| Date |
Place |
Country |
Cont. |
Name of Building |
By Whom |
Date |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Compl. |
|
|
|
| 1 |
Leptis Magna |
Libya |
AF |
Theater |
|
2 |
|
|
|
| 6 |
|
China |
AS |
Civil
Service Examinations instituted |
|
|
|
|
|
| 14 |
Rome |
|
E |
Death of Augustus |
|
|
|
|
|
| 25 |
|
China |
AS |
Beginning of
Later Han Dynasty |
|
|
|
|
|
| 29 |
|
Israel |
ME |
Crucifixionof Christ |
|
|
|
|
|
| 54 |
Rome |
|
E |
Baths of Nero |
|
68 |
|
|
|
| 63 |
|
Syria |
ME |
Death of St Paul |
|
|
|
|
|
| 64 |
Rome |
|
E |
Domus Aurea, Golden House of Nero |
Severus & Celer |
68 |
|
|
|
| 64 |
Rome |
|
E |
Great Fire of Rome |
|
|
|
|
|
| 68 |
Rome |
|
E |
Death of Nero |
|
|
|
|
|
| 70 |
Pompeii |
Italy |
E |
House of Ara Maxima |
|
|
|
|
|
| 72 |
Rome |
|
E |
Colosseum amphitheater |
|
80 |
|
|
|
| 79 |
Pompeii & Herculaneum |
Italy |
E |
Destroyed by Eruption of Vesuvius |
|
|
|
|
|
| 79 |
Rome |
|
E |
Baths of Titus |
|
81 |
|
|
|
| 81 |
Rome |
|
E |
Stadium of Domitian |
|
96 |
|
|
|
| 92 |
Rome |
|
E |
Imperial palace on the Palatine Hill |
groundplan Rabirius |
|
|
|
|
| 97 |
|
China |
AS |
Chinese ecpedition under Kang Yin, penetrates
to Persian Gulf |
|
|
|
|
| 100 |
Timgad (Thamugadi) |
Algeria |
AF |
Founded |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| 100 |
Teotihuacán |
Mexico |
LA |
Completion of the Moon Pyramid and the
Quetzalcoatl pyramid |
300 |
|
|
|
| 100 |
Karli |
India |
AS |
Rock Cut Chaitya Hall of the Buddhist sanctuary |
|
125 |
|
|
|
| 100 |
Assur |
Iraq |
ME |
Parthian Palace |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| 100 |
Hatra |
Iraq |
ME |
Parthian Sanctuary of the Sun |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| 100 |
Rome |
|
E |
Markets of Trajan |
Apollodorus of Damascus |
112 |
|
|
|
| 109 |
Rome |
|
E |
Baths of Trajan |
|
|
|
|
|
| 113 |
Rome |
|
E |
Column of Trajan repr victory over Dacians |
|
|
|
|
|
| 117 |
Rome |
|
E |
Temple of Venus & Rome |
|
138 |
|
|
|
| 117 |
Rome |
|
E |
Death of Trajan |
|
|
|
|
|
| 120 |
Rome |
|
E |
Pantheon |
|
127 |
|
|
|
| 122 |
|
Scotland |
E |
Hadrian's wall begun under Aulus Platorius Nepos |
|
|
|
|
|
| 135 |
|
Israel |
ME |
Dispersion of the Jews |
|
|
|
|
|
| 172 |
Rome |
|
E |
Column of Marcus Aurelius recording Danubian Wars |
|
175 |
|
|
|
| 175 |
Rome |
|
E |
CatacombofS Priscilla |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| 180 |
Rome |
|
E |
Death of Marcus Aurelius and the beginning of
"The Decline and Fall of Rome (Gibbon) |
|
|
|
|
| 200 |
Teotihuacán |
Mexico |
LA |
The Northern "Moon" pyramid |
|
before |
|
|
|
| 200 |
Cholula |
Mexico |
LA |
Court of the Altars |
|
before |
|
|
|
| 200 |
Rabat-i-Safid |
Iran |
ME |
Fire Temple |
|
|
|
|
|
| 200 |
Baalbek |
Lebanon |
AF |
Temple of Venus |
|
300 |
|
|
|
| 200 |
Rome |
|
E |
Sanctuary of Mithras |
|
225 |
|
|
|
| 200 |
Rome |
|
E |
Catacomb of Domitilla |
|
|
|
|
|
| 200 |
Rome |
|
E |
Catacomb of S Panfilo |
|
400 |
|
|
|
| 212 |
Rome |
|
E |
Baths of Caracalla, (Thermae Antonianae) |
|
216 |
|
|
|
| 220 |
|
China |
AS |
End of Han Dynasty, invasions of China begin |
|
|
|
|
|
| 227 |
|
Persia |
ME |
Sassanid Empire begins |
|
|
|
|
|
| 230 |
|
Japan |
AS |
