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King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman Forces of William the Conquerer of the Battle of Hastings
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the conquest was the final act of a complicated drama that had begun years earlier
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Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule , King John puts his royal seal on the Magna Carta or , " Greater Charter"
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The black death arrived when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after long journey through theBlack Sea
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The Spanish Inquisition was established to combat heresy in Spain
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Reconquista was a name given to a long series of wars and battles between The Christian Kingdoms and the Muslim Kingdoms , and it ended in 1492
