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476
Fall Of Rome, Visgoths sack rome
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Jan 1, 633
Aidan founds the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria
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Feb 1, 1066
End of Viking period/battle of Stanford bridge
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Sep 25, 1066
Harold II defeats and kills Harald Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
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Oct 14, 1066
William of Normandy defeats and kills Harold II at Hastings
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Dec 25, 1066
William of Normandy is crowned king of England
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Jan 1, 1077
Bayeux Tapestry illustrating the Battle of Hastings is completed
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Sep 18, 1087
William the Conqueror dies at Rouen, Normandy
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Jan 1, 1095
First Crusade 1095–1099
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Jan 1, 1096
Oxford University is founded
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Jan 1, 1147
Second Crusade 1147–1149
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Jan 1, 1187
Third Crusade 1187–1192
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Jan 1, 1202
Fourth Crusade 1202–1204
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Feb 15, 1215
The Magna Carta
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Jan 1, 1217
Fifth Crusade 1217–1221
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Jan 1, 1228
Sixth Crusade 1228–1229
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Jan 1, 1248
Seventh Crusade 1248–1254
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Jan 1, 1270
Eighth Crusade 1270
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Jan 1, 1271
Ninth Crusade 1271–1272
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Jan 1, 1315
Millions die in the Great European Famine
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May 24, 1337
Hundred Years' War between England and France begins
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Jan 1, 1346
Black Death arrived from China from Venice
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Jul 7, 1348
'Black Death' enters Britain
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Aug 31, 1422
Henry VI becomes king of England and France before his first birthday
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May 22, 1445
Wars of the Roses begin with first Battle of St Albans
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Jan 1, 1477
William Caxton publishes the first printed book in England
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Aug 22, 1485
Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth
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Vikings attack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria
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First recorded Viking attack happens in Dorset
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Vikings attack the island monastery of Iona, Scotland
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Augustine arrives in Kent and begins the conversion of England
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Edmund of England is stabbed to death in a brawl