The Middle Ages By armand.r 400 Western Roman Empire End The Roman Empire has fallen Jan 1, 711 Moors start raiding Spain Jan 1, 1066 William of Normandy wins Battle of Hastings and becomes king of England Jan 1, 1096 Crusades start Jan 1, 1100 Small towns start springing up over Europe Jan 1, 1170 Murder of Thomas a Becket Jan 1, 1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes the first shogun of Japan Jan 1, 1215 King John of England signs the Magna Carta Jan 1, 1275 First meeting held in England of a parliament Jan 1, 1291 Crusades end Jan 1, 1314 Battle of Bannockburn Jan 1, 1316 The Great Famine Jan 1, 1337 100 Years War starts Jan 1, 1347 Black Death Breaks out in Europe Jan 1, 1381 Wat Tyler leads a revolt of English peasant to win more freedom from landowners Jan 1, 1382 First English Bible by John Wycliffe. Jan 1, 1429 Joan of Arc drives put the English from Orleans Jan 1, 1453 100 Years war ends Jan 1, 1485 Henry Tudor (Henry VII) is crowned King of England Mar 2, 2022 Vikings start to raiding Europe Mar 2, 2022 Erik the red found Greenland