much noted at his time, the idea that Earth history may go back millions of years.

1033 AD: Great Pilgrimage from Europe to Europe.

 1040 AD to 1080 AD: Solar: Oort Minimum.

1054 AD: The Patriarch of Constantinople and the Pope in Roe excommunicated one another, causing the Great Schism between the Byzantine and Latin churches.

~ USA: Anasazi record, pictographically, the supernova explosion. It was a production of the Crab Nebula which was visible by day three weeks. It was visible by night for two years. 

~ China: The great star in the constellation Taurus recorded by Chinese astronomers, a super nova that left the Crab Nebula as debris.

1055  AD to 1083 AD, USA: Hight of Chacoan culture in northern New Mexico

1062 AD to 1148 AD: Almoravids flourished in the southwestern Shara. They were a Berber dynasty ruling in Morocco and part of Spain.

1065 AD to 1275 AD, USA: Elden Pueblo inhabited near what is now Flagstaff, Aridzona

1066 AD: Halley's comet appeared frightening Europeans on the eve of the Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror defeated the English forces under king Harold. William declared himself king bringing about the Norman Conquest of England. William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy takes the English crown.

~ The Earth was warmer then it is now.

~ England: Normans defeated Saxsons.

1076 AD, North America: A total solar eclipse was visible south of Chaco Canyon.

1077 AD, China: Sunspots large enough to be seen with the unaided eye were reported, beginning a more than 200 year period of unusual sunspot activity.

1079 AD to 1142 AD, France: Peter Abelard, French theologian and philosopher, condemned by the Synod of Soissons for his teaching on the Trinity, "Historia Calamitaturum"(?) and the description of his love affair with Heloise. Counsel of sens condemns heresies of Abelard. Did Abelard develop the process of questioning which leads to "truth:" Nothing is to be believed until it is understood.

1086 AD, Ireland: The end of Turlough O'Brian's time as Ard Ri (High King). Turlough was Brian Boru's grandson.

1095 AD: First Crusade,

1097 AD, July 11th? A total eclipse passed over what is now the US Southwest?

1100 AD to 1250 AD: Solar: Medieval Maximum.

 

 

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