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400
middle ages start
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476
Western roman empire ends
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Jan 1, 711
Moors start raiding Spain
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Jan 1, 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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Jan 1, 1066
Battle of Hastings, which saw final defeat of Viking's; Willam the conqueror 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 Parliament
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Jan 1, 1291
Crusades end
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Jan 1, 1337
100 Years' war starts
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Jan 1, 1347
Black Death 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 Ark drives out the English from Orleans
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Jan 1, 1453
100 Years' war ends
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Jan 1, 1485
Heanry Tudor ( Henry VII ) is crowned king of England
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vinking's start raiding Europe
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Viking's invade English monastery
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Viking's reach Byzantine Empire, ready to attack Constantiople
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Alfred the great, English King of Wessex, gives Vikings a region known as the Danelaw
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Region in France (Normandy) given to viking's in exchange for their loyalty
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Most viking's in the area known today as Denmark have become Christians
