From the Middle Ages to the Rinaissance By slash01 Period: 1100 to 1450 Middle English 1295 The birth of Parliament (the Model Parliament) with Henry III and Edward I 1337 Hundred Years' War begins (Edward III vs France) Period: 1337 to 1453 Hundred Years' War 1348 The Black Death 1381 Peasants' Revolt 1382 First translation of the BIble into English by John Wycliff Period: 1386 to 1400 "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer Period: 1455 to 1485 The Wars of the Roses Period: 1485 to 1509 King Henry VII, first king of the Tudor House 1492 Columbus' discovery of America 1509 Henry VIII