Timeline charts · 147 events · 13011500

Late Middle Ages — 1301 to 1500

Plague, papal schism, and the seeds of nation-states. The whole era as one printed chronology, sectioned by century.

Late Middle Ages — 1301 to 1500

147 events · 13011500 · Saeculum · sample of the first 8 rows

Late Middle Ages — 1301 to 1500. Plague, papal schism, and the seeds of nation-states. The whole era as one printed chronology, sectioned by century.
DateEventRegionTheme
1300–1399
Nov 1301Charles of Valois enters FlorenceEuropePolitics
Jul 1302Golden Spurs: Flemish militia break French chivalryEuropeWar
Nov 1302Unam Sanctam: papal absolutism at full stretchEuropeReligion
Sep 1303The slap at AnagniEuropePolitics
Jul 1304Petrarch is born in ArezzoEuropeCulture
Jun 1305Clement V elected, papacy pulled toward FranceEuropeReligion
1307Dante begins the Divine Comedy in exileEuropeCulture
Oct 1307Templars arrested across France at dawnEuropeReligion

Covers the Late Middle Ages, 1301–1500. Shows the 147 events scored 8 or higher for significance out of the 4992-event Saeculum corpus. Everything below that line — and every event on this sheet — is free to read in full on its own year and event page.

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