medieval timerline

  • Battle of hastings
    Oct 14, 1066

    Battle of hastings

    William the conqueror defeated Harold and his foot soldiers. william brought feudalism william VS. Harold over the throne of England.
  • The crusades
    Apr 11, 1096

    The crusades

    People fought becasue they wanted to take jerusalem
  • h Comman Law
    Mar 28, 1154

    h Comman Law

    Established 2 juries, utalized the law courts to inncrease power, set up central court with trained lawyers and judges, a desicion of the supreme court of the united kingdom.
  • Francis of assisi
    May 17, 1209

    Francis of assisi

    Franciscans helped the poor and served as missionaries.
  • Magna carta
    Jan 15, 1215

    Magna carta

    Took some of kings powers away, Taxes, king forced to sign it.
  • inquisition
    Jan 5, 1233

    inquisition

    This ends heresy, it convents people that arent catholic to catholic, Churches thought that heresy wouldnt give people a chance to go to heaven so they ended it.
  • thomas Aquinas
    Jan 1, 1267

    thomas Aquinas

    Scholaticism's champion, combined church ideas w/ Aristotle, and wrote about government as well as theoloy.
  • Parliment
    Jan 5, 1295

    Parliment

    This helped kings pass laws, is divided into two houses, and steps toward representative governmets.
  • spanish inquisition
    Apr 28, 1478

    spanish inquisition

    Tortured thousands of people that were with heresy.
  • charlemagne

    charlemagne

    Education, Holy Roman Empire, Domesday book.