Emperor Sujin, Japan's history emerges out of
legendary stage |
|
|
|
|
| 231 |
Dura Europos (Salhiyeh) |
Syria |
ME |
Christian Community House |
|
|
|
|
|
| 270 |
Rome |
|
E |
The walls of Aurelia |
|
271 |
|
|
|
| 273 |
Palmyra |
Syria |
ME |
Destruction of city by Emperor Aurelian |
|
|
|
|
|
| 284 |
Rome |
|
E |
Accession of Diocletian as Emperor of Rome |
|
|
|
|
|
| 300 |
Monte Alban |
Mexico |
LA |
Temple pyramids of Group M |
|
after |
|
|
|
| 300 |
Spalato |
(Split)Croatia |
E |
Palace of Emperor Diocletian |
|
306 |
|
|
|
| 300 |
Trier |
Germany |
E |
Palace of Constantine |
|
325 |
|
|
|
| 300 |
Piazza Armerina |
Sicily |
E |
Villa of Emperor Maximianus |
|
325 |
|
|
|
| 300 |
Rome |
|
E |
Temple of Minerva Medica |
|
325 |
|
|
|
| 306 |
York |
England |
E |
Constantine proclaimed emperor of Rome |
|
|
|
|
|
| 313 |
Milan |
Italy |
E |
Edict of Milan Christianity tolerated in Roman Empire |
|
|
|
|
|
| 320 |
|
India |
AS |
Gupta dynasty reunites India |
|
|
|
|
|
| 320 |
Rome |
|
E |
Old St Peter's |
|
330 |
|
|
|
| 320 |
Rome |
|
E |
Old St Peter's |
|
330 |
|
|
|
| 325 |
Nicaea |
|
ME |
First General Council of the Church |
|
|
|
|
|
| 328 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
The Holy Sepulchre |
|
336 |
|
|
|
| 350 |
Rome |
|
E |
Sta Costanza, Mausoleum for Constantia |
|
|
|
|
|
| 395 |
Rome |
|
E |
Death of Theodosius the Great, the division of
the Roman Empire into East and West |
|
|
|
|
| 400 |
Arles |
France |
E |
Medieval Town built within Roman Amphitheatre |
|
|
|
|
|
| 400 |
Ravenna |
Italy |
E |
Orthodox Baptistry |
|
450 |
|
|
|
| 400 |
Teotihuacán |
Mexico |
LA |
Outer Suburbs and Ceremonial platforms such as
the Ciudadela |
before 700 |
|
|
|
| 410 |
Rome |
|
E |
Sack of Rome by Alaric the Goth |
|
|
|
|
|
| 422 |
Rome |
|
E |
S Sabina |
|
432 |
|
|
|
| 432 |
|
Ireland |
E |
St Patrick begins mission in Ireland |
|
|
|
|
|
| 452 |
|
Italy |
E |
Attila the Hun raides Italy, Venice founded by refugees |
|
|
|
|
|
| 455 |
Rome |
|
E |
Pillaged by Vandals |
|
|
|
|
|
| 476 |
Rome |
|
E |
Romulus
Augustus deposed by Odovacar, conventionally the end of the Roman Empire |
|
|
|
| 480 |
Der Turmanin |
Syria |
ME |
Church |
|
|
|
|
|
| 481 |
|
France/Gaul |
E |
Clovis becomes King of the Franks |
|
|
|
|
|
| 493 |
Ravenna |
Italy |
E |
Theodoric founds Ostrogothic kingdom |
|
|
|
|
|
| 500 |
Deogarth |
India |
AS |
TempleofVishnu |
|
600 |
|
|
|
| 500 |
NazcaPlain |
Peru |
LA |
Grounddrawings |
|
|
|
|
|
| 500 |
Atetelco |
Mexico |
LA |
Dwelling Group |
|
c |
|
|
|
| 527 |
Istanbul |
Turkey |
ME |
Accession of Justinian I (d. 565) |
|
|
|
|
|
| 529 |
Monte Cassino |
Italy |
E |
Monastic Rule of St Benedict put into practice |
|
|
|
|
|
| 529 |
Istanbul |
Turkey |
ME |
Code of Civil Law published by Justinian |
|
|
|
|
|
| 532 |
Istanbul |
Turkey |
ME |
Hagia Sophia |
Isidorus &
Anthemios |
537 |
|
|
|
| 546 |
Ravenna |
Italy |
E |
San Vitale |
|
548 |
|
|
|
| 552 |
|
Italy |
E |
Byzantine reconquest of Italy |
|
|
|
|
|
| 563 |
Iona |
Scotland |
E |
St Columba founds mission |
|
|
|
|
|
| 568 |
Lombardy |
N. Italy |
E |
Lombard Kingdom Founded |
|
|
|
|
|
| 570 |
Mecca |
Saudi Arabia |
ME |
Birth of Mohammed |
|
|
|
|
|
| 589 |
|
China |
