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Period: 1337 to 1453
Hundred Years' War
In 1337 Edward III started the Hundred Years' War against France. The war ended in 1453 -
Period: 1348 to 1352
The Black Death
The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. -
Period: 1381 to 1381
Peasants' Revolt
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Period: 1382 to 1382
First translation of the Bible into English by John Wyclif
villagers (underpaid and exploited peasants) started a revolt to demand greater rights (in 1377 the poll tax was introduced; it was levied on every individual without reference to income or property) -
Period: 1386 to 1400
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Period: 1455 to 1485
The Wars of the Roses
on Henry IV's death a civil war for succession broke out between the House of Lancaster and the House of York; it ended in 1485 when the Lancastrian Henry Tudor married Elizabeth of York and was crowned King Henry VII. -
Period: 1485 to 1509
King Henry VII, first king of the Tudor House
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1492
Columbus' discovery of America
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1509
Henry VIII