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Reign of Justinian in eastern Roman empire, he reconquers west, issues new code of Roman law and builds Santa Sophia Church in Constantinople. (orthodoxwiki.org)
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Islam founded. (religionfacts.com)
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1st attempt to gain control of Holy Land. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade)
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2nd attempt to gain control of Holy Land. (http://beyond-border.blogspot.com/2011/08/second-crusade-1145-1148.html)
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King John forced to sign the Magna Carta, guaranteeing rights of church and barons against the King, existing legal procedures, privileges of towns and merchants, rights of widows and heirs. It also establishes national standard weights and measures. (http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/)
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Muslims regain control of Jerusalem. (http://sacredsites.com/middle_east/israel/jerusalem.html)
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Hundred Years War begins. Start of more than a hundred years of English atrocities in France. (http://www.britishbattles.com/100-years-war/agincourt.htm)
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Peasants revolt against the poll tax begins in Essex and spreads to Kent, Kentishmen choose Wat Tyler as leader. Richard II meets rebels at Mile End and promises justice and freedom for all. Mob storm Tower and executes Chancellor Archbishop Sudbury and others on Tower Hill. Uprisng suppressed. (http://badgerdown.blogspot.com/2012/02/brief-views-on-great-rising-of-1381.html)
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Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. (freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com)
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Treaty between King Ethelred and Duke Richard of Normandy, arranged by Pope's envoy to end hostility caused by Normandy's protection of Viking raiders, each agree not to assist each other's enemies. English pay first Danegeld (£10,000). Ethelred makes treaty of peace and mutual assistance with Olaf, and £22,000 Danegeld agreed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II,_Duke_of_Normandy)
