Timeline
Timeline
800................................................... Coronation of Charlemagne (742–814).
840................................................... Death of Louis the Pious,
Charlemagne’s successor, and outbreak
of a war of succession.
962................................................... Coronation of Otto I, ¿ rst emperor of
the Holy Roman Empire.
c. 1000í1160 ................................... Period of Romanesque architecture.
1066................................................. Norman conquest of England at the
Battle of Hastings; work begins on the
Bayeux Tapestry.
1096 í1099 ...................................... First Crusade.
1147 í1149 ....................................... Second Crusade.
c. 1160í1500 ................................... Gothic style in art and architecture,
exempli¿ ed by Notre Dame Cathedral
(1163í1250).
1189 í1192 ....................................... Third Crusade.
1194 í1220 ...................................... Rebuilding of Chartres Cathedral after it
was destroyed by ¿ re in 1194; the new
structure is a masterpiece of the full
Gothic style.
1200................................................. Rebuilding of Rouen Cathedral begun
after its destruction by ¿ re.
1202 í1204 ...................................... Fourth Crusade.
c. 1260 ............................................. Golden Legend written by Jacobus
de Voragine.