AS |
Reunion of China under Southern Ch'en Dynasty |
|
|
|
|
|
| 590 |
Rome |
|
E |
Gregory the Great becomes Pope |
|
|
|
|
|
| 600 |
Tají Chico |
Mexico |
LA |
Platform A |
|
after |
|
|
|
| 600 |
Tajín |
Mexico |
LA |
Principal pyramid |
|
before |
|
|
|
| 600 |
Poitiers |
France |
E |
Baptistery of St Jean |
|
700 |
|
|
|
| 600 |
Karaiwan |
Tunisia |
AF |
Great Mosque |
|
700 |
|
|
|
| 618 |
Ch'ang-an |
China |
AS |
City of the Tang Dynasty |
|
907 |
|
|
|
| 618 |
|
China |
AS |
T'ang dynasty, lasts 1300 years |
|
|
|
|
|
| 622 |
Mecca |
Saudi Arabia |
ME |
Hejira or flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina |
|
|
|
|
|
| 632 |
Medina |
Saudi Arabia |
ME |
Deathe of Mohammed: all Arabia no Islamic;
accession of the first Caliph Abu Bakr |
|
|
|
|
| 638 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
Captured by the Moslims |
|
|
|
|
|
| 641 |
Mehawand |
Persia |
ME |
Persia captured by the Moslims |
|
|
|
|
|
| 643 |
Alexandria |
Egypt |
AF |
Captured by the oslems |
|
|
|
|
|
| 645 |
|
Japan |
AS |
Downfall
of Soga Clan after establishment of Buddhism, beginning of period of
imitation of Chinese culture |
|
|
|
| 650 |
|
Balkans |
E |
Slav Occupation complete |
|
|
|
|
|
| 663 |
Whitby |
England |
E |
Synod of
Whitby, Roman Christianity triumphs over Irish or Celtic Christianity in
England |
|
|
|
| 680 |
El Capilo |
Spain |
E |
San Pedro della Nave |
|
711 |
|
|
|
| 685 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
Dome of the Rock or Kubbat-al-Sakhra |
|
690 |
|
|
|
| 698 |
Carthage |
Tunisia |
AF |
Taken by Moslims |
|
|
|
|
|
| 700 |
Teotihuacán |
Mexico |
LA |
Quetzalpapálotl |
|
Before |
|
|
|
| 700 |
Tikal |
Guatemala |
LA |
Temple of the Giant Jaguar |
|
|
|
|
|
| 705 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
The Mosque of al-Aqsa |
|
|
|
|
|
| 711 |
|
Spain |
E |
Tarik invades Spain |
|
|
|
|
|
| 718 |
Asturia |
Spain |
E |
Pelayo founds Christian Kingdom of Asturias in
Northern Spain |
|
|
|
|
| 718 |
Istanbul |
Turkey |
ME |
Failure of Second Moslem Attack on
Constantinople (Istanbul) |
|
|
|
|
| 726 |
Istanbul (Constantinople) |
Turkey |
ME |
Byzantine
Emperor Leo III begins Iconoclastic Movement which is opposed by Pope Gregory
III: difference between Roman and Byzantine Church |
|
|
|
| 732 |
Tours |
France |
E |
Moslem Western advance halted by Charles Martel |
|
|
|
|
|
| 735 |
|
England |
E |
Death of Bede |
|
|
|
|
|
| 739 |
Khirbat-al-Mafjar |
Jordan |
ME |
Umayyad palace |
|
744 |
|
|
|
| 750 |
|
Arabia |
ME |
Beginning of Abbasid Caliphate replacing the Umayyads |
|
|
|
|
|
| 750 |
Quiriga |
Mexico |
LA |
Sandstone stele |
|
800 |
|
|
|
| 750 |
Cordoba |
Spain |
E |
Great Mosque |
|
1000 |
|
|
|
| 751 |
|
France |
E |
Pepin King of the Franks founds Carolingian Dynasty |
|
|
|
|
|
| 751 |
Ravenna |
Italy |
E |
Taken by Lombards, end of Byzantine power in
the West |
|
|
|
|
| 754 |
Rome |
Italy |
E |
Pepin promises central Italy to the Pope:
beginning of worldly power of the Papacy |
|
|
|
|
| 762 |
Baghdad |
Iraq |
ME |
City founded by
Caliph al-Mansur |
|
767 |
|
|
|
| 786 |
Baghdad |
Iraq |
ME |
Accession of Haroun-al-Rashid |
|
|
|
|
|
| 790 |
Centula |
France |
E |
St Riquier AbbeyChurch |
|
799 |
