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Period: Mar 8, 718 to Mar 8, 1492
Reconquista
The Reconquista is the name given to a long series of wars and battles between the Christian Kingdoms and the Muslim Moors for control of the Iberian Peninsula. -
Mar 6, 1066
Norman Invasion
The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy -
Oct 14, 1066
Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. -
Jun 15, 1215
Signing of the Magna Carta
Granted by the king of England to a group of rebellious barons and signed on the plain at Runnymede. -
Mar 6, 1346
Start of the Bubonic Plague (Black Death)
It was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30–60% of Europe's total population. -
Period: Nov 1, 1478 to
Spanish Inquisition
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.
