The Middle Ages

By monica.ceballos
  • Sep 25, 1066

    William the Conqueror invades England

    William built a large fleet and invaded England in September 1066, decisively defeating and killing Harold at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066
  • Sep 24, 1150

    Paper is first mass-produced in Spain

    Paper spread slowly to the west via the Silk Road. Papermaking and manufacturing in Europe was started by Muslims living on the Iberian Peninsula, (today's Portugal and Spain) and Sicily in the 10th century, and slowly spread to Italy and Southern France reaching Germany by 1400.
  • Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to t
  • Sep 25, 1270

    End of the Crusades

    The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. In 1095, they sent an ambassador to Pope Urban II in Italy pleading for military help against the growing Turkish threat. The Pope responded promptly by calling Christian soldiers to join the First Crusade.
  • Sep 25, 1348

    The Plague

    The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53.
  • Sep 24, 1378

    First appearance of Robin Hood in literature

    c. 1200-1400 A.D., although modem stories of Robin now tend to place him around1194, the year King Richard returned to England.
  • Sep 24, 1387

    Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales

    Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.
  • Sep 25, 1455

    1455-1485-War of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic wars for the throne of England. They were fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, the houses of Lancaster and York. They were fought in several sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1487.
  • Sep 24, 1485

    First printing of Le Morte d’Arthur

    First published in 1485 by William Caxton, Le Morte d'Arthur is today perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English.Le Morte d'Arthur is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of traditional tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table.
  • Sep 25, 1485

    First Tudor king, Henry VII, is crowned

    Henry VII was King of England, ruled the Principality of Wales and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor.