Medieval Timeline

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  • Aug 24, 1066

    William the Conqueror invades England

    The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands and by difficulties with his eldest son.
  • Aug 24, 1150

    Paper's first mass-produced 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, 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

    The crusades, judged by what they set out to accomplish, must be accounted an inglorious failure. After two hundred years of conflict, after a vast expenditure of wealth and human lives, the Holy Land remained in Moslem hands.
  • Aug 24, 1348

    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, 1378

    First appearance of Robin Hood in literature

  • Aug 24, 1387

    Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales

    1387 Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales start in Europe. is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.
  • Aug 24, 1455

    War of the Roses

    1455-1485 The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic wars fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York (whose heraldic symbols were the "red" and the "white" rose, respectively) for the throne of England.
  • Aug 24, 1485

    First printing of Le Morte d'Arthur

    1485 first printing of Le Morte d’Arthur.is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Tab.
  • Aug 24, 1485

    First Tudor King, Henry VII, is crowned

    1485-First Tudor king, Henry VII, is crowned. The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was a European royal house of Welsh origin[1] that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including the Lordship of Ireland, later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603.