Medieval Europe

Battle of Badon

500

The Battle of Badon (Latin: Bellum in monte Badonis or Mons Badonicus, Welsh: Cad Mynydd Baddon, all literally meaning "Battle of Mount Badon" or "Battle of Badon Hill") was a battle thought to have occurred between Celtic Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the late 5th or early 6th century.

Medieval Europe

Period: 500 to 1500

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.

Roman–Persian Wars

602

The Roman–Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between states of the Greece-Roman world and two successive Iranian empires: the Parthian and the Sassanian. Battles between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic began in 54 BC; wars began under the late Republic, and continued through the Roman and Sassanian Persian empires.

Offa of Mercia

795

Offa was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in July 796. The son of Thinning and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of Endothelial. Offa defeated the other claimant, Belabored.

Great Heathen Army

866

known by the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army (OE: Mycenae Hansen here), was a coalition of Norse warriors, originating from Denmark (and likely also from Sweden and Norway) who came together under a unified command to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in AD 865.

Edward the Elder

910

. 874 – 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great.

Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

1077

11 November 1050 – 7 August 1106) ascended to King of the Germans in 1056. From 1084 until his forced abdication in 1105, he was also referred to as the King of the Romans and Holy Roman Emperor.

Henry II of England

1171

Henry was the son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England. He became actively involved by the age of 14 in his mother's efforts to claim the throne of England, then occupied by Stephen of Blois, and was made Duke of Normandy at 17.

University of Cambridge

1209

Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's third-oldest surviving university.

William Wallace

1305

was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

Battle of Zonchio

1499

Took place on four separate days: 12, 20, 22 and 25 August 1499. It was a part of the Ottoman–Venetian War of 1499–1503.[1] It was the first naval battle in history in which cannons were used on ships.