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Oct 14, 1066
Battle of Hastings
It was a battle between the Norman-French army under command of Duke William 2 and the English army led by King Harold 2. It ended in a victory for the Normans. The turning point occured when King Harold was shot an archer. -
Sep 9, 1087
The Death of William the Conquerer
He fought in the battle of Hastings and after his death the land he ruled was split in two, Normandy to his eldest son, Robert, and England to his other son William. -
Jan 24, 1271
Marco Polo travels Asia
Marco Polo didn't travel Asia until he was about 17, he traveled with his father, together they made a book titled Travels of Marco Polo. -
Jan 24, 1337
Hundred Years' War
A dispute between Egland and France. The king of England believed that he was the rightful king of France because the king of France recieved the heir because of his mother. -
Jan 24, 1343
Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer
His exact birth date and location is unkown. He was an author and his most famous works are: The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, and The Legend of Good Women. -
May 30, 1412
Birth of Joan of Arc
She led the French army to many important victories in the Hundred Years War. -
Apr 15, 1452
Birth of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was not only a great renaissance artist, but a great architect as well. His most famous paintings are the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and The Vitruvian Man. -
Feb 19, 1473
Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathemation, and astronomer. He helped come up with the heliocentric, which placed the Sun, not Earth as the center of the universe -
Jan 24, 1480
Birth of Ferdinand Magellan
He searched for a route to the "Spice Islands", even though he didn't entirely make it he sailed from Portugal and died in the Philippines. -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus travels to the Americas
He traveled from Spain and intended to reach Japan, but instead he landed in what he called San Salvador. -
Feb 15, 1546
Birth of Galileo Galilei
He is known as "the father of sciene and astronomy" because he was the first to observe the phases of Venus, and he discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter. -
Founding of Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock is important because when the virst pilgrims arrived, they wrote a message to future settlers on a rock. -
Birth of Sir Isaac Newton
He's most famous for his three laws of motion and describing gravity. His theory of gravity along with Kepler's laws of planetary motion helped remove all doubts about heliocentrism.
