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.

                                                                            Richard Sheehan

545 AD to 734 AD

545 AD to 734 AD,  History Timeline: comets, USA, corn cultivation, volcanism, Mexico, Japan, Ireland, plague, North America, Islam, Muslim

500 AD, USA: This was the approximate end of the relatively peaceful millenia of the Early, Middle, and Late Woodland cultures and the beginning of the southern Death Cult, SDC or SCC, Southern Cult, chiefly Warfare Cult. The SCC included a large exchange network as did the woodlands perion before them.

~ Hittites conquer Mesopotamia.

~ North America: Strong evidence of corn cultivation.

~ to 900 AD, North America: Late Woodland period. 

535 AD, North America: Volcanic disruption. Great cultural changes began.

~ 562 AD, comets: The same comets may have done much damage in Ireland, England, and Bolivia.

540 AD: Around this time an important king Arthur may have lived in or around what is now England.

550 AD: and onward Irish monks re-Christianize Europe. comets, Italy.

~ Japan: Buddhism is introduced

550 AD: and onward Irish monks re-Christianize Europe.

550 AD: and onward Irish monks re-Christianize Europe.

~ Mexico: Mayans found Chichen?? Itza.

557 AD: Columcille leaves Ireland for Iona.

561, Ireland: Battle of Culdremna.

~ Comets: The same comets which seem to have do so much harm in England and Ireland seem to have done damage in Bolivia too.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in Ireland, England, and in Bolivia.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in

England, Ireland, and Bolivia.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in

England, Ireland, and Bolivia.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in

England, Ireland, and Bolivia.

~ USA: Riverine tribes planted in the Colorado flood plain and crossed Algodones dunes to plant and fish on Lake Cahuilla shore.

563 AD: Columcille sails to Iona, from whence he Christianized Scotland and much of England.

565 AD: The reign of Justinian ended with bubonic plague.

570 AD: Birth of Muhammad at Mecca.

579: Lombards were in what is now Italy.

582 AD to 720 AD: About this time Idwal Roebuck was active.

590 AD: Columbanus leaves for Gaul. Columbanus was an Irish missionary to Europe.

597 AD: Columcille dies. His name and reputation was greatest in the Irish church. He had a great reputation as a missionary.

604 AD: Japan gets its first written constitution. Which country got theirs earlier??

614 AD to 680 AD: Life of Saint Hilda. Born in 610? to a noble family in Anglo -     England. Hilda was the daughter of Herrick? who was the nephew of St. Edwin, the exiled king of Northumbria. Around 647 Hilda was made abbess of the double monastery at Harthepost?

618 AD to 707 AD, China: The tang dynasty was fruitful.

623 AD: From the first of this year people of Islam took steps to becoming a political state.

 

633 AD: Islam was becoming a military force.

 

655 AD: Islam is now a naval power.

630 AD: Xuan Zang, Buddhist monk and traveler visited Samarkand in present Uzbekistan. 

~ Chinese controlled a large part of central Asia. 

632 AD: Death of  Mohamad. 

635 AD: Aidan founds Lindisfarne.

639 AD: Muslim armies conquered the southern territories of the Byzantine empire (Syria, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Jordan.

645 AD: Return of Yuan Chuang(Huen Tsiang)to China.

655 AD: Islam is now a naval power.

650 AD to 900 AD: Mexico: Xochicalco had an interesting an active society in what is now Morelia. It may be the most densely constructed site in Mesoamerica. From about 800 AD it was a rival and successor to Teotihuacan. It contained and interesting celestial observatory which was probably constructed around 700 AD.

660 AD to 690 AD, Ireland: Plague years

664 AD: Pestilence in England.

660 AD to 802 A D, Ireland: ? Perhaps 40 years of greatly damaging occurrences in Ireland which traumatized the culture?

672 AD, England: Pestilence.

682 AD- 720 AD, Ireland: Idwal Roebuck lived.

683 AD, England: Pestilence.

694 AD to 701 AD, Ireland: Laingsech, Langseth, Oengusso lived.

~ Ireland: Viking attack on Lambay Island of Dublin.

~ North America: Hopewell culture responsible for significant earthworks

698 AD: Willibrord(?) of Ulrecht(?) discovers Heligoland island

 

 

700 AD: It has been estimated that by this time 1% of the world population is Muslim. 

~ to 1700 AD, North America: Mississippi Tradition (Bahn) 

~ to 800 AD: Irish monastic culture at its height.

~ to 795 AD:  Full-scale Viking invasion of Ireland.

~ to 1,200 AD, USA: "Pueblo" stone dwellings along rivers and high up canyon walls. These "Pueblo" were called Anasazi by the Navajo.

~ to 1500 AD, USA: Cahokia a large settlement along the Mississippi River with a population of perhaps 20,000 persons. They left large earthen mounds. They farmed corn. There homes seemed to have been partially subterranean thatched row houses around open plazas.

