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Period: Jan 1, 1065 to Dec 31, 1067
medieval goverments
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Jan 1, 1066
Edward the Confessor dies. Harold gambles and makes a bid for the Crown
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Mar 1, 1066
Tostig comes to Flanders looking for aid in his projected bid against Harold
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Mar 6, 1066
william starts to gather his forces
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May 3, 1066
Tostig makes an abortive attempt to invade England
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May 19, 1066
Harold calls out the English levy to defend against an expected thrust from William
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Sep 8, 1066
Harold has to disband the fyrd and let it go home to harvest its crops.
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Sep 20, 1066
Harald Hardrada and Tostig defeat the hastily assembled forces of Earls Edwin & Morcar at Fulford outside York.
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Sep 25, 1066
Harold scraps together a scratch force made up largely of his own housecarls and personal followers
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Sep 26, 1066
harold has marched 180 miles, and surprised the Norwegian army
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Sep 28, 1066
William's fleet makes landfall at Pevensey completely unopposed
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Oct 1, 1066
william is back in London and gathering what forces he could to face William
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Oct 14, 1066
Harold takes up a position blocking the Norman advance to London on Senlac Ridge at the site of Battle with an army of little more than 5,000 weary and footsore men.
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Oct 26, 1066
A state of war continues until Christmas