History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts 0 C.E. Jesus crucified Gospel of Matthew Chaitya Cave (33) (ca. 80–90) (ca. 50)
100 Ap uleius, Initiation into the Cult of Isis (ca. 155)
300 Edict of Milan Saint Ambrose, “Ancient Old Saint Peter’s basilica (313) Morning Hymn” (4th century) (ca. 380) Gupta empire The Good Shepherd (320–550) The Nicene Creed (ca. 300) (381) Council of Nicaea (326)
Byzantine empire (330–1453)
Battle of Adrianople (378)
400 The Visigoths attach Rome Saint Augustine, Confessions (410) (ca. 400)
The Vandals sack Rome Saint Augustine, City of God (455) against the Pagans (413–426) Fall of Rome (476)
500 Early Middle Ages Vishnu Purana San Vitale (ca. 500–1000) (recorded after 500) (ca. 526–547)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts Benedict established Plato’s academy closes Hagia Sophia monasticism (529) (532–537) (529) Emperor Justinian and His Courtiers Justinian codifies Roman law (ca. 547) (533) Empress Theodora and Retinue Era of regional states in India (ca. 547) (550–1192) Gregorian chant, “Alleluya, vidimus stellam” Birth of Muhammad (590–604) (570)
600 Tang dynasty Dome of the Rock (618–907) (ca. 687–691)
Umayyad caliphate (661–750)
700 Abbasid caliphate Beowulf (750–1258) (8th century)
Carolingian Empire (768–814)
Heian era (794–1185)
800 The Thousand and One Nights (ca. 850)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts Diamond Sutra (868)
Lindau Gospels (ca. 870)
900 Song dynasty “Alleluia, Justus et palma” (960–1279) (ca. 900–1150)
1000 Movable type invented The Diary of Lady Murasaki Great Mosque at Cordoba (1041) (ca. 1000) (11th century)
Norman conquest of England Vidyakara, Treasury of Well Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance (1066) Tuned Verse (11th century) (1050) Split between Roman Catholic Bayeux Tapestry and Greek Orthodox Church (late 11th century) (1094) Kandariya Mahadeo temple Major Christian Crusades (ca. 1000) (1095–1204)
1100 Kamakura shogunate Song of Roland Gislesbertus, Last Judgment (1185–1333) (12th century) (ca. 1130–1135)
Muslin conquests of Delhi Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias Hildegard of Bingen, O Successores (1192) (ca. 1146) (ca. 1150)
Bernart de Ventadour, “Can vei Chartres Cathedral la lauzeta mover” (begun 1194) (ca. 1150)
Chretien de Troyes, Lancelot (ca. 1170)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts 1200 Franciscan order established Pope Innocent III, On the Misery Notre Dame (1215) of the Human Condition (ca. 1200–1250) (ca. 1200) Magna Carta Comabue, Madonna Enthroned (1215) Rumi, poems (ca. 1280–1290) (ca. 1250) Mongols conquer Baghdad Sermon to the Birds (1258) Thomas Aquinas, Summa (ca. 1290) Theologica Mongol rule (1274) (1260–1368)
Marco Polo reaches China (ca. 1275)
1300 Ashikaga era Dante, Divine Comedy Simone Martini, Annunciation (1336–1573) (ca. 1308–1321) (1333)
1400 Zeami, Kadensho (1400)
1500 Everyman (ca. 1500)