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King Arthur, semi-legendary Celtic leader resisting Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain
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King Aethelbert of KentM accepts Christianity, influenced by his wife Bertha
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Venerable Bede Benedictine monk in Northumbria and author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Aethelred, the Unready, Anglo-Saxon king of England. England besieged by Vikings
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origins of Order of the Knights Templar military religious order founded for the purposes of supporting the Crusades and the presence of Europeans in the Holy Land Templars became very wealthy and influential eventually the Order was officially suppressed and many Templars were executed or imprisoned, their property confiscated
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John Lackland, king of England loss of Normandy in Magna Carta imposed on him by English barons
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Pope Boniface VIII conflicts with Philip IV of France, the Fair mentioned by Dante in the Inferno as one of the simoniac popes
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death of Geoffrey Chaucer author of the Canterbury Tales.In 1357 he became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster. He continued to work as a public servant to the British court throughout his lifetime
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After the death of Alexander on 18 August, 1503, he returned to Rome on 3 September to take part in the election of the new pope.
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Harun al-Rashid, caliph of Baghdad Abbasid dynasty composition of the One Thousand and One Nights
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Normans settle in northern France in 911 under an agreement with Charles the Simple
