Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion

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Chronology

789 Beginning of the Viking Expansion

c. 801–866 Al-Kindi, Islamic philosopher

c. 870–950 Al-Farabi, Islamic philosopher

962 The Holy Roman Empire is established

980–1037 Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Islamic philosopher

1017–1137 Ramanuja, founder of Vishishtadvaita Vedanta Hinduism

1033–1109 St. Anselm of Canterbury

1059–1111 Al-Ghazali, Islamic philosopher

1079–1142 Peter Abélard

1101–1164 Héloïse

1126–1198 Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Islamic philosopher

1135–1204 Moses Maimonides

c.1181–1226 St. Francis of Assisi

1214–1292 Roger Bacon

1215 Magna Carta signed

1221–1274 Bonaventure of Bagnoregio

1221–1327 Mongol Invasion of India

1225–1274 Thomas of Aquinas

1254–1324 Marco Polo

1265–1321 Dante Alighieri

c. 1266–1308 Duns Scotus

c. 1285–c. 1349 William of Ockham

c. 1299 Birth of the Ottoman Empire

c. 1304–c. 1576 The Renaissance

c. 1308–1321 Dante writes the Divine Comedy

1337 The Hundred Years War begins

c. 1400–64 Nicholas of Cusa

1433–99 Marsilio Ficino

1440 Guttenberg invents the printing press

1453 Constantinople falls to the Ottomans, ending the Byzantine era

1466–1536 Desiderius Erasmus

1469–1527 Niccolò Machiavelli

1478–1535 Thomas More

1483–1546 Martin Luther

1492 Columbus’ Voyage; The expulsion of the Jews from Spain

1498 Leonardo DaVinci paints The Last Supper

1509–1564 John Calvin

1513 Machiavelli writes Il Principe

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