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Medieval Times

  • Battle of Tours
    Oct 10, 732

    Battle of Tours

    In the Battle of Tours, Christianity remained Europe's major religion, and they stopped Muslim advance into Europe.
  • Batlle of Hastings
    Oct 14, 1066

    Batlle of Hastings

    In the Battle of Hastings, William fought Harold over the throne of England. William the Conqueror defeated Harold and his foot soldiers. William brought feudalism to Europe.
  • Abbot Suger & St Denis
    May 1, 1081

    Abbot Suger & St Denis

    A friend of Queen Eleanor, He built and started a famous church using a new architecture style he made. It was the First ever Gothic style church, and it was called St. Denis.
  • The Crusades
    Jan 1, 1096

    The Crusades

    In the Crusades, The Christians fought because they wanted to get Jerusalem back from non-christians, such as the Muslims and the Jews.
  • Concordant of Worms
    Sep 23, 1122

    Concordant of Worms

    The Concordant of Worms was an agreement between King & Pope. It declared only a pope could chose bishops, but King could decide their job in government.
  • Queen Eleanor + Louis VII
    Apr 1, 1124

    Queen Eleanor + Louis VII

    One of the wealthiest women in Europe, she was at first married to Louis VII. Iwth Louis, She had no sons, but lots of daughters. She also went on the second crusade with him.
  • Queen Eleanor + Henry II
    May 18, 1152

    Queen Eleanor + Henry II

    The two of them had many famous sons, Such as Richard the LionHeart.
  • Thomas Beckett
    Dec 19, 1162

    Thomas Beckett

    Thomas Beckett was once a cancellor for King Henry II. Then, he was declared the Arch Bishop. He was murdered by Henry's men while he was praying at an alter. He became a saint.
  • John I
    Apr 6, 1199

    John I

    The king of England. He was such a bad ruler that his Barons led a rebellion against him and created the Magna Carta.
  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    The magna Carta was a document that took away some of kings powers. Taxes, King was forced to sign Magna Carta in order to keep his place at King.
  • Inquisition
    Jan 5, 1233

    Inquisition

    The job of the Inquisition was to put an end to heresy,convents people to catholic, thought heresy would weaken the chance to go to heaven.
  • Thomas Aquinas
    Jun 1, 1267

    Thomas Aquinas

    Thomas was Scholaticism's champion,and he combined church ideas with Aristotle. He also wrote about government as well as theology.
  • Parliment
    May 1, 1295

    Parliment

    The Parliment helped kings pass laws, steps towards representative government.
  • Spanish Inquisition
    May 1, 1501

    Spanish Inquisition

    In the Spanish Inquisition, the Spainards tried to torture thousands of people charged with heresy, mainly Jews and Muslims.
  • Charlemagne

    Charlemagne

    Charlemagne was crowned King of the Holy Roman Empire as a reward for his help for the church, and he wrote the Domesday Book