Medieval Timeline

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1066 to Dec 31, 1485

    Medieval Timeline

  • Aug 24, 1066

    1066 William the Conqueror invades England

    William laid claim to the English throne after Edward died. He was a distant cousin of Edward and said that Edward had promised him the throne when visiting France in 1051. He even said his claim had been accepted by Harold Godwinson in 1064, when Harold had been blown onto the Norman shore by a storm. William invaded England to become King and claim the throne from Harold.
  • Aug 23, 1150

    1150 Paper is first mass-produced in Spain

    Medieval paper was made of diluted cotton, linen fiber. The fibers are then intermixed with water and by the use of a sieve-like screen, the fibers are lifted from the water leaving a sheet of matted fiber on the screen. The thin layer of intertwined fiber is paper.
  • Aug 24, 1215

    1215 Magna Carta

    The Magna Carta was sealed by King John on June 15, 1215. However, the clauses that made up the document were reissued with changes many times throughout the later Middle Ages and into modern times.
  • Aug 24, 1348

    1348 The Plague

    The Black Death was the second plague pandemic of the Middle Ages. Justinian’s Plague in the sixth century was deadly and widespread, but did not create the same devastation as the second pandemic.
  • Aug 23, 1378

    1378 first appearance of Robin Hood in literature

    The Life of Robin Hood was set in the era when King Richard the Lionheart went to the crusades leaving his brother John as Regent. Robin Hood was a member of the Saxon nobility called Robin of Loxley and he fought at the crusades. He falls in love with Maid Marian and shows her how badly the Normans treat the Saxon English
  • Aug 23, 1387

    1387 Chaucer writes 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, 1455

    1455-1485 War of the Roses

    WARS OF THE ROSES,1 a name given to a series of civil wars in England during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. They were marked by a ferocity and brutality which are practically unknown in the history of English wars before and since.
  • Aug 23, 1485

    1485 first printing of Le Morte d'Arthur

    The first printing of Malory's work was made by Caxton.
  • Aug 24, 1570

    1270 end of the Crusades

    The story of the Crusades actually begins centuries before the First Crusade was launched in AD 1096

  • 1485 First Tudor king, Henry VII, is crowned

    Henry ended the dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses, founded the Tudor dynasty and modernised England's government and legal system.