~ Ireland: It seems that much Irish history was being collected in munster about this time

710 AD to 711 AD, Spain: Moors invade.

356 AD to 545 AD 

 

 

350 AD: Christianity had reached most of the population of Ireland.  

 

334 BC to 323 BC: The time of Alexander the Great.

 

329 BC: Alexander founded the city of Escate (Eschate) in Neb, now Tajikistan.

320 BC to 319 BC: Ireland: Nia Segamain may have been High King during a portion of this period. His mother may have been Flidais of Tuatha De Danann. In his kingship, he was preceded by Conal Collamrach whom he killed and followed by Enna Aignech. 

358 AD August 24th: The city of Nicomedia was half destroyed by an earthquake.

360 AD: about this time books began to replace scrowls.

365 AD to 427 AD, China: Marks the life-span of Tiao Chien, a poet.

~ Egypt: An Earthquake devastated the port of Alexandria.

370 AD: Teenaged Augustine went to Carthage.

~ Saint Nicolas was elected Bishop of Myra(Turkey) in this 4th century of  LJC. He later became the patron saint of Russia and Greece.

~ Huns invaded Europe.

 

 

377 AD to 405 AD: Niall of the Nine Hostages is High King to many in Ireland.

 

378 BC: Mago defeated at the battle of Cronion in Southern Italy by the Syracusan army.  Syracuse and Carthage make peace.

379 AD to 395 AD, Rome: Reign of Theodosius I as Roman emperor.

383 AD: Roman legions begin to evacuate Britain,

385 AD to 461 AD: Likely lifespan of Saint Patrick.

386 AD: Bishop Ambrose of Milan introduces hymn singing.

399 AD: Saint Augustine writes Confessions. 

400 AD: North America: Hopewell period ended. Middle Woodland period began,

~ to 800 AD or to discovery Has been called the Mississippian Period.

~ to 500 AD: Middle Syriac an Aramaic was spoken east of the Mediterranean during this time. It is the classical, literary, and liturgical language of the Syriac Christians of that time. See Ephrem the Syrian.

~ Polynesians began migration to Hawaii in their fine sea going canoes.

~ to 450 AD:  Irish/Pictish invasion of Hadrian's wall carried on.

~ (?) Hippocrates began movement toward medicine as science.

~ to 460 AD: may mark  the approximate life span of Saint Patrick.

~ Hopewell period ended,

~ Middle Woodland Period began.

~ to 800 AD: or to European discovery: the Mississippian Period.

540 AD to 562 AD: Around this time an important king Arthur may have lived in or around what is now England.

   

401 AD: Pope St. Innocent I.

409 AD: Roman garrison abandons/withdraws from Britain to protect Italy.

410 AD: Rome is plundered by Visigoths; they sacked Rome. 

417 AD: Pope St. Zosimus.

420 AD to 550 AD: Life of Saint Bridget of Kildare/Mary of God.

430 AD: Death of Augustine at Hippo.

431 AD:Pope Celestine I sent  Palladius to the Irish, as their first Bishop, Palladius died soon after.

432 AD: Saint Patrick begins his mission to Ireland. Bishop Patrick arrives in Ireland.

~ Traditional date for the arrival of St, Patrick in Ireland.

431 AD: Pope Celestine sends Palladius to the Irish. Palladius died soon after.

432 AD: Traditional date of the arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland.

~ Arrival of St. Patrick to help convert the Gaelic Kings to Christianity.

436 AD, Britain: Last Roman troops leave.

440 AD: The ancient town of Ys in Brittany submerged in great flood.

450 AD ~ 520 AD: Merlin Ambrosius, Merlinus, Mellin Dubrivius

~ 500 AD: ? Huna destruction in North India

550 AD to 690 AD: Plague like sickness in Europe and Near East

452 AD: Fever checks Attila's (the Hun) advance in northern Italy.

455 AD to 500 AD: Saint Bridget of Kildare, Mary of God.

 

461 AD: St Patrick died after having achieved his dream of introducing the Roman civilization and the Christian church to Ireland, it has been said. (what happened in 565?)

468 AD: Pope saint Simplicius.

479 AD: Lombards were in what is now Italy.

480 AD to 520 AD: About the lifespan of King Aurtor/Arthur.

~ t0 520 AD: Boethius, Anucias Manlius, Roman statesman, Philosopher, writer.

c. 484 AD to 577 AD, Ireland: Life of St Brendan, a leader of Irish Christianity. He was raised by St It and completed his education with the Bishop of Kerry. As St Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland, monastery life became a popular vocation and Brendan became a monk.

490 AD to 562 AD, Byzantia: Life span of Procopius, Byzantine historian.

500 AD, India: Sun worship a major activity.

~ China: Sunspots abundant to the eye according to observers.

~ to present: Ojibwa/Chippewa woodland Native Americans fish and hunt in the  northwest Great Lakes region.

~ to 590 AD: approximate life-span of Saint Columba.

