The Human Chronicle: Volume III: 476 - 1749 AD
Volume III of 5. World history year by year from 476 to 1749 AD: Byzantium and the rise of Islam, the Viking Age, the Crusades, the Mongols, the Black Death, the Renaissance, and the Reformation.
The third volume of The Human Chronicle covers the Middle Ages and the early modern centuries in six sections. It opens with Justinian and the Nika riots in Constantinople, the Arthurian traditions of Britain, and Maelgwn of Gwynedd, records the Old High German Merseburg Incantations, and then follows Muhammad and the Hijra, the Tang dynasty, the Dome of the Rock, and Charlemagne.
The Viking Age receives particular attention, from the raid on Lindisfarne in 793 to Ragnar Lodbrok, Rurik and the founding of Novgorod, the settlement of Iceland and the Althing, Leif Erikson's voyages to Vinland, and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. Alfred the Great, the Danelaw, and the Battle of Hastings carry the English story; Owain Gwynedd and the princes of Wales, William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, and Bannockburn carry the Welsh and Scottish.
Beyond Europe, the volume covers Angkor Wat, Great Zimbabwe, the Song and Ming dynasties, Genghis Khan, the Seljuks and the Hashashin, the Ottoman Turks, the Aztecs, and the Mughal Empire. The Crusades, the founding and suppression of the Knights Templar, Magna Carta, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and Joan of Arc lead into Gutenberg, Columbus, Luther, the Thirty Years' War, the Mayflower, the Salem trials, Peter the Great, and Culloden. Feature entries mark the Cyrillic alphabet, the Younger Futhark, Old Norse, the Gregorian calendar, the Maunder Minimum, and the art periods from Romanesque to Rococo.
476 to 843 AD: Justinian, Arthur, Muhammad, the Tang, Charlemagne, the first Viking raids844 to 1201 AD: the Rus, Alfred, Iceland, Vinland, Hastings, the Crusades, the Templars1202 to 1499 AD: the Mongols, Magna Carta, Bannockburn, the Black Death, Gutenberg1500 to 1749 AD: Luther, the Mughals, the Thirty Years' War, colonial America, CullodenAbout the series: The Human Chronicle is a year-by-year timeline of world history in five volumes, from before 10,000 BC to 2025 AD. Each volume sets events from every region side by side in strict date order and gives the competing dates where the sources disagree. The complete timeline is also available as a single Kindle eBook.
About the author: Jeremy Jasper Owens is a writer, editor, and historian whose books cover Norse myth, the medieval sagas, and world history.
Written for readers of medieval and early modern history, for readers of the sagas and Viking history, for genealogists tracing medieval lines, and for students and teachers who want Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas in one sequence.
Continue with The Human Chronicle: Volume IV: 1750 - 1949 AD. Also by Jeremy Jasper Owens: Tales from the North, Norse myths, hero legends, and folk tales.
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