1000–1300

High Middle Ages

Crusades, cathedrals, and the slow waking of Europe.

1330 events across 301 years

Turning points

1000North AmericaExploration

Leif Erikson makes landfall in Vinland

1000High Middle Ages

1000OceaniaExploration

Polynesians settle the last Pacific islands

1000High Middle Ages

1000North AmericaCulture

Cahokia begins its great expansion

1000High Middle Ages

1020Central AsiaScience

Avicenna begins the Canon of Medicine

1020High Middle Ages

1021Middle EastScience

Ibn al-Haytham writes the Book of Optics

1021High Middle Ages

1023East AsiaTechnology

Jiaozi paper money issued in Sichuan

1023High Middle Ages

1025South AsiaWar

Chola naval expedition to Sumatra

1025High Middle Ages

1025Southeast AsiaWar

Rajendra Chola's fleet strikes Srivijaya

1025High Middle Ages

1040East AsiaTechnology

Bi Sheng invents movable-type printing

1040High Middle Ages

1044East AsiaTechnology

Wujing Zongyao military encyclopedia completed

1044High Middle Ages

1048East AsiaDisaster

Yellow River catastrophically shifts course again

1048High Middle Ages

1054EuropeReligion

Great Schism between Rome and Constantinople

July 16, 1054High Middle Ages

1088EuropeCulture

University of Bologna traditionally founded

1088High Middle Ages

1095EuropeReligion

Council of Clermont calls the First Crusade

November 27, 1095High Middle Ages

1099Middle EastWar

Jerusalem falls to the First Crusade

July 15, 1099High Middle Ages

1133AfricaScience

Al-Idrisi begins his world map for Roger II

1133High Middle Ages

1134Southeast AsiaCulture

Angkor Wat nears completion

1134High Middle Ages

1135AfricaReligion

Maimonides born at Cordoba

1135High Middle Ages

1138Middle EastDisaster

Aleppo earthquake

October 1138High Middle Ages

1150Southeast AsiaCulture

Suryavarman II completes Angkor Wat

1150High Middle Ages

1162Central AsiaPolitics

Genghis Khan born on the Onon River

1162High Middle Ages

1170EuropeReligion

Murder of Thomas Becket

December 29, 1170High Middle Ages

1193South AsiaDisaster

Bakhtiyar Khalji sacks Nalanda

1193High Middle Ages

1205South AsiaPolitics

Qutb-ud-din Aibak crowned in Delhi

1205High Middle Ages

1206Central AsiaPolitics

Temujin proclaimed Genghis Khan at the Onon

1206High Middle Ages

1215EuropePolitics

Magna Carta sealed at Runnymede

June 15, 1215High Middle Ages

1219Central AsiaWar

Mongols invade the Khwarazmian Empire

1219High Middle Ages

1235AfricaPolitics

Sundiata founds the Mali Empire at Kirina

1235High Middle Ages

1258Middle EastWar

Mongols sack Baghdad

February 10, 1258High Middle Ages

1260Middle EastWar

Mamluks defeat Mongols at Ain Jalut

September 3, 1260High Middle Ages

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