From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

By Matilde Roncarati
  • 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

  • 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

    Narrative poem which tells a story in verse about 30 pilgrims headed to Canterbury
  • 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

  • 1492

    Columbus' discovery of America

  • 1509

    Henry VIII