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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1485
medieval times
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476
western roman empire ends
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Jan 1, 711
moors start raiding spain
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Feb 8, 1016
king cnut a danish viking takes control of the english throne
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Jan 1, 1066
william of normandy wins battle of hastings and becomes king of england
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Feb 8, 1066
battle of hastings which saw final defeat of vikings william the conquerer becomes king of england
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Jan 1, 1096
crusades start
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Jan 1, 1100
small towns start springing up over europe
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Jan 1, 1192
minamoto yoritomo becomes the first shogun of japan
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Jan 1, 1215
king john of england signs the magna carta
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Jan 1, 1275
first meeting held in england of a parliment
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Jan 1, 1291
crusades end
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Feb 8, 1337
100 years war starts
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Jan 1, 1347
black death breaks out in europe
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Jan 1, 1381
wat tyler leads a revolt of english peasants to win more freedom from landowners
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Jan 1, 1429
joan of arc drives out the english from orleans
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Jan 1, 1453
100 years war ends
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Jan 1, 1485
henry tudor (henry VII) is crowned king of england
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vikings start raiding europe
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vikings invade english monastery at lindisfarne marking the start of their terror campaign
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vikings reach byzantine empire ready to attack constantinople
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alfred the great english king of wessex gives vikings a region in england known as the danelaw
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region in france normandy given to vikings in exchange for their loyalty
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arab travellar ibn fadlan writes about vikings he observed in what is now known as russia
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most vikings in the area known as today as denmark have become christians