Middle Ages

By samchilders
  • Sep 28, 1066

    William and the Conqueror invades England

    William and the Conqueror invades England
    Claiming his right to the English throne, William, duke of Normandy, invades England at Pevensey on Britain’s southeast coast. His subsequent defeat of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings marked the beginning of a new era in British history.
  • Sep 28, 1150

    Paper is First Mass-Produced in Spain

    Paper is First Mass-Produced in Spain
    By the 11th century papermaking was brought to medieval Europe, where it was refined with the earliest known paper mills utilizing waterwheels.
  • Sep 28, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    Magna Carta is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons.
  • Sep 28, 1270

    End of the Crusades

    End of the Crusades
    The Crusades were predominantly a series of religious wars undertaken by the Latin Church between the 11th and 15th centuries.
  • Sep 28, 1348

    The Plague

    The Plague
    he Black Death or Black Plague 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.
  • Sep 28, 1378

    First Appearance of Robin Hood in Literature

    First Appearance of Robin Hood in Literature
    The Robin Hood legends form part of a corpus of outlaw stories which date from around the reign of King John.
  • Sep 28, 1387

    Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales

    Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales
    The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.
  • Sep 28, 1455

    War of the Roses

    War of the Roses
    The Wars of the Roses were a series of wars for control of the throne of England. They were fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, those of Lancaster and York.
  • Sep 28, 1485

    First Printing of Le Morte d'Arthur

    First Printing of Le Morte d'Arthur
    Le Morte d'Arthur is a reworking of traditional tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table.
  • Sep 28, 1485

    First Tudor King, Henry VII, is crowned

    First Tudor King, Henry VII, is crowned
    Henry VII, known before accession as Henry Tudor, 2nd Earl of Richmond was King of England after seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death, the first monarch of the House of Tudor.