c. 1150 First European paper produced; the technique arrives via Italian ports with active commercial relations with the Arab world and also, probably, by the overland route from Spain to France.

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  • Aug 24, 1066

    William the conqueror

    William the conqueror
    William the Conqueror and sometimes as William the Bastard was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. Descended from Viking raiders, he had been Duke of Normandy since 1035 under the title of William II. After a long struggle to establish his power, by 1060 his hold on Normandy was secure, and he launched the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
  • Aug 24, 1150

    First paper in Spain

    First paper in Spain
    In Spain, paper is first mass-produced; Muslim conquest of Spain brought paper making to Europe ...
  • Aug 24, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an English charter, originally issued in Latin in the year 1215, translated into vernacular-French as early as 1219, and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions.
  • Aug 24, 1270

    End of the Crusades

    End of the Crusades
    The crusading movement came to an end by the close of the thirteenth century. The emperor Frederick II for a short time recovered Jerusalem by a treaty, but in 1244 A.D. the Holy City became again a possession of the Moslems. They have never since relinquished it. Acre, the last Christian post in Syria, fell in 1291 A.D.
  • Aug 24, 1348

    The Plague

    The Plague
    The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death.
  • Aug 24, 1387

    The Canterbury Tales

    The Canterbury Tales
    Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.
  • Aug 24, 1485

    Le Morte d'Arthur

    Le Morte d'Arthur
    Le Morte Darthur is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, The book interprets existing French and English stories about these figures, with some of Malory's own original material (the Gareth story). First published in 1485 by William Caxton.

  • Robin Hood

    Robin Hood
    The first allusion to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales occurs in William Langland's Piers Plowman (c. 1362–c. 1386) in which Sloth

  • First Tudor King, Henry VII

    First Tudor King, Henry VII
    Henry Tudor was the son of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort. The very fact that Henry Tudor became King of England at all is somewhat of a miracle. His claim to the English throne was tenuous at best. His father was a Welshman of Welsh royal lineage, but that was not too important as far as his claim to the English throne went.