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invaded England in September 1066, decisively defeating and killing Harold at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066.
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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,
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The last major crusade aimed at the Holy Land, and an failure that well symbolises the end of the crusades and the remaining crusader states had become increasingly powerless pawns while tides of Mongol and then Mameluke conquests swept across the area.
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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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was a highly skilled archer and swordsman and 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
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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. They were fought in several sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1487, although there was related fighting before and after this period.
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was King of England after seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death, the first monarch of the House of Tudor. He ruled the Principality of Wales
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reworking of traditional tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table
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The first papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period (25-220 AD), traditionally attributed to the court official Cai Lun
