Medieval World
Byzantium, Islamic Golden Age, Tang & Song China, feudal Europe.
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Aryabhata
476 CE – 550 CE
Mathematician · Astronomer
Justinian I
482 CE – 565 CE
Byzantine Emperor · Lawgiver of Rome
Empress Theodora
c. 500 CE – 548 CE
Byzantine Empress · Co-Sovereign
Prophet Muhammad
570 CE – 632 CE
Founder of Islam
Wu Zetian
624 CE – 705 CE
Empress Regnant · Founder of the Zhou Dynasty
Du Fu
712 CE – 770 CE
Tang Dynasty Poet · the Poet Sage (Shisheng)
Charlemagne
742 CE – 814 CE
Emperor
Al-Khwarizmi
c. 780 CE – 850 CE
Mathematician and astronomer
Murasaki Shikibu
c. 973 CE – 1,014 CE
Lady-in-Waiting · Author of The Tale of Genji
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
973 CE – 1,048 CE
Persian Polymath · Astronomer · Mathematician
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 CE – 1,037 CE
Polymath · Physician · Philosopher
William the Conqueror
c. 1,028 CE – 1,087 CE
Duke of Normandy · King of England · Architect of the Norman Conquest
Key events
Muhammad receives revelation; Islam is born.
Poetry, printing, cosmopolitan Chang'an.
Baghdad's House of Wisdom; algebra, astronomy, medicine.
Norse raids, trade, and exploration reach America.
A new Roman Empire in the West.
Technological flowering in China.
Two centuries of religious warfare reshape Eurasia.
The largest contiguous land empire in history.
Limits on royal power — a seed of constitutional government.
A third of Europe dies. Society is remade.
A vast treasure fleet sails to Africa.
Moveable type transforms knowledge forever.
Events and overlapping lifetimes are paginated below.