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Claiming his right to the English throne, William, duke of Normandy, invades England at Pevensey on Britain’s southeast coast
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paper making spread slowly to the west via the Silk Road. Papermaking and manufacturing in Europe was started by Muslims living on the Iberian Peninsula.
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a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.[a] First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons,
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in 1244 A.D. the Holy City became again a possession of the Moslems. They have never since relinquished it
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The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53.
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Robin Hood became a popular folk figure in the late-medieval period
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The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury.
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The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic wars for the throne of England.
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First published in 1485 by William Caxton,
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king henry was responsible for the beginning of the Star Chamber, a closed court that answered to no one but the king. King henry was king from January 1457 – 21 April 1509 he was King of England, and ruled the Principality of Wales until 29 November 1489.