|
|
|
| 793 |
Lindisfarne |
England |
E |
Sacked by Vikings: Viking Invasions begin |
|
|
|
|
|
| 796 |
Aachen |
Germany |
E |
Palatine Chapel and Palace |
|
804 |
|
|
|
| 800 |
Trelleborg |
Denmark |
E |
Viking Camp |
|
900 |
|
|
|
| 800 |
Lorsch |
Germany |
E |
Carolingian monastery gatehouse |
|
|
|
|
|
| 800 |
|
Germany/France |
E |
Charlemagne crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in Rome |
|
|
|
|
|
| 802 |
Fulda |
Germany |
E |
Carolingian church |
|
817 |
|
|
|
| 806 |
Germigny-des-Prés |
France |
E |
Oratory of Theodulf, bishop of Orléans |
|
|
|
|
|
| 814 |
Aachen |
Germany |
E |
Death of Charlemagne |
|
|
|
|
|
| 820 |
St Gall |
Switserland |
E |
Ideal Plan of Monastery |
|
|
|
|
|
| 820 |
Kairawan |
Tunisia |
AF |
the Great Mosque |
|
836 |
|
|
|
| 827 |
|
Sicily |
E |
Moslem Invasion |
|
|
|
|
|
| 836 |
Samarra |
Iraq |
ME |
Abassid Palace Jausaq-al-Kharqani or Bayt-al-Khalifa |
|
837 |
|
|
|
| 840 |
Bari |
S. Italy |
E |
Captured by Moslems |
|
|
|
|
|
| 843 |
Verdun |
France |
E |
Treaty of Verdun: divison of Germany and France
into separate states |
|
|
|
|
| 857 |
Wu-t'ai Shan |
China |
AS |
Fo-Kuang Ssu |
|
|
|
|
|
| 862 |
Novgorod/Kiev |
Russia |
E |
Rurik founds Viking State in Russia |
|
|
|
|
|
| 866 |
|
Japan |
AS |
Fujiwara begins |
|
|
|
|
|
| 868 |
|
China |
AS |
Earliest dated printed book |
|
|
|
|
|
| 873 |
Corvey |
Germany |
E |
Benedictine
Abbey, church of St Vitus |
|
885 |
|
|
|
| 885 |
Paris |
France |
E |
Viking attack |
|
886 |
|
|
|
| 893 |
|
Bulgaria |
E |
Simeon founds Bulgar Empire in the Balkans |
|
|
|
|
|
| 900 |
Cholula |
Mexico |
LA |
Main pyramid |
|
c. |
|
|
|
| 900 |
Mitla |
Mexico |
LA |
Temple Complex |
|
c. |
|
|
|
| 900 |
Xochicalco |
Mexico |
LA |
Temple Complex |
|
before |
|
|
|
| 900 |
Cacaxtla |
Mexico |
LA |
Temple Complex |
|
before |
|
|
|
| 900 |
Tajín Chico |
Mexico |
LA |
Columnar Building |
|
after |
|
|
|
| 900 |
|
Ghana |
AF |
Height of its power in N. W. Africa |
|
|
|
|
|
| 900 |
Milan |
Italy |
E |
S Ambrogio |
|
12000 |
|
|
|
| 910 |
Cluny |
France |
E |
Order of Cluny founded |
|
|
|
|
|
| 912 |
Cordoba |
Spain |
E |
Accession of Abderrahman III |
|
|
|
|
|
| 929 |
|
Czech Rep. |
E |
Death of Christian King Wenceslas |
|
|
|
|
|
| 955 |
Lechfeld |
Germany |
E |
Magyars defeated by Otto the Great |
|
|
|
|
|
| 960 |
|
China |
AS |
Beginnings of Sung dynasty |
|
|
|
|
|
| 961 |
Angkor |
Cambodia |
AS |
Temple Mountain of Pre Rup |
|
|
|
|
|
| 965 |
|
Denmark |
E |
Harold Bluetooth of Denmark accepts Christianity |
|
|
|
|
|
| 969 |
|
Egypt |
AF |
Fatimids begin their rule |
|
|
|
|
|
| 982 |
|
Greenland |
NA |
Discovered by Norsemen |
|
|
|
|
|
| 987 |
|
France |
E |
Hugh Capet becomes king of France |
|
|
|
|
|
| 988 |
Kiev |
Russia |
E |
Vladimir of Kiev accepts Christianity |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1000 |
Pyrenees |
France/Spain |
E |
Camino along Pilgrimage route to Santiago de
Compostella |
1100 |
|
|
|
| 1000 |
Florence |
Italy |
E |
Baptistery |
|
1200 |
|
|
|
| 1000 |
Chan Chan |
Peru |
LA |
Chimu Capital founded |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1000 |
|
USA |
NA |
Leif Ericsson discovers America |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1001 |
