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- 1066 - Battle of Hastings, William I conquers England.
- 1073-85 - Pontificate of Gregory VII
- 1076 - execution of Earl Waltheof of Northumbria.
- 1086 - Domesday survey.
- 1096-99 First Crusade, capture of Jerusalem.
- 1098 - foundation of Cistercian Order.
- 1100 - death of William Rufus, in a hunting accident.
- 1122 - Concordat of Worms
- 1135-1153 - 'the Anarchy'; ending with the Treaty of Winchester.
- 1152 - Election of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa; marriage of Eleanor of Aquitane to Henry Plantagenet.
- 1167 - formation of the Lombard League.
- 1168 - discovery of silver at Freiberg, providing bullion for increased coinage.
- 1177 - construction of bridge of Avignon.
- 1187 - battle of Hattin, Saladin overruns Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1189-92 - Third Crusade; death of Frederick Barbarossa (1190).
- 1198-1216 - Pontificate of Innocent III.
- 1199 - accession of King John of England
- 1204 - Philip Augustus of France takes Normandy from England; sack of Constantinople by the armies of the Fourth Crusade.
- 1209-13 - Albigensian Crusade.
- 1210 - St Francis of Assisi promulgates his Regula primitiva.
- 1214 - battle of Bouvines; Philip Augustus defeats Emperor Otto IV & the Count of Flanders.
- 1215 - Magna Carta
- 1224 - foundation of the University of Naples by Frederick II, as the official institution of learning for the Regno (Norman Sicily).
- 1228 - cannonisation of St Francis (two years after his death).
- 1248 - Surrender of Seville, leaving only Grenada under Moslem control.
- 1252 - Teutonic Knights found Memel
- 1282-83 - Edward I campaigns in Wales; deaths of Llywelyn and David ap Gruffudd ends the native dynasty of Gwynedd.
- 1290s - Wars of Scottish Independence.
- 1314 - Battle of Bannockburn.
- 1315-17 - harvest failures, famine across Europe.
- 1321-27 - Despencer War; deposition and murder of Edward II.
- 1328 - Paris estimated to have 200,000 inhabitants.
- 1337 - commencement of the Hundred Years War.
- 1348-49 - Black Death sweeps through Europe.
- 1356 - Defeat of French at Poitiers by the Black Prince.
- 1378-81 - War of Chioggia - Venetians destroy naval power of the Genoese.
- 1402-06 - Revolt of Owen Glendower in Wales.
- 1415 - French defeated by Henry V at Agincourt.
- 1420 - Treaty of Troyes - Henry V acknowledged as heir to Charles VI of France.
- 1429 - Seige of Orleans raised by Joan of Arc.
- 1453 - Fall of Constantinople, and end of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Return to Early Medieval or Timelines.
Key sources:
A History of Medieval Europe, from Constantine to St Louis (Davis, Longman, 1970)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Saul, Oxford, 1997)
The Thirteenth Century - 1216 to 1307 (Powicke, Oxford, 1962)
Power and Profit - the Merchant in Medieval Europe (Spufford, Thames & Hudson, 2003)
Cathedral Forge and Waterwheel (Gies, HarperCollins, 1994)
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