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Oct 14, 1066
The Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings was the invasion of the Normans, led by William the conqueror on England. King Harold II of England was defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings,. this battle was fought on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, England. Harlold was killed, he got shot in the eye by an arrow according to legend. -
Jan 1, 1099
First Crusade
The First Crusade was an attempt to re-capture Jerusalem. After the capture of Jerusalem by the Muslims in 1076. -
Jan 1, 1163
Notre Dame Cathedral is built
In 1163 the Notre Dame Cathedral was built in Paris, France. Maurice de Sully ( who was the bishop of Paris at the time) decided to give the capital a cathedral worthy of France’s largest city. He wanted to build it in the gothic style. -
Jan 1, 1215
Signing of Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was a document that king John of England was forced into signing. The purpose of the Magna Carta was to curb the King and make him govern by the old English laws that had prevailed before the Normans came. -
Jan 1, 1274
Mongols try to invade Japan
Kublai Khan tried to conquer Japan in two invasions, with Mongol armies sent to Japan from the Korean peninsula and also China. The first of these invasions was in 1274, and consisted mainly of land battles fought along the northern coast of Kyushu. -
Oct 1, 1347
Black Death
The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October 1347. Over the next five years, the mysterious Black Death killed more than 20 million people in Europe, which was almost one-third of the continent’s population. -
Jan 1, 1354
Fall of Gallipoli
The Fall of Gallipoli was the siege and capture of the Gallipoli fortress and peninsula until then under Byzantine rule, by the Ottoman Turks in March 1354. -
Jan 1, 1467
Civil War erupts in Japan (Onin War)
Japan is divided amongst feudal lords. It lasted 10 years and was during the Muromachi period in Japan -
Feb 3, 1468
Gutenberg invents printing press
Johanes Gutenberg was the first person who invented the printing press and he started the printing revolution in 1468. -
Jan 1, 1494
French invasion of Italy
The French king had a claim on the Kingdom of Naples and he wanted to enforce that.This eventually led to all of the Italian states banding together in what became the Venetian League. -
Jun 28, 1575
Battle of Nagashino
The forces of Takeda Katsuyori clashed with the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu on the Shitaragahara plain near Nagashino Castle, located in central Japan. -
Jun 21, 1582
Oda Nobunaga death
Oda Nobunaga was a powerful samurai daimyo and warlord of Japan in the late 16th century who initiated the unification of Japan near the end of the Warring States period. -
Battle of Vienna
The battle of Vienna took place on September 12 1683. The main army of the Ottoman Empire, a large and well-equipped force, surrounded Vienna.