~  to 900 AD, North America: Has been called the Late Woodland period there.

~ North America: Strong evidence of maize(corn)cultivation.

~ Hittites conquer Mesopotamia.

~ North America: This was the beginning of the end of a relatively peaceful millennia of the Early, Middle, and Late Woodland cultures and the beginning of the SCC. The SCC has been called the Southern Death Cult, Southern Cult, And Chiefly Warfare Cult. SCC included a continuation of a large exchange network as had the Woodland periods before them. These changes included large immigration from the south.

503 AD: Battle of Mount Badon. Arthur the Briton defeats Saxons from Germany.

529 AD: Monastery of Monte Cassino, Italy was founded by St. Benedict of Nursia. Although the monks lead a life of prayer and Manuel labor, they provided almost all medical skill an preserved much classical learning which might otherwise have been lost.

~ North America: The beginning of the end of a relatively peaceful millennia of the woodland cultures and the beginning of the SCC. The SCC has been called the Southern Death Cult, Southern Cult, Chiefly Warfare Cult. The SCC continued  a large trade network as had the Woodland cultures before them. 

~ Hittites conquered Mesopotamia.

~ North America: the beginning of strong evidence of corn (maize) cultivation

~ to 900 AD, North America: Has been the duration of the Late woodland period. 

531 AD: Great comet.

532

535 AD to 554 AD: Byzantium reconquers Italy.

~ North America: Great cultural changes began in central North America after the volcanic disruption began.

~ to 562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in Ireland, England, and Bolivia.

540 AD to 560 AD: Taliesin the poet wrote. 

~ to 590 AD: Life of Saint Columba.

~ About this time an important king Arthur is likely to have lived.

543 AD: Earthquakes shake the entire world. 

550 AD to 690 AD: Plague like sickness in Europe and Near East.

565 AD: The reign of Justinian ended with bubonic plague.

470 AD to 549 AD, Ireland: Life of St. Finnian who was born in County Carlow. He became a monk in Wales in his youth. He founded a school at Conard which at one time had perhaps 3,000 students. Many of the students from his school at Conard became saints: St. Brendan, St. Columba, St. Kenneth (Canice?)

477 AD to 524 AD, Roman: Boethius, Anicus Manlius, Severius Boethius. He was a Roman senator, consul, magistrate, officiorum, and philosopher. He was born in the Roman Kingdom of Odoacer about a year after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman and declared himself king of Italy. Boethius died in Pavia, Ostrogoth kingdom.(?) He also wrote and has been called a statesman and Philosopher.

480 AD to 547 AD: Has been said to have been the life span of Saint Benedict, founder of the Benedictine Order.

481 AD to 511 AD, Gaul: Clovis the Frank reigned at this time. So, he has been called King of the Franks.

483 AD to 526 AD, Italy: Theodoric the Ostrogoth reigns.

490 AD to 562 AD: The likely life span of the Byzantine historian Procopius.

498 AD: Pope Saint Symmachus

500 AD: Considered the period of flourishing of the Hopewell Tradition along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers of North America.

~ to 900 AD: North America: Late Woodland Period, transition

~ North America: Strong evidence of wide spread maize cultivation. It's corn! 

~ US: Basket Makers are in what is now central Nevada. Those Basket Makers were still hunting with the atlatl.

~ Was the ending of a relatively peaceful millennia of the early, middle, and late Woodland cultures and the beginning of the SCC. The SCC has been called the Southern Death Cult, Southern Cult, Chiefly Warfare Cult. The SCC included a large exchange network did as the Woodlands period before them.

~ Hittites conquer Mesopotamia,

~ Strong evidence of corn cultivation in North America.

~ About this time Armenians developed their own alphabet.

~ to 579 AD \sunspots abundant to the eye according to Chinese observers.

~ US: By this time The Uto Aztecan ancestors of the Gabrielino were established on the Southern California Coast.

~ Ireland: Bridgid founds Kildare.

 

521 AD: Columba or Colum Cille arrived at Garten in Tyreconnell.? He became a priest and became the first abbot of a church at Derry, Ireland.

527 AD: Reign of Justinian I, Byzantien Emperor 

535 AD: Significant cultural changes began in central North America after the the volcanic disruptions began.

~ to 562 AD, Comets: Comets that did so much damage in Ireland and England, may have struck Bolivia at the same time.

540 AD  to  562 AD: An important King Arthur was likely alive during this time.

~ to 590 AD: life of Saint Columba.

 

541 AD: The Justinian massive economic struggle help spread Christianity.

543 AD, Constantinople: Perhaps as many as ten thousand died of plague in one day.

~ Earthquakes shake the entire world!

550 AD: and onward Irish monks re-Christianize Europe.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage i Ireland, England, and Bolivia.

579: Lombards were in what is now Italy.

682 AD- 720 AD: Idwal Roebuck lived.

694 AD to 701 AD: Laingsech, Langseth, Oengusso lived.