Talk:Pre-1400
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Pre-1400 1500s
Events
- 8000 BCE (approximate): Neolithic Revolution; Humans domesticate plants and animals allowing them to form cities. Writing develops.
- 1780 BCE (approximate): Hammurabi Code
- c700 BCE: Greeks develop polis or city-state.
- 560 BCE: Gautama (Buddha) is born.
- 510 BCE: Democracy emerges in Athens.
- 450 BCE: 1st written legal code in Rome(Law of the 12 Tables).
- 228 BCE: Corfu becomes a Roman protectorate.
- 259 BCE: Emperor Qin is born.
- 210 BCE: Emperor Qin dies.
- 206 BCE: Han Dynasty established in China.
- 55 BCE: First Roman invasion of Britain under Julius Ceasar. Temporary occupation.
- 6 BCE (approximate): Jesus born.
- 43 CE: Roman invasion and permanent occupation of Britain under Emperor Claudius. British Celts below Hadrains Wall eventually become Romanized.
- 220 CE: Han Dynasty falls.
- 238 CE: Himiko dispatches mission from Japan to the HQ of the Wei Dynasty in China.
- 313 CE: Battle of Milvian Bridge.
- 317 CE: Estern Jin Dynasty established in China.
- 362-363 CE: reign of last pagan and former christian Roman Emperor Julian, author of Contra Galilaeos.
- 388 CE: Christian mob led by their bishop destroys Jewish synogogue in Callinicum.
- 395 CE: Last Olympic Games held until modern era. Christians disapprove.
- 410 CE: Goths sack Rome for the first time.
- 420: Eastern Jin Dynasty falls.
- 476 CE: Western Roman Empire falls.
- 449 CE: Anglo-Saxon invasion/settlement of Britain begins.
- 529 CE: Plato's Academy in Athens closed by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian (527-565) and the philosophers flee to Persia. Justinian ends legal toleration of religions and philosophies competing with Christianity. Paganism driven underground and into the countryside. Dark ages begin to fall across the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire as well.
- 532 CE: Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian (527-565) issues Corpus Juris Civilis (future basis for Roman Law).
- 628 CE: Suiko dies.
- 645 CE: Taika coup.
- 680 CE: Violent Islamic succession crisis, Ali's son Hussein killed in Karbala, an event now commemorated by the Shiites as the holiday of Ashura.
- New Year's Day 702 CE: Taiho Code issued.
- 718 CE: Taiho Code updated as the Yoro Code.
- 720 CE Nihon shoki or "Chronicle of Japan" compiled.
- 730s CE: Great Smallpox Epidemic in Japan.
- 759 CE: Man'yoshi appeared: 4,500 poems in first Japanese poetry compilation.
- 800 CE: Charlemagne crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope.
- August 846 CE: Arab army burns one of the suburbs of Rome and sacks St. Peter's Basilica, stealing holy relics and vandalizing St. Peter's grave.
- 865 CE: Danes occupy Northumbria.
- 1053 CE: Fujiwara no Yorimichi builds Phoenix Hall of Byodoin.
- 1066: Battle of Hastings, Norman French invasion and conquest of Britain begins.
- 1075 CE: Start of Investiture Controversy between Popes & Holy Roman Emperors (Church vs. State jurisdiction over bishops).
- 1086 CE: Domesday Book reveals one-fifth of all wealth in England is controlled by the Church.
- 1096-1099 CE: First Crusade.
- 1113-1145: Angkor Wat is contructed under the rule of Suryavarman II to honor the Hindu god Vishnu and celebrate unification of the Angkorian Empire.
- 1135: Wakamiyasha constructed to enshrine the god of nature of holy Mt. Kasuga.
- 1147-1149 CE: Second Crusade.
- 1177: Chams invade and pillage Angkor.
- 1178: Chams invade and pillage Angkor.
- 1189-1192 CE: Third Crusade.
- 1197: Kasuga-taisha built in Nara, commissioned by the head of the Fujuwara clan.
- 1200s CE: Hojo Regents become dominant in Japan.
- 1204: King John loses Normandy to France crown.
- 1306 CE: Jews expelled from France.
- 1347-1351 CE: Black Death (probably Bubonic Plague); between 1349-1350: the plague kills one-third of British population.
- 1354: Alhambra constructed in Granada.
- 1380: Muscovite Prince Dmitry Donskoy refuses to pay taxes demanded by the Tatars. Muscovy grows in wealth and power.
- 1384: Wyclif publishes English translation of the Bible, affords new opportunities to kill in the name of religion.
- 1387: Timur or Tamerlane conquers Damascus. Mountain of skulls.
- 1388: Geoffrey Chaucer begins The Canterbury Tales.
- 1391: Religiously inspired mass atrocity against the Jews of Seville, in Spain: Guerra santa contra los Judios.
- 1476: William Caxton publishes The Morte d'Arthur.
- March 31: 1492: Formal Edict of Expulsion, forcing Jews to convert or leave Sapin.
- 1492: Faux Genoese, actual Catalan Cristobol Columbus re-discovers the Western Hemisphere, local inhabitants aware of its existence for 20,000 years.

