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Sep 20, 1050
The City of Oslo was founded
The City of Oslo was founded by Harald Hardraade (Harald the Hard) in approx. 1050, east of the current city centre. King Haakon V built Akershus Fortress about 1300 and later the same century, the city was visited by the Black Death. Norway became a Danish possession in 1536 as its lumber industry was getting started. In 1624 the entire city was destroyed by fire. King Christian IV rebuilt the city around Akershus Fortress, further west at the natural head of the harbour. He renamed it Christia -
Oct 14, 1066
The Battle Of Hastings
The battle of Hastings was caused because King Edward has just died and had just promised the throne to Harold Godwineson, Edward's brother in-law because King Edward had no children. But much earlier he had spoken to William of Normandy and promised that he would be king. Enraged at this decision of the dyeing king William of Normandy sought revenge and waged battle on England. After the battle of Hastings French people were brought over to England and forced all English people to speak French. -
Nov 27, 1095
first crusade
On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II gave an important speech at the end of a church council in Clermont, France. In it he called upon the nobility of Western Europe, the Franks, to go to the East and assist their Christian brothers, the Byzantines, against the attacks of the Muslim Turks. The Crusades changed all of Jewish life in Europe. It changed the attitude of Christians towards Jews and Jews toward Christians. -
Jun 18, 1148
the secound crusade
In the year 1146, the city of Edessa, the bulwark of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem on the side towards Mesopotamia, was taken by the Turks, and the entire population was slaughtered, or sold into slavery. Of the great host that set out from Europe, only a few thousands escaped annihilation in Asia Minor at the hands of the Turks. Louis and Conrad, with the remnants of their armies, made a joint attack on Damascus, but had to raise the siege after a few days. This closed the crusade. -
Sep 10, 1203
seige of Chateau Gaillard
King Richard died in a crossbow accident so his brother became king. Hearing that the king had died and his brother claimed the throne king Philip decided to besiege Chateau Gaillard. First he overrun the surrounding castles and villages isolating Chateau Gaillard from any help. King Philip began the siege of in September 1203. It took six months to penetrate the outer bailey the French knights climbed up the toilet chute to get in to the. Roger de Lacey the solider at arms surrendered. -
Jun 19, 1211
the mongols invade china
The year 1211 marked the beginning of the war between the Mongols and the Chin Dynasty. The Chin Dynasty was very powerful and was able to hold Genghis Khan or Temujin and his Mongol army at bay for the first two years of the war. Throughout this time however, Temujin continued to build his forces and by 1213 had an army so powerful that they conquered all of the Chin territory up to China's Great Wall. -
Jun 19, 1226
the mongol empire
The Mongols Empire was the biggest land empire in the world. It stretched from the yellow sea to Eastern Europe. The mongos were the most savage people in the world also known as Tatars. The Mongols invade china many time in its period of time. Genghis khan was born during this time and he was the most savage Mongol in the world -
Nov 18, 1274
the Mongols try to invade Japan
The first Mongol invasion of Japan occurred in 1274. In November, an armada of nearly 900 vessels containing more than 40,000 troops was dispatched from Korea and arrived at Hakata Bay on November 18th. On the following day, the troops landed on the bay and fought the Japanese defence on land. That night, the Japanese were saved when a severe storm hit the island, sinking 200 ships and killing over 13,000 Mongol soldiers. As a result, the remaining armada retreated back to Korea, ending in a -
Jun 18, 1337
the 100 year war
The 100 year war was caused primarily by king Edward 3th because he asserted that he in fact had a superior claimed to the throne because his mother was Philip the Fair's daughter. By the 14th the armies needed stronger healthier and smarter armies to fight. The war was fought on French soil throughout the war and French and English soldiers raided, plundered and murdered across the countryside. The effects of this war are it most of the farmlands were lain to waste and the French population dwi -
Aug 16, 1347
the black death spread to Europe
The Black Death spread to Europe by sea when twelve trading ships from Genoese docked at a Sicilian port. To the horror of the people waiting at the dock the crew of all of the ships were either dead or horribly ill. The horrified people sent the ‘Death Ships’ back out to sea, but it was too late, the people were already infected with the disease. The pandemic spread rapidly over the continent killing meny people. -
