Notes for class Middle Ages key events

• http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/middle-ages-timeline.htm
• 1066- Battle of Hastings Godwinson is defeated Normans buld castles
• 1087 King William Rufus invades Wales and builds castles on the borders
• 1099- first crusades: Jerusalem is taken from the Muslims after the urging of Pope Urban the second
• 1118- knights Templar founded to protect Jerusalem and European pilgrims on their journey to the city
• 1147- second Crusade
• 1158- Hanseatic league is founded
• 1184- inquisitions begin (convert Jews and find heretics)
• 1190- third crusade - muslims recapture the Holy City
• 1200- fourth crusade: In Constantinople
• 1212- children's crusade
• 1213-1215: Baron's of England revolt
• 1215- Magna Carta is signed
• forced King John to know that the monarch was not above the law
• 1216- starts King Henry III
• 1272- Reign of king Edward
• 1274- Thomas Aquinas' work, Summa Theologiae is published
• 1295- Marco Polo publishes his tales of china
• 1307- Knights Templar are rounded up and murdered by Philip of France by backing of Pope because they felt they were becoming to powerful.
• 1311-1315- Great Famine
• 1337- Hundreds years war starts
• broken into three parts
• Edwardian war (1337-1360)
• Caroline War (1369-1389)
• Lancastrian War (1415-1429)
• 1347- Black Death ravages Europe for the first of many times
• 1280- Chaucer begins to write the Canterbury Tales
• 1381- Peasants revolt
• 1383: Bible is translated into English
• 1430- Joan arc is captured, put on trial, and executed
• 14340 Medici family rises to prominence in Florence, they head the journey to the Renaissance