TIMELINE

UNITING THE FRANKS- 496

• Clovis I was their first king and their religion was Roman Catholicism

CROWNING OF CHARLEMAGNE BY THE POPE- 800

• His crowning joined Germanic power with the church and the heritage
• of Rome. The significance of Charlemagne's coronation was that it
• reestablished a strong empire.

GREAT SCHISM- 1054

• The event that divided "chalcedonian" Christianity
• into western (Roman) Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

BATTLE OF HASTINGS- 1066

• Fought between the Norman French army and the English army

BANNING OF LAY INVESTITURE- 1078

• Pope Gregory VII excommunicated Henry IV which as a result
• king Henry IV went to the pope begging for forgiveness, after three days
• in the snow the pope ended his excommunication

BATTLE OF LEGNONO- 1176

• A battle between the Holy Roman Empire and the Lambord league.
• After the battle, Fredrid's rule over Lambardy was broken

MAGNA CARTA -1215

• First document forced onto the king of England by his subjects.
• It required king John of England to proclaim certain liberties.

PARLIAMENT IS FORMED IN ENGLAND- 1241

• The earliest origins of parliament grew out of the ancient government
• institutions of Anglio- Saxon and Norman England