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Hatch Dates
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| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| 106–43 BC | Life of Cicero |
| 63 BC–14 AD | Life of Augustus |
| 31 BC | Battle of Actium |
| 29 BC–19 BC | Virgil begins the composition of *The Aeneid*, “Pax Romana” |
| 27 BC | Building of Pantheon |
| 13–9 BC | Commissioning of Altar, 13 BC; Dedication of Ara Pacis (January 30, 9 BC) |
| 4 BC–65 AD | Life of Seneca |
| 14 | Death of Augustus Caesar |
| 64 | Burning of Rome |
| 68 | Deaths of Peter and Paul |
| 284–305 | Reign of Diocletian |
| 293 | Diocletian divides the Empire into East and West |
| 293–373 | Life of Athanasius |
| 312 | Battle of Milvian Bridge |
| 313 | Edict of Milan |
| 324 | Constantine moves capital to Constantinople |
| 325 | Council of Nicaea |
| 354–430 | Life of St. Augustine of Hippo |
| 410 | Alaric Sacks Rome |
| 476 | Fall of Rome |
| 529 | Closing of Plato’s Academy; Opening of Benedict’s Monte Cassino |
| 527–565 | Justinian’s Reign of Byzantine Empire |
| 532 | Nika Revolt |
| 533 | Publication of *Codex Justinianus* |
| 537 | Dedication of Hagia Sophia |
| 632 | Muhammad’s Death |
| 714–741 | Reign of Charles Martel |
| 732 | Battle of Tours |
| 762 | Founding of Baghdad |
| 768–814 | Reign of Charlemagne |
| 800 | Crowning of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope on Christmas Day |
| 910 | Founding of Abbey at Cluny |
| 919–936 | Reign of Henry the Fowler |
| 962 | Otto the Great Crowned H.R.E. (first since Charlemagne) |
| 987–996 | Capetian Dynasty begins with Hugh Capet |
| 1019–1054 | Reign of Kievan Russia’s Yaraslav the Wise (helped bind Russia to Orthodox Catholicism and Constantinople’s Patriarch) |
| 1024–1125 | Franconian Dynasty |
| 1054 | The Great Schism |
| 1066 | Battle of Hastings, Norman Conquest |
| 1096–1099 | First Crusade |
| 1122 | Concordat of Worms |
| 1125–1268 | Hohenstaufen Dynasty |
| 1152–1190 | Reign of Frederick Barbarossa |
| 1154–1399 | Plantagenet Dynasty, beginning with reign of Henry II, ending with deposition of Richard II |
| 1155–1227 | Life of Genghis Khan |
| 1204–1206 | Fourth Crusade |
| 1215 | Magna Carta |
| 1226–1270 | Reign of Saint King Louis IX |
| 1285–1314 | King Philip the Fair |
| 1302 | Pope Boniface VIII publishes papal bull *Unam Sanctam* |
| 1305–1378 | Avignon Papacy (a.k.a. the Babylonian Captivity) |
| 1328 | Royal House of Valois begins |
| 1337–1453 | Hundred Years’ War |
| 1399–1461 | House of Lancaster (red rose) Dynasty, followed by York (white rose) |
| 1402 | San Giovanni Baptistery Competition |
| 1413–1422 | Reign of Henry V of England (and France) |
| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt |
| 1422–1461 | Reign of Charles VII |
| 1431 | Joan of Arc burned at the stake |
| 1453 | Fall of Constantinople, end of Byzantine Empire |
| 1455–1485 | War of the Roses |
| 1483–1485 | Reign of Richard III – (Lancaster vs white-York) |
| 1509 | Erasmus publishes Encomium Moriae |
| 1509-1564 | Life of John Calvin |
| 1513 | Machiavelli publishes *The Prince* |
| 1516 | Concordat of Bologna |
| 1516 | Thomas More publishes *Utopia* |
| 1517 | Martin Luther publishes his Ninety-Five Theses |
| 1520 | Luther declared a heretic |
| 1521 | Diet of Worms |
| 1530 | Augsburg Confession |
| 1531 | Schmalkaldic League formed |
| 1535 | Thomas More beheaded by order of Henry VIII |
| 1545–1563 | Council of Trent |
| 1555 | Peace of Augsburg (cuius regio, eius religio) |
| 1558–1603 | Reign of Queen Elizabeth |
| 1571 | Battle of Lepanto |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada sunk by so-called “Protestant Winds” |
| 1599–1658 | Life of Oliver Cromwell |
| 1604 | King James Bible developed |
| 1605 | Gunpowder Plot, Nov. 5 “Guy Fawkes Day” |
| 1611 | The Apology of the House of Commons |
| 1618–1648 | Thirty Years’ War, ending with Peace of Westphalia |
| 1619–1683 | Life of Jean Baptiste Colbert (mercantilism’s French champion) |
| 1621 | The Great Protestation |
| 1628 | The Petition of Right |
| 1641 | The Grand Remonstrance and Charles I’s violation of the House of Commons |
| 1643–1715 | Louis XIV |
| 1646 | Battle of Naseby |
| 1649 | Execution of King Charles |
| 1653–1659 | Cromwell’s Protectorate |
| 1659 | The Restoration |
| 1673 | Clarendon Code’s Test Act not lifted until 1828 and 1829 |
| 1688 | The Glorious Revolution |
| 1689 | Toleration Act, English Bill of Rights |
| 1689–1702 | King William of Orange (William and Mary) |
| 1704 | Battle of Blenheim |
| 1704 | Battle of Gibraltar |
| 1712–1778 | Life of Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| 1713 | The Treaty (beginning the Peace) of Utrecht |
| 1769–1821 | Life of Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 1789 | Fall of the Bastille, July 14 |
| 1793 | Louis XVI and his Queen Marie Antoinette executed |
| 1794 | Maximilian Robespierre executed |
| 1812 | Invasion of Russia |
| 1815 | Battle of Waterloo |
| 1818 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes *Frankenstein* |
| 1859 | Charles Dickens publishes *Tale of Two Cities* |
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