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Dec 5, 733
Charles Martel defeats the Moors at Tours
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Dec 5, 1059
The year the cardinals began to elect each new pope
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Dec 5, 1078
William the conqueror began his rule
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Dec 4, 1095
Pope Urban II calls for war
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Dec 5, 1097
first crusade begins
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Dec 5, 1122
Concordats of Worms
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Dec 5, 1147
Second Crusade begins
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Dec 5, 1170
Thomas Becket murdered
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Dec 5, 1176
Lombard League defeats Frederick
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Dec 5, 1187
salah al-Din recaptures Jerusalem
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Dec 5, 1189
third crusade begins
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Dec 5, 1212
Franciscan order founded
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Dec 5, 1212
Children's Crusade
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Dec 5, 1216
Magna Carta signed
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Dec 5, 1216
Dominican order founded
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Dec 5, 1265
Dante Alighieri born
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Dec 5, 1291
the last crusade when muslims captured acre
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Dec 4, 1337
Hundred Years War begins
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Dec 5, 1343
Geoffrey Chaucer born
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Dec 4, 1347
Black Death spreads into Europe
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Dec 5, 1415
Jan hus burned at the Stake
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Dec 5, 1415
Battle of Agincourt
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Dec 5, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
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Dec 5, 1453
Hundred year war ends
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Dec 5, 1453
Wars of the Roses begins
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Dec 5, 1492
Ferdinand and Isabella orderall jews to leave spain
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Clovis becomes king
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Charlemange is declared "Emperor of the Romans"
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first capetian king rules