My luminous stream by https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j Made with big dreams en-us 2019-01-04 20:49:11 UTC 2026-02-27 01:41:41 UTC hello@padlet.com 1st Crusade - 1095 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317547599 The First Crusade was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095. Urban called for a military expedition to aid the Byzantine Empire, which had recently lost most of Anatolia to the Seljuq Turks. 

]]> 2019-01-04 23:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317547599 2nd Crusade - 1145 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317547828 The Second Crusade was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 to the forces of Zengi. The county had been founded during the First Crusade by King Baldwin of Boulogne in 1098.]]> 2019-01-04 23:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317547828 3rd Crusade - 1189 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317547866 The Third Crusade was launched to retake Jerusalem after its fall to the Muslim leader Saladin in 1187 CE. The Crusade was led by three European monarchs, hence its other name of 'the Kings' Crusade'. The three leaders were Frederick I Barbarossa, King of Germany, and Holy Roman Emperor.]]> 2019-01-04 23:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317547866 4th Crusade - 1202 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548125 The Fourth Crusade was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem, by first conquering the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate, the strongest Muslim nation of the time.]]> 2019-01-04 23:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548125 Magna Carta is Signed - 1215 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548267 Signed on 15 June by King John of England in Runnymede, Surrey, Magna Carta was meant as a peace treaty between King John and his subjects, and demanded that every person had to obey the law, including the king.]]> 2019-01-04 23:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548267 100 Year War - 1337 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548373 The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the French House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France. Each side drew many allies into the war.]]> 2019-01-04 23:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548373 Renaissance Begins - 1350 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548436
The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century, the Renaissance promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art.
]]> 2019-01-04 23:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548436 Great Schism - 1054 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548856 The Western Schism, also called Papal Schism, Great Occidental Schism and Schism of 1378, was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 in which two, since 1410 even three, men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, having excommunicated one another.]]> 2019-01-04 23:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548856 Charlemagne Crowned King - 481 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548939 Clovis becomes king of the Franks. Clovis united most of the Frankish tribes that were part of Roman Province of Gaul.]]> 2019-01-04 23:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317548939 Spanish Inquisition - 1478 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317549039 The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition, was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. ]]> 2019-01-04 23:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317549039 Vikings Attack Europe - 835 A.D. jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317549110 Just as Christian Europe had settled down after the barbarian invasions, followed by the onslaught of Islamic armies, a new wave of barbarian invaders came from the north in the form of the Vikings. The Vikings launched an early attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne on a small island off the East coast of England.]]> 2019-01-04 23:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/317549110 Black Plague - 1347 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/318080545 The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. ]]> 2019-01-07 20:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/318080545 Feudalism Begins - 476 A.D. jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/318086863 Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.]]> 2019-01-07 20:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/318086863 Charlemagne Crowned Holy Roman - 800 A.D. jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/318088701 Charlemagne is crowned emperor - December 25, 800. Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king, Charlemagne, Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day, 800 in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, making him the most powerful ruler of his time. In November 799, Charlemagne (ca. 747 - 814) set out for Rome.]]> 2019-01-07 20:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/318088701 The Holy Roman Empire Falls - 476 jedlund3 https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/318090644 In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more.]]> 2019-01-07 20:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jedlund3/gvnf4jr78u6j/wish/318090644