Getting To Know Medieval Europe

  • 476

    Collapse of The Roman empire

  • 800

    Charlemagne is crowned emperor of Western Europe

  • 1042

    Edward the Confessor becomes King of England

  • 1066

    The Battle of Hastings

  • 1086

    The Domesday Book is compiled

  • 1096

    The First Crusade begins

  • 1099

    The Crusaders capture the city of Jerusalem

  • 1215

    The Magna Carta is signed by King John of England

  • 1315

    The Great Famine of Europe

  • 1337

    Start of the Hundred Years war between England and France

  • 1347

    The Black Death sweeps across Europe

  • 1450

    Johannes Gutenburg invents the first printing press