4799–5249 AM · 1039 CE — 1489 CE
Rishonim: the Middle Ages
66 events of Jewish history and world parallels.
4800 · 1040 CERashi and His Commentary on the Bible and Talmud4814 · 1054 CEThe Great Schism4815 · 1055 CEThe Seljuks: Baghdad, Manzikert and Nizam al-Mulk4826 · 1066 CEThe Granada massacre: the end of a vizier and the first slaughter in Muslim Spain4850 · 1090 CEUnetaneh Tokef: the tradition of Rabbi Amnon and the copies older than it4856 · 1096 CEThe First Crusade4856 · 1096 CEThe First Crusade and the Massacres in the Rhineland4860 · 1100 CEThe School of the Tosafists and Rabbeinu Tam4886 · 1126 CEIbn Rushd and Aristotle in Arabic4890 · 1130 CEThe merchants of Aden: Yemen between Egypt and India4898 · 1138 CEThe Birth of Maimonides and the Years of Wandering4900 · 1140 CEYehuda HaLevi and the Kuzari4904 · 1144 CEThe Second Crusade and the Birth of the Blood Libel: Norwich and Blois4908 · 1148 CEThe Almohads: the end of the golden age in Spain and the Maghreb4910 · 1150 CEGothic Cathedrals and the First Universities4923 · 1163 CEKaifeng: seven centuries of a community that told its story in stone4925 · 1165 CEBaghdad under Samuel ben Ali: the last great academy of the East4928 · 1168 CEBenjamin of Tudela in Baghdad and the end of the exilarchate4930 · 1170 CEThe Sivuv of Rabbi Petachiah: a circuit through Rus to the East4930 · 1170 CEChasidei Ashkenaz: the measure is not 'did he do it' but 'as if no one were watching'4932 · 1172 CEThe Epistle to Yemen: Maimonides answers Yemen4940 · 1180 CEThe Mishneh Torah of Maimonides4947 · 1187 CESaladin and the capture of Jerusalem4950 · 1190 CEThe Guide for the Perplexed and the Death of Maimonides4952 · 1192 CEThe rise of the shogunate in Japan4964 · 1204 CEThe Fourth Crusade4966 · 1206 CEThe Delhi Sultanate4966 · 1206 CEGenghis Khan and the Mongol Empire4975 · 1215 CEMagna Carta4992 · 1232 CEThe Maimonidean Controversy4997 · 1237 CEThe Mongol Invasion of Rus and Europe5001 · 1241 CEThe Hanseatic League5002 · 1242 CEThe Burning of the Talmud in Paris5010 · 1250 CEGreat Zimbabwe5018 · 1258 CEThe Mongols and the fall of Baghdad5020 · 1260 CEThe Mamluks and Ain Jalut5023 · 1263 CENachmanides and the Disputation of Barcelona5031 · 1271 CEThe Yuan dynasty and Marco Polo5044 · 1284 CESaʿd al-Dawla: a Jewish vizier of Mongol Iran, and the pogrom after his death5050 · 1290 CEThe Expulsions from England and from France5060 · 1300 CERabbi Menachem HaMeiri and the Beit HaBechirah5065 · 1305 CERabbeinu Asher (the Rosh) in Spain and his son's Arba'ah Turim5084 · 1324 CEMansa Musa and the Mali Empire5085 · 1325 CEThe Aztecs and Tenochtitlan5096 · 1336 CEVijayanagara: the "City of Victory" in southern India5097 · 1337 CEThe Hundred Years' War5107 · 1347 CEThe Black Death5108 · 1348 CEThe Black Death and the Massacres of 51085120 · 1360 CECustom becomes law: Ashkenaz writes itself down5130 · 1370 CETimur and Samarkand5137 · 1377 CEIbn Khaldun and the Muqaddimah5151 · 1391 CEThe Massacres of 5151 in Spain, Mass Conversions and the Disputation of Tortosa5160 · 1400 CEThe Renaissance5161 · 1401 CETimur in Baghdad: the real end of the Babylonian community5165 · 1405 CEMing China: Zheng He and the Forbidden City5189 · 1429 CEJoan of Arc5203 · 1443 CEHangul: a Korean king creates a script for the people5210 · 1450 CEThe Incas and Machu Picchu5210 · 1450 CEGutenberg's Printing Press5213 · 1453 CEKushta: where the exiles came, and whom they found there5213 · 1453 CEThe Ottomans and the fall of Constantinople5213 · 1453 CEThe Fall of Constantinople5225 · 1465 CEThe revolt in Fes: a Jewish vizier, an attack on the mellah, and the end of the Marinids5238 · 1478 CEThe Spanish Inquisition5241 · 1481 CEThe Inquisition in Spain5248 · 1488 CELetters from Jerusalem: what was there before the expulsion