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Introductory task for history
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Angkor was divided because several contenders for the throne strugged to get it, so Angkor ended up being divided.
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In 1066 the duke of Normandy was crowned King william I of england after his victory at the battle of hastings.
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Gengis Kahn unites all of the mongol and tatar tribes.
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in the year 1243 Jayavarman became king.
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Osam I founderd the Ottoman Empire on the 29 of May 1299, when he was declared independence for his tribe. Before he founded the Ottoman Empire he was loyal to the Seljuk Empire. By the end of the 13th century the Seljuk Empire was weak, Osam realised the time was right take more land so he broke away from the Seljuk Empire and founded the Ottomann Empire.
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Osam died in 1324 and his role as king was taken over by his son Orhan I. ( Date of actual death is unknown)
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Plague breaks out in north-eastern china killing five million people that year.
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In 1337 King Charles IV died and had no reletives left except for his sister who had a son Edward III. England said that he should be king but France said that a cousin of charles Philip should be king. Edward thought that Philip would be a threat so he declared war on Philip this creating the 100 year war between England and France.
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Nestorian christian community in central asia wiped out.
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The first recorded apperance of the black death was in messina sicily in october 1347. It arrived on a trading ship that came from the black sea, past constantinople and through the meditarranean.
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The mongols are driven out if bejing by the founders of the ming dynasty in 1368.
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Leonardo da vinci the famous painter and all rounder smart guy was born on the 15th of april 1452.
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The conquest of constantinople was one of the great military achivements for the ottoman empire.
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In 1502 Moctezuma becomes the aztec ruler
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Small poxs sweeps through the area that is now called mexico and kills 25% of the Aztec population.
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in 1503 the famous mona lisa was started by the famous painter, sculpter, engineer leonardo da vinci
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The famous Michel de Nostredamas was born.
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On the 2 of may 1519 the famous painter, sculptor, engineer and scientist Leonardo da vinci dies.
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Small poxs reaches the Inca Empire and kills the Inca ruler Cuayna Capac and his succsesor.
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Tokugawa leyasu becomes shogun on 1542.
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Firearms arrive in japan. For japan the is a big moment in history because they have never experienced the power that firearms have, they also have probaby never experienced the damage that firearms can do to there enemys and how much useful it woud be in a war.
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in 1600 Galileo Galile invented the firstr thermometer which was a massive breakthrough.
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in 1633 the sakokuu period of isolation begins.
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In 1860 the french archaeologist henri mauhot rediscover the Kahmer Empire (Angkor), which is a pretty big achievement.
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Erik the red banished from iceland for three years for muder, when he was banished he sailed west and he disovered green land
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A Viking named Ulrich becomes ruler of Novgorod (in Russia); it was later the capital of the Rus Vikings (who sailed there from todays sweden to get there the sailed on the major rivers in russia.
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Danish chief Cni\ut invades England; he beomes king of England (after he became king of England he also became king of Denmark and Norway a little while after he became king of England).
