medieval society and the vikings

By noneal1
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1485

    medieval times

  • 476

    western roman empire ends

  • Jan 1, 711

    moors start raiding spain

  • Feb 8, 1016

    king cnut a danish viking takes control of the english throne

  • Jan 1, 1066

    william of normandy wins battle of hastings and becomes king of england

  • Feb 8, 1066

    battle of hastings which saw final defeat of vikings william the conquerer becomes king of england

  • Jan 1, 1096

    crusades start

  • Jan 1, 1100

    small towns start springing up over europe

  • Jan 1, 1192

    minamoto yoritomo becomes the first shogun of japan

  • Jan 1, 1215

    king john of england signs the magna carta

  • Jan 1, 1275

    first meeting held in england of a parliment

  • Jan 1, 1291

    crusades end

  • Feb 8, 1337

    100 years war starts

  • Jan 1, 1347

    black death breaks out in europe

  • Jan 1, 1381

    wat tyler leads a revolt of english peasants to win more freedom from landowners

  • Jan 1, 1429

    joan of arc drives out the english from orleans

  • Jan 1, 1453

    100 years war ends

  • Jan 1, 1485

    henry tudor (henry VII) is crowned king of england

  • vikings start raiding europe

  • vikings invade english monastery at lindisfarne marking the start of their terror campaign

  • vikings reach byzantine empire ready to attack constantinople

  • alfred the great english king of wessex gives vikings a region in england known as the danelaw

  • region in france normandy given to vikings in exchange for their loyalty

  • arab travellar ibn fadlan writes about vikings he observed in what is now known as russia

  • most vikings in the area known as today as denmark have become christians