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The son of Aethelerd, Edward the Confessor, becomes King of England.
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Start of the First Crusade, the first of eight wars fought between Christians and Muslims over the next 175 years.
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Genghis Khan united Mongol tribesmen and other nomadic peoples. his fierce armies conquered areas of land throughout Asia, ans Southern Russia to the Mongol Empire.
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After Mongke's death, the empire fell into civil war as his two sons vied for the title of Great Kahn. Kublai, who was overseer of occupied China, was named the successor and Great Kahn in 1260.
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Chinese traveller and writer Zhou Daguan visits and records daily life in the kingdom.
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As soon as the citizens of Messina realized what horrible sickness had come aboard these ships, they expelled them from the port -- but it was too late. Plague quickly raged through the city, and panicking victims fled, thus spreading it to the surrounding countryside. While Sicily was succumbing to the horrors of the disease, the expelled trading ships brought it to other areas around the Mediterranean, infecting the neighboring islands of Corsica and Sardinia by November.
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Widespread perseecution of Jews. With thousands burned to death. The plauge reaches Aswan in Egypt and the entire Isamic world is now effected.
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Birth of Mehmed II, the Ottoman sultan who would succeed in capturing Constantinople.
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Bajazet II, Sultan of Turkey, invades Hungary and defeats the Hungarian army at the Save River.
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Columbus arrives in the Bahamas. Europeans are in the Americas to stay. Columbus eventually makes four voyages to the New World, but dies dejected and forgotten in Valladolid, Spain in 1506
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Raphael painted 'The Marriage of the Virgin'. It exemplified the major principles of High Renaissance art.
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German troops began sacking Rome, bringing about the end of the Renaissance.
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Madrid rises against Napoleon's occupying troops, beginning the Spanish War of Independence. Spanish colonies in South America use the opportunity to start agitating for independence themselves.
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Charemagne crowned by the Pope as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Erik the Red banished from Iceland for three years for murder; he sails west and discovers Greenland.
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Yasovarman II founds the Angkor/Khmer Empire.
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The Royal Court moves to Nara to Kyoto. The Emperor wanted to restrict the political influence of Buddist monks at the old capital.
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