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Period: Sep 30, 1000 to Sep 30, 1500
Middle Ages Events
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Oct 14, 1066
Battle of Hastings
King William of Normandy defeats the English in the Norman conquest of Britian introducing Frankish culture. -
Sep 1, 1150
Paper is first mass produced in Spain.
Paper becomes widely avaiable and sets off a chain reaction of recording and writings. -
Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta is signed by King John of England.
The Magna Carta established and protected the rights of an person agaisnt the power of a monarch. -
Sep 30, 1270
End of the Crusades
Conquests in the middle east, or crusades, are stop. During these conquests, ideas, languages, and cultures are exchanged. -
Sep 30, 1348
The Black Death.
The Black Death (Bubonic Plague) is spread all over Europe, causeing a tramatic shift in noblity, social statues. Leadin to the end of Chivilry. -
Nov 1, 1378
First appearance of Robin Hood in literature.
The story of Robin Hood is first reviled in story. -
Sep 30, 1387
Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales.
The Canterbury Tales sets off an entire way of rethinking how stories should be told. -
Sep 30, 1448
War of the Roses
War between two factions of Brithish government, the Lancasters and Yorks. Started when the thought of the dethronement of mentally unstable King Henry VI and the thronement of Richard Duke of York began. -
Sep 30, 1448
First Tudor King King Henry VII is Throned
Following the War of the Roses, King Henry VII is crowned King of England. -
Sep 30, 1485
First printing of Le Morte d’Arthur.
The Tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is ironicly writien by a criminally crupted knight.