Vampire - The Dark Ages

A time line of events

This is just for starters much much more gets added to this.

  • 580 - 200 BC - Golden Age of Greek Science
  • Anno Domini
  • 4 AD - Birth of Jesus Christ
  • 313 - Emporer Constantine embraces Christianity in Rome
  • 389 - The Great Library of Alexandria burns.
  • 800 - Creation of the Western Roman Empire, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Roman Emperor
  • 1022 - Primus of House Tremere becomes a vampire, and founds clan Tremere - they hide this for another 150 years.
  • 1100 - 1300 - The Crusades
  • 1330-1420 - The Plague Years
  • 1420 - 1445 - Lodge Wars of Tuscany (various guilds, some human, some mages, fight throughout Northern Italy.
  • 1431 - Joan of Arc burned at stake. Henry VI of England crowned king of France
  • 1434 - Revolt in Rome. Pope Eugene IV flees to Florence.
  • 1435 - Founding of the Inquisition (Vampire hunters)
  • 1437 - Movable Type machine built (precurser to the printing press)
  • 1440 - The Mistridge Convocation (gathering of Mages) - Platonic Academy founded in Florence
  • 1441 - Portugese Slave Trade Established
  • 1443 - Plague in England
  • 1450 - Francesco Sforza becomes Duke of Milan, ceasing power from the Maria family. - Vatican Library founded
  • 1451 - 1506 - Christopher Columbus
  • 1452 - 1519 - Leaonardo da Vinci
  • 1453 - Constantinople fell to the forces of the Ottoman Turks under Mehmet II, end of the Eastern Roman Empire - French prevail in the Hundred Years War (England and France)
  • 1454 - The Gutenberg Bible is released
  • 1455 - 1485 - War of the Roses
  • 1457 - The Grand Convocation of Traditions - the nine taditions, formalise and unite, its pretty shakey alliance though.
  • 1464 - French Royal Mail Service established.
  • 1466 - The First Cabal is formed to further the traditions co-operation.
  • 1470 - First French Printing Press
  • 1478 - Spanish Inquisition begins persecuting Jews, Muslims and heretics.
  • 1480 - Lodovico Sforza seizes power in Milan
  • 1486 - The Formation of the Camarilla
  • 1490 - First Italian orphanages established.
  • 1500 - Beginning of High Renaissance (well what history will call)
  • 1512 - Copernicus claims the Earth revolves around the sun.
  • 1520 - Luther excommunicated for nailing bits of paper to doors
  • 1528 - First Manual on surgery. Die kleine Chirurgia by Paracelsus.
  • 1806 - Fall of the Western Roman Empire