711 AD - "Moors" is a term for the Muslims from North Africa, of Arab or Berber descent, who conquered the Iberian Peninsula within 8 years of their invasion in 711 AD.
1000 AD - According to Dalby, "by the year 1000, [the growing of sugar] had reached the Middle East and the coast of East Africa."
1325 - In 1325, an African explorer named Ibn Battuta began a journey of tens of thousands of miles. It was almost thirty years before his travels ended, and by that time he had visited countless kingdoms and empires of medieval Africa
1492 - In 1492, after holding power for 28 years, Sii Ali died while returning home from another military campaign. He was succeeded by his son Sii Baru, who only ruled for five months before he was deposed by a stronger leader.
1500 - The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) covers recent published articles in all aspects of medieval studies within the range c.450 to 1500 AD.
1991 - How did Malcolm X, jazz master Duke Ellington, author Alexandre Dumas or medieval African king Askiya Muhammad use the principles emphasized by the celebration? With Kwanzaa, anything African- American is fair game. Although Kwanzaa is celebrated by families, many community ...
1994 - George Washington, Einstein and the US Constitution have been ruthlessly stricken from the inventory; dozens of obscure female poets, medieval African kings and degenerate rock stars have been added on.
1999 - "Timeline" combines all the ingredients that make Crichton's books compulsive reading: a fast-paced story, a hefty dollop of scientific.
2000 - Contributed by J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. (rosserjb@jmu.edu) on April 19, 2000. This will start as aa normal sparring-match with Ricardo Duchesne.
2002 - Viewers of the total solar eclipse in Southern Africa early on Wednesday have also had their eyes opened by second startling event - newly released evidence that a medieval African site was an astronomical observatory.
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