Top Ten Events of the Middle Ages Timeline By phoenixxx Period: 500 to 1500 The Middle Ages Oct 14, 1066 The Battle of Hastings 1085 Domesday Book completed Aug 15, 1096 The First Crusade 1200 Compass introduced to Europe 1215 Magna Carta was signed 1300 Gunpowder introduced to Europe 1337 The Hundred Years' War 1348 Black Death arrived in England 1381 The Peasants' Revolt 1444 Gutenberg invents the printing press