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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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The first papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period. By the 11th century papermaking was brought to medieval Europe, where it was refined with the earliest known paper mills utilizing waterwheels.
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Magna Carta is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215, 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.
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The crusades had a profound impact on Western civilisation: they reopened the Mediterranean to commerce and travel; consolidated the collective identity of the Latin Church under papal leadership; and were a wellspring for accounts of heroism, chivalry and piety.
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Black Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people
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Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore who, according to legend, was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Traditionally depicted as being dressed in Lincoln green, he is often portrayed as "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor"
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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote 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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Wars of the Roses were a series of wars for control of the throne of England.
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Le Morte d'Arthur was first published in 1485 by William Caxton, and is today perhaps the best-known work in Arthurian literature in English.
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Henry VII, crowned king in 1485, was the first ruler from the Tudor line, after the War of Roses ended and Lancaster and York came together