St Martin de
Canigou |
France |
E |
Monastery |
|
1026 |
|
|
|
| 1001 |
Hildesheim |
Germany |
E |
St Michael's |
|
1033 |
|
|
|
| 1030 |
Speyer |
Germany |
E |
Cathedral, first stage |
|
1061 |
|
|
|
| 1050 |
Conques |
France |
E |
Ste Foy |
|
1120 |
|
|
|
| 1054 |
|
W. Africa |
AF |
Beginnings of Almoravid conquests |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1060 |
St Savin sur Gartempe |
France |
E |
Abbey Church |
|
1115 |
|
|
|
| 1060 |
|
Sicily |
E |
Normans invade |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1063 |
Venice |
Italy |
E |
St Mark's |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1063 |
Pisa |
Italy |
E |
Cathedral |
Busketos |
1118 |
|
|
|
| 1063 |
Pomposa, Ferrara |
Italy |
E |
Abbey Church of S Maria |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1065 |
Puente la Reina |
Spain |
E |
bridge over the Arga river |
|
1109 |
|
|
|
| 1066 |
|
England |
E |
Normans invade |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1068 |
Caen |
France |
E |
Abbaye-aux-Hommes, (MaleAbbey) St Étienne |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1069 |
|
China |
AS |
Reforms of Wang An-Shih in China |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1071 |
|
Turkey |
ME |
Seljuk Turks overrun Anatolia (Turkey) |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1073 |
Rome |
|
E |
Gregory VII becomes Pope: Papal authority enforced |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1075 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
Seljuk Turks capture city |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1076 |
Kumbi |
Ghana |
AF |
city sacked by Almoravids and decline of Empire |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1080 |
Winchester |
England |
E |
North Transept Cathedral |
|
1090 |
|
|
|
| 1083 |
Nevers |
France |
E |
St Étienne |
|
1097 |
|
|
|
| 1084 |
Chartreuse |
France |
E |
Carthusian Order founded by St Bruno |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1086 |
|
England |
E |
Domesday Book compiled |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1087 |
Cairo |
Egypt |
AF |
the Walls of the Fatimid Minister Badr-al-Gamali |
|
1092 |
|
|
|
| 1088 |
Isfahan |
Iran |
ME |
Great Mosque, Masjid-i-Jami |
|
1089 |
|
|
|
| 1090 |
Avila |
Spain |
E |
City Walls |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1094 |
Valencia |
Spain |
E |
El Cid takes the city from the Moslems |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1095 |
Cluny |
France |
E |
Abbey, Cluny III |
|
1130 |
|
|
|
| 1098 |
Cîtaux |
France |
E |
Cistercian Order founded by St Robert |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1099 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
1st Crusade, asked for by Pope Urban II, under
Godfrey of Bouilon takes the city |
|
|
|
|
| 1099 |
Modena |
Italy |
E |
Cathedral |
|
1184 |
|
|
|
| 1100 |
Périgeux |
France |
E |
St Front |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1100 |
Moissac |
France |
E |
Cluniac Priory |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1100 |
Tonnere |
France |
E |
Hospital
of Notre Dame des Fontenilles |
|
1200 |
|
|
|
| 1100 |
Chichén Itza, Yucatan |
Mexico |
LA |
