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Sep 28, 1066
William the Conqueror invades England
English throne at the Battle of Hastings. The Norman Conquest fuses French and English cultures because William is both the King of England and the Duke of Normandy. The language of England evolves into Middle English with an English syntax and grammar and a heavily French vocabulary. French art and literature prevail over previous English art and literature, and the French language eventually becomes the language of the political realm. William achieves political stability in England with the i -
Sep 3, 1150
Paper is first mass- produced in Spain
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Aug 23, 1215
Magna Carta
Pope Innocent III annulled the Magna Carta freeing King John from its limitations. The Pope annulled the charter on the grounds that the King only signed it because he was forced to and that the document was illegal. The Pope was prepared to support John against the rebel barons because he wanted him to take a key role in a new crusade. -
Aug 23, 1270
Political and Social Events
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Aug 23, 1348
The Plague
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350 -
Jan 1, 1378
first appearace of Robin Hood in literature
popular folk figure in the medieval period continuing through to modern literature, films and television. In the earliest sources, Robin Hood is a yeoman, but he was often later portrayed as an aristocrat wrongfully dispossessed of his lands and made into an outlaw by an unscrupulous sheriff. -
Aug 23, 1387
Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales
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Period: Aug 24, 1455 to Aug 24, 1485
Political
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Aug 23, 1485
first printing of Le Morte d'Arthur
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Aug 24, 1485
First Tudor king
Henry VII, is crowned