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1066
The battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest
This even happened when the Anglo-Saxon king Harold II tried to defend his realm from the Norman invasion forces of Williams, Duke of Normandy -
1085
The Domesday Book is completed
The Domesday Book is England's earliest surviving public record unsurpassed in depth and detail until the introduction of censuses in the 19th century -
1095
The First Crusade is decreed
Pope Urban II’s official call for “holy war” in 1095 heralded the beginning of centuries of religious conflict. The crusades were a significant and long-lasting movement that saw European Christian knights mount successive military campaigns in attempts to conquer the Holy Land. Religious conflict peaked during the 12th and 13th centuries and its impact can be traced throughout the Middle Ages. -
1170
Thomas Becket is murdered
Becket became chancellor to King Henry ll and after a while, Henry appointed Becket as archbishop of Canterbury after he was appointed as archbishop trouble Began to emerge and Becket began to challenge the king over a wide range of issues and their turbulent disagreements and Becket moved to avoid King Henry's anger but he came back and the king asked who will rid me of this troublesome priest and everyone thought they the king wanted him dead so on 29 December 1170 they killed him -
1215
Magna Carta is signed
It was sealed by King John at Runnymede on 15 June 1215, Magna Carta means (great charter) and has become one of the founding documents of the English legal system -
1314
The battle of Bannockburn
The battle of Bannockburn saw Scottish leader Robert the Bruce take on the English King Edward ll in a pivotal conflict in Scotland's fight for independence -
1348
The Black Death comes to Britain
The summer of 1348 saw the first outbreak of the bubonic plague in England, leading to an epidemic of huge proportions. The disease is estimated to have killed between a third and a half of the population a devastating and unprecedented death rate. -
1381
The peasants' Revolt
The first large-scale uprising in English history, the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 threatened to overturn the existing social structure and undermine the country's ruling elite. -
1414
Henry V defeats the French at Agincourt
Soon after becoming king of England in 1413, the ambitious young Henry V turned his attention to expanding his realm. During his father's reign, he had pushed for an invasion of France, and as the country was undergoing a period of political turmoil under its elderly monarch, Charles Vl, It was the perfect time to launch an assault on the vulerable -
1485
Richard lll is defeated at the battle of Bosworth
The last significant clash of the Wars of the Roses, the battle of Bosworth saw the Lancastrian Henry Tudor (the future Henry Vll) defeat Richard lll in a bloody fight for the English throne