Temple of the Warriors |
|
1200 |
|
|
|
| 1100 |
Qalaat-el-Hosn |
Syria |
ME |
Krak des Chevaliers |
|
1200 |
|
|
|
| 1100 |
Rome |
|
E |
S Giorgio in Velabro |
|
1200 |
|
|
|
| 1104 |
Vezelay |
France |
E |
Ste Madeleine |
|
1132 |
|
|
|
| 1110 |
Tournai |
Belgium |
E |
Cathedral |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1110 |
Pavia |
Italy |
E |
S Michele |
|
1160 |
|
|
|
| 1113 |
Angkor Wat |
Cambodia |
AS |
Temple |
|
1150 |
|
|
|
| 1115 |
Clairvaux |
France |
E |
St Bernard founds monastery |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1120 |
Autun |
France |
E |
St Lazare |
|
1132 |
|
|
|
| 1122 |
Worms |
Germany |
E |
Concordat
of Worms, Pope and Emperor compromise but conitue to quarrel (Guelphs &
Ghibellines) |
|
|
|
| 1130 |
Cambridge |
England |
E |
Church of the Holy Sepulchre |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1130 |
St Jouin des
Marnes, Poitou |
France |
E |
church |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1133 |
Hildesheim |
Germany |
E |
St Godehard's |
|
1172 |
|
|
|
| 1139 |
Fontenay |
France |
E |
Cistercian abbey |
|
1147 |
|
|
|
| 1140 |
Essex |
England |
E |
Castle Hedingham |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1140 |
St Denis |
France |
E |
Abbey Church Choir |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1143 |
Lucca |
Italy |
E |
S Michele |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1148 |
Damscus |
Syria |
ME |
2nd Crusade to capture Damscus fails |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1161 |
|
China |
AS |
Explosives used in warfare |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1169 |
|
Egypt |
AF |
Accession of Saladin |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1170 |
Lincoln |
England |
E |
Jew's House |
|
1180 |
|
|
|
| 1170 |
Cantebury |
England |
E |
Murder of Thomas a Becket |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1174 |
Cantebury |
England |
E |
Cathedral choir, orig. building 1067-1130 |
William of Sens |
|
|
|
|
| 1176 |
Legnano |
Italy |
E |
Frederick Barbarossa defeated, Italian autonomy
established |
|
|
|
|
| 1185 |
|
Japan |
AS |
Kamakura Period: feudalism |
|
1333 |
|
|
|
| 1187 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
Hattin destruction of Latin Kingdom of
Jerusalem by Saladin |
|
|
|
|
| 1189 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
3rd
Crusade by Frederick Barbarossa, Philip Augustus of France and Richard the
Lionheart of England |
|
|
|
| 1194 |
Chartres |
France |
E |
Cathedral, Lower parts 1130 |
|
1260 |
|
|
|
| 1195 |
Bourges |
France |
E |
Cathedral of St Étienne |
|
1250 |
|
|
|
| 1200 |
Tula |
Mexico |
LA |
Temple Complex |
|
before |
|
|
|
| 1200 |
Ypres |
Belgium |
E |
Cloth Hall |
|
1620 |
|
|
|
| 1200 |
Angkor Thom |
Cambodia |
AS |
BayonTemple |
|
1225 |
|
|
|
| 1200 |
Somnathpur |
India |
AS |
Keshavatemple |
|
1300 |
|
|
|
| 1200 |
Granada |
Spain |
E |
Alhambra |
|
1400 |
|
|
|
| 1204 |
Istanbul |
Turkey |
ME |
4th Crusade captures city |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1206 |
|
Central Asia |
AS |
Temujin proclaimed Gengiz Khan (very mighty
King) of all the Mongols |
|
|
|
|
| 1215 |
|
England |
E |