Oct 17, 1348
Black death start
Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history. By the time the epidemic played itself out three years later, anywhere between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had fallen victim to the pestilence. Having no defence and no understanding of the cause of the pestilence, the men, women and children caught in its onslaught were bewildered, panicked, and finally devastated. -
Jun 19, 1350
reaccrence of the Black Death
While the Black Death began to subside in the 1350s, it was not eliminated. Many historians believe the pandemic had simply run its course in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, and in conjunction with improved personal hygiene and quarantines, the illness simply infected fewer people. The Black Death was devastating to the world's population. In addition to population losses, the world also suffered monumental setbacks in the arenas of labour, art, culture, and the economy. The pandemic did, h -
Jun 12, 1381
The peasent revolt
The peasants that survived the Black Death believed that there was special and that god had given them special powers. Therefore, they took the opportunity offered by the disease to improve their lifestyle. Feudal law stated that peasants could only leave their village if they had their lord’s permission. But many lords were short of desperately needed labour for the land that they owned. Although the Peasants Revolt was brief in duration and did not achieve its aim of ending villeinage. -
Jun 28, 1575
The Battle of Nagashino
The Battle of Nagashino took place on June 28th 1575. The forces of Takeda Katsuyori clashed with the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu on the Shitaragahara plain near Nagashino Castle, located in central Japan. The Takeda and Tokugawa had fought many times before. Allied to Ieyasu was Oda Nobunaga, the nominal hegemon of central Japan. Nobunaga controlled the heartland of Japan around Kyoto and was an innovator with firearms and tactics in Japanese warfare. -
Jun 21, 1582
The Death of Nobunaga
In the 1582 year, Nobunaga returned from his conquest of the Takeda clan in time for news of a crisis in the west. Nobunaga responded by speeding a large contingent of his personal troops westward to fight. He awoke the following morning in the Honnoji to find that during the night Akechi Mitsuhide had the temple surrounded. he died, either in the blaze that was started of the sedige that followed -
The Shimabara Rebellion
The Shimabara Rebellion broke out on 17 December 1637 as peasants (mainly Christian) rose in revolt against their brutal daimyo. Here an estimated 23,000 out of a total population of 45,000 joined the revolt. The revolt failed to capture the castles of Shimabara and Tomioka. Without them the revolt was doomed to failure. The rebels then fortified themselves in the old castle of Hara. Despite its poor state of repair the castle held out for some time. Eventually the castle fell and the starving d -
The Great Plague of London
The Great Plague of London in 1665 was the last in a long series of plague epidemics that first began in London in June 1499. The Great Plague killed between 75,000 and 100,000 of London’s rapidly expanding population of about 460,000. First suspected in late 1664, London’s plague began to spread in earnest eastwards in April 1665 from the destitute suburb of St. Giles through rat-infested alleys to the crowded and squalid parishes of Whitechapel and Stepney on its way to the walled City of Lond -
the great fire of london
The Great Fire of London began on the night of September 2, 1666, as a small fire on Pudding Lane. The wind blew the sparks to a riverside warehouses and wharves filled with food for the flames: hemp, oil, tallow, hay, timber, coal and spirits along with other combustibles. Some 430 acres, as much as 80% of the city proper was destroyed, including 13,000 houses, 89 churches, and 52 Guild Halls. Thousands of citizens found themselves homeless and financially ruined. -
the vikings
Viking, also called Norseman or Northman were member of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the 9th to the 11th century and whose disruptive influence profoundly affected European history. These pagan Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish warriors were probably prompted to undertake their raids by a combination of factors ranging from overpopulation at home to the relative helplessness of victims abroad. -
khmers empore
Empire of the Khmers founded by Jayavarman II in 802. Its capital was established at the temple-city of Angkor by Yasovarman I. Under Suryavarman I and Suryavarman II the empire controlled all of modern Cambodia and most of Thailand and Laos. Attacked by the expanding Thai peoples
