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410
Visigoths sack Rome
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476
Fall of Rome
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Feb 17, 1023
First paper money printed in China.
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Feb 20, 1045
Movable type printing by Bi Sheng in China.
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Feb 20, 1050
Crossbow invented in France.
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Oct 14, 1066
William the Conqueror,becomes King
William the Conqueror,Duke of Normandy, invades England and becomes King after the Battle of Hastings. -
Feb 20, 1077
The Construction of the Tower of London begins.
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Feb 20, 1086
Compilation of the Domesday Book
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Feb 20, 1099
First Crusade.
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Feb 20, 1100
Stone castles were being built.
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Feb 20, 1118
The Knights Templar founded
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Feb 20, 1147
Second Crusade
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Feb 20, 1156
Kremlin built in Moscow
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Feb 20, 1190
Third Crusade.
In the Third Crusade, Saladin manages to unite the Muslim world and recapture Jerusalem, sparking the Third Crusade -
Feb 20, 1200
Clothing buttons invented.
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Feb 20, 1200
Fourth Crusade embarks.
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Feb 20, 1202
Numbering system introduced
The Hindu-Arabic numbering system introduced to the west by Italian mathematician, Fibonacci. -
Feb 20, 1212
Children's Crusade
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Feb 20, 1215
Magna Carta is signed.
With the Magna Carta, King John placed himself and England's future sovereigns and magistrates within the rule of law. -
Feb 20, 1249
Rodger Bacon invented his gunpowder formula
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Feb 20, 1250
Gun invented in China.
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Feb 21, 1280
Mechanical clocks invented.
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Feb 21, 1289
Invention of eyeglasses.
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Feb 21, 1290
Windmills invented.
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Feb 21, 1295
Modern glassmaking begins in Italy.
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Feb 21, 1295
Marco Polo publishes his tales of China
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Feb 21, 1307
The Demise of the Knights Templar
The Knights Templar are rounded up and murdered by Philip the Fair of France, with the backing of the Pope. -
Feb 21, 1311
The Great Famine. begining.
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Feb 21, 1315
The Great Famine.Ending.
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Feb 21, 1326
First mention of a handgun.
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Feb 21, 1328
First sawmill.
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Feb 21, 1337
The Hundred Years War begins.
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Feb 21, 1348
The Black Death.
The Black Death ravages Europe for the first of many times. An estimated 20% - 40% of the population is thought to have perished within the first year -
Feb 21, 1350
The Black Death ends.
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Feb 21, 1366
Scales for weighing invented.
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Feb 21, 1382
The Bible is translated into English by John Wycliffe.
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Feb 21, 1400
The first piano called the Spinet invented.
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Feb 21, 1411
Trigger invented.
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Feb 21, 1420
Oil painting invented.
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Feb 21, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci is born
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Feb 21, 1453
The Hundred Years War ends.
Calais is the only English possession on Continental Europe -
Feb 21, 1455
Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press.
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Feb 21, 1455
The Wars of the Roses begins in England
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Feb 21, 1487
Bell chimes invented.
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Feb 21, 1492
Martin Behaim invented the first map globe.
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Feb 21, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the New World
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Feb 21, 1500
End of medieval age. Beginning of Renaissance.
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Rome.
Roman Empire at its largest. With Emperor Marcus Aurelius. -
Charalemage is crowned.
December 25th Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor -
Charlemagne's rule ends.
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Period: to Dec 31, 1500
Medeival Age