Chronological Outline

Date		Events
1073		Accession of St. Gregory VII.
1077		Henry IV. at Canossa.
1096		First Crusade.
1099		Jerusalem taken.
1109		† St. Anselm—Archbishop of Canterbury.
1123		Ninth General Council—Lateran I. Investitures. Canonical Elections.
1139		Tenth General Council—Lateran II. Disciplinary Canons enacted.
1147		Second Crusade.
1153		† Death of St. Bernard.
1170		† Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket.
1179		Eleventh General Council—Lateran III. Affairs of Ecclesiastics. Heresies of Cathari, Albigenses, etc., condemned.
1189		Third Crusade.
1202		Fourth Crusade. Latin Empire of Constantinople founded.
1213		Twelfth General Council—Lateran IV. Albigenses condemned. Paschal communion ordered.
1213		England a fief of Holy See.
1218		Fifth crusade.
1221		† St. Dominic.
1226		† St. Francis of Assisi.
1228		Sixth Crusade.
1229		End of Albigensian War. Foundation of Inquisition.
1245		Thirteenth General Council—1st Lyons—Crusade determined on. Reunion of Greeks, etc.
1248		Seventh Crusade.
1270		Eighth Crusade.
1274		Fourteenth General Council—2nd Lyons—same as above. † St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure.
1300		First Jubilee.
1309		Popes at Avignon.
1311		Fifteenth General Council—Vienne—Knights Templars suppressed. Condemnation of Beghards, Beguines, etc.
1348		Black Death.
1375		Turks masters of all Greek Empire, except Constantinople.
1376		Return of Popes to Rome, Wyclif begins to preach heresy.
1378		Schism of the West.
1380		† St. Catherine of Siena.
1408		John Huss and his disciples join Wyclifites.
1414		Sixteenth General Council—Constance—Termination of Western Schism. Wyclifism condemned.
1431		† St. Joan of Arc burnt.
1439		Seventeenth General Council—Florence. Reunion of Greeks.
1444		Battle of Varna fatal to Greek Empire.
1453		Constantinople taken by the Turks.
1482		Final victory of Spaniards over Moors.
1492		America discovered.
1498		† Savonarola.