Thursday, July 9, 2015

High Middle Ages

1000: The Aurelian Dynasty starts off with Sylvester Aurelius enters the throne.
1003: The invasion of Burgundy by France rules that Burgundy must be partitioned and that the former Alps provinces belong to Rome.
1011: The Roman army first uses Norman mercenaries according to a decree of Sylvester Aurelius.
1018: Basil the Great completes his conquest of Bulgaria. 
1020: The Canon of Medicine was written by Avicenna, a Persian Muslim scholar.
1029: Sylvester Aurelius dies. Verulius Aurelianus accedes the throne.
1040: An early medical book Practica, was written by Petrocellus of Italy.
1050: Normans penetrate to England

1054: The Great Schism happened in which the Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern (Greek Orthodox) churches split from each other. It was when Pope Leo IX and Michael Cerularius excommunicated each other.
1054: Expansion of trade links between Italy and Egypt begin.
1056: Marius Tullius accedes to the Imperial throne.
1058: The building of the Cathedral of Parma begins at the accession of Marius Tullius.
1062: Marius Tullius succeeds in reconquering Toletum after a 14-month seige of the city.
1063: The construction of the Pisa Cathedral begins.
1066: Romanesque architecture invented.
1070: Start of preparations of the Roman-Almohad war, which would be a full-scale battle to recover Carthage.
1071: The Battle of Manzikert ends in defeat for the Byzantine Empire. 
1073: The Romans under the command of Sergius Fixtus and Marius Tullius reconquered the city of Viriathus.