Magna Carta extorted by Barons from King John |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1215 |
Como |
Italy |
E |
Palazzo del Broletto |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1215 |
Rome |
|
E |
Dominican monastic order recognized by the Pope |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1220 |
Salisbury |
England |
E |
Cathedral |
Elias de
Dereham & Nicholas of Ely |
1258 |
|
|
|
| 1220 |
Amiens |
France |
E |
Cathedral of Notre Dame |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1223 |
Assisi |
Italy |
E |
Franciscan monastic order recognized by Pope |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1229 |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
ME |
Frederick II recognized by Moslems as King of
Jerusalem |
|
|
|
|
| 1230 |
Prussia |
Germany |
E |
Teutonic knight established |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1237 |
|
Russia |
E/AS |
Gloden Horde, Mongol subjugation of Russia |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1241 |
|
Central Europe |
E |
Mongol Incursions |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1243 |
Paris |
France |
E |
Ste Chapelle |
|
1248 |
|
|
|
| 1250 |
|
Egypt |
AF |
Mamelukes become rulers |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1250 |
|
Egypt |
AF |
St Louis of France (Louis IX) captured on his
Crusade in Egypt |
|
|
|
|
| 1250 |
|
Mali |
AF |
Mandingo King declares independence from Ghana
and embraces Islam |
|
|
|
|
| 1256 |
Lincoln |
England |
E |
Cathedral, Angel Choir |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1258 |
Baghdad |
Iraq |
ME |
Destroyed by Mongols |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1260 |
|
China |
AS |
Kublai Kahn rules |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1263 |
Salisbury |
England |
E |
Chapter House |
|
1284 |
|
|
|
| 1274 |
|
France |
E |
Death of Thomas Aquinas |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1278 |
Florence |
Italy |
E |
Sta Maria Novella |
|
1350 |
|
|
|
| 1281 |
|
Japan |
AS |
Repulse of Mongol attack |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1285 |
Cairo |
Egypt |
AF |
Mausoleum of Sultan Qala'un |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1285 |
Beauvais |
France |
E |
Cathedral of St Pierre, originally beg. 1225 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1290 |
|
England |
E |
Expulsion of Jews |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1291 |
Acre |
Israel |
ME |
Falls to Moslem, end of the Crusades |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1294 |
|
England |
E |
Death of Roger Bacon, early practicioner of
experimental science |
|
|
|
|
| 1295 |
|
England |
E |
Model Parliament of Edward I |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1295 |
Florence |
Italy |
E |
S Croce |
Arnolfo di Cambio? |
|
|
|
|
| 1296 |
Florence |
Italy |
E |
Cathedral of S Maria del Fiore |
Arnolfo di Cambio |
|
|
|
|
| 1299 |
Florence |
Italy |
E |
Palazzo Vecchio |
|
1314 |
|
|
|
| 1300 |
Wells |
England |
E |
Cathedral |
|
1350 |
|
|
|
| 1300 |
Tenayuca |
Mexico |
LA |
Tenayuca pyramid |
|
1500 |
|
|
|
| 1300 |
Mistra |
Greece |
E |
Brontocheion, Monastic Church |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1300 |
Mantua |