Middle Ages

Middle Ages

Sep 24, 1000

Middle ages began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: Antiquity, Medieval period, and Modern period. It lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

William the Conqueror

Sep 25, 1066

William the conqueror invades England to claim his right to English throne. His subsequent defeat of King Harold 2nd at the battle of Hastings marked the beginning of a new era in British history.On Christmas Day, 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned the first Norman king of England, in Westminster Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end.William I proved an effective king of England, and the “Domesday Book,” a great census of the lands and people of England, was amo

First Paper Made

Sep 25, 1150

The first use of paper has been excavated in China from the 2nd century BC and paper used for writing became widespread by the 3rd century AD.

Magna Carta

Sep 25, 1215

Magna Carta is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede on June 1215. It promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, and access to swift justice.Neither side stood behind their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.

End of Crusades

Sep 25, 1270

Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. After two centuries the old crusading enthusiasm died out, the old ideal of the crusade as "the way of God" lost its spell. Men had begun to think less of winning future salvation by visits to distant shrines and to think more of their present duties to the world about them.

The Plague

Sep 25, 1348

The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of Central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road, reaching Crimea by 1343. It was most likely carried by black rats that were a regular passengers on the merchant ships. Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30–60% of Europe's total population.

Robin Hood

Sep 25, 1378

In 1632, the ballad writer Martin Parker published a ballad about Robin Hood.At first he was a figure who resisted wrongful authority, in sometimes violent but also tricksterish ways: essentially, he was a man of the people expressing the value of natural law.

The Canterbury Tales

Sep 25, 1387

The anterbury tales is a collection of over 20 stories written in middlge English by Chaucer.The tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgirms as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Whether they reach the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket is not know because Chaucer did not finished the story.

War of Roses

Sep 25, 1455

War of Roses were a series of dynastic wars that were fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, the houses of Lancaster and York. The conflict resulted from social and financial troubles that followed the Hundred Years' War, combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of Henry VI, which revived interest in the alternative claim to the throne of Richard, Duke of York.

Le Morte d'Arthur

Sep 25, 1485

Le Morte d'Arthur is a compilation by sir Thomas Malory of traditional tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table. Le Morte d'Arthur was published in 1485 by William Caxton and is the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English.

Henry Crowned

Sep 25, 1485

Henry won the throne when his forces defeated the forces of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the culmination of the Wars of the Roses. Henry was the last king of England to win his throne on the field of battle. Henry was successful in restoring the power and stability of the English monarchy after the political upheavals of the civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses.