Middle Ages

  • Period: 500 to 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 800

    The Manor Born

    That they did not learn how to read or write.
  • 1066

    Battle of Hastings

    About 20 years after the Battle of hastings william decided that he wanted to know how rich England was
  • 1066

    The Battle that Changed History

    The Normans needed to change their tactics.
  • 1075

    The Bayeux Tapestry

    The Bayeux Tapestry is believed to have been commissioned around the year 1075 CE by a member of William,s family
  • 1100

    Gloomy castle and Jousting Knights

    Knight were soldiers who fought on horseback, and sometimes on foot, for their Lord.
  • 1209

    The Wayward King

    Two years later, in 1209 CE, the pope excommunicated king John
  • 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta really only benefited some members of society: feudal lords,the church,the merchant class, and, in a general way, all freeman.
  • 1348

    Black Death

    Some historians have concluded that traders who had been trading in the Middle East brought the plague to Europe.
  • 1415

    A changing World

    Although this was indeed a great victory for the English,France won the war in the end
  • 1450

    The Printing Press

    Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press
  • 1453

    All King of changes

    people fought wars differently by the end of the Middle Ages than they had earlier.