Rise & Fall

1412- Joan of Arc. She was a girl who believed that the Voice of god had spoken to her and persuaded her to tell Charles that if he can fight his way to Reims to be consecrated, France will have a king.
793- Vikings invasion- They came in small groups on Longboats which could be used for surprise attacks. The Vikings would terrorize and defeat local armies in Ireland, Scotland and Conquered Half of England, and moved on to other European Countries and attacked along the coast.

866- The Viking army attacked on November 1 866. The Viking army spent the winter on the Tyne and had to recapture York in March 867.
1066- In 1066, the Anglo Saxon King Harold defeated a Viking army. The Viking age ended.

802- Jayavarman II was the 9th century king of Cambodia, as the founder of Khmer which ruled a lot of the Southeast Asian land for more than 600 years
1431- The Khmer Empire ended because of conquest.

1462- Mehmed II begins to build his Palace, Topkapi Palace. The palace was a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments.
1473- Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed II defeated Uzun Hasan. But the Ottoman army was using the latest technology. They came with rifles and cannons.

1456- Earthquake struck Naples. Over 35,000 people died.
1452-Leonardo da Vinci was born. He was an engineer, a painter, a musician, a geologist, an anatomist, a scientist, a mathematician, acartographist, a botanist, a writer, an inventor, a sculptor, and an architect.