William the conqueror

  • 1066

    William the conqueror. Language Latin and Norman French

    Westminster Abbey
    Normandy
  • 1085

    Feudal System. Domesday Book

    Guilds - weawers butchers and carpenters
  • 1086

    William II short period unpopular

    William's son
  • 1135

    Henry I

    William II 's brother until 1135
    Stephen his nephew- a weak king
    death (1154)
  • 1154

    Henry plantagenet Henry II strong king -able soldier

    After Stephen's death
    son of Henry I's daughter and geoffrey plantagenet
  • 1170

    Thomas Becket

    Archbishop of Canterbury
  • 1189

    Richard the lionheart

    Henry's II son
  • Period: 1189 to 1199

    Crusade

    1199 Prince John Richard's brother -unpopular
    Robin hood
    Ivanhoe Walter Scott
  • 1199

    John became King

    Lost territories in France
  • 1215

    Magna Charta

    It put the basis for the modern democracy
  • Period: 1216 to 1217

    Louis I the pretender to the reign

  • 1272

    Henry III

    John's son( Reign 1216)
  • 1297

    Edward I - War against Scotland

    Braveheart William Wallace
    A battle at Stirling Bridge
  • 1337

    The hundred Year's War 1337-1453 Edward III - Henry VI

    To regain french territories
    Failed the port of Calais
  • 1348

    The Black Death

    Half of english population died
  • 1381

    The Peasant's Revolt

    Freedom and wages
  • 1485

    The war of the Roses 1455-1485

    The House of York white rose and the House of lancaster red rose ( Plantagenet)-
  • 1485

    The Battle of Bosworth

    Henry Tudor of Lancaster defeated The last of the York Richard III