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In 410AD- Rome was being attacked by the Goths, so the Roman Soldiers in Briton were called to defend Rome.
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In 450AD the Britons were fighting amongst themselves. Vortigern called the Anglo Saxons to come and help them. But when they got there they later saw an advantage to invade Briton, so they did.
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In 500AD lived King Arthur. He was King of Britain who defeated the Saxons and established an empire over Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Gaul. The fact that King Arthur actually lived is very debatable. But there are many legends about him such as the round table, the sword from the stone etc. In the early 6th century King Arthur died at the hands of his nephew and was taken by boat to be burried at the isle of Avalon.
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1066AD was a very turbelent year. Starting with the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest - when William the Conqueror effectively took all of the lands from the Saxon English and gave them to French nobles.
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Pope Urban issues the Crusades to capture the Holy Land, and to repel the Seljuk Turks from the Byzantine Empire from Alexios I Komnenos.
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The Second Crusade was lead by King Louis VII who was enlisted by Bernard of Clairvaux, it was a disasterous failure including the loss of one of the four Latin Kingdoms, the Duchy of Edessa.
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The Third Crusade was proclaimed by Pope Gregory VIII in the wake of the catastrophe of the second crusade, which conducted by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, King Philip Augustus of France and King Richard "Coeur-de-Lion" of England.
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The Fourth Crusade also happened during which Constantinople was sacked.
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The Children's Crusade in 1212AD is the name given to a disastrous Crusade by Christian children to expel Muslims from the Holy Land.
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The Black Death was a horrific disease. It is estimated to have killed 30–60 percent of Europe's population, reducing world population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in the 14th century.
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In 1337AD the war started because when Charles IV of France died in 1328 without a son. Edward III of England thought he had the right to become the new king of France through his mother. But the french didnt want this so the war begun.
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Renaissance means rebirth. This period saw a rebirth in knowledge. The Renaissance was turning from God to man. Science and the arts were becoming more important than christianinty. The Renaissance begun in Italy.
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In 1453AD The One Hundred Years War ended. The war actually went for 116 years instead of 100 years.
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In 1491AD- King Henry The Eighth was crowned king of Ireland. He is known for his six marriages all in which he murdered and for separating the christian church.
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The renaissance ended at about 1600AD and people begun to start turning towards christianity again.
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In 800AD Charlemagne was very successful and had lots of power. The office of the pope, recognized Charlemagne's power. The pope crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800AD.
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768AD- Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, was King of the Franks from 768AD. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that included much of Western and Central Europe.
