- 1054 -- schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
branches of
the church
- 1066 -- the battle of Hastings: William of Normandy
conquers
England
- 1085 -- the conquest of Toledo (El Cid)
- 1096-1099 -- the first Crusade
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- 1130 -- Roger II of Sicily (another Norman) consolidates
southern
Italy
- 1147-1149 -- the second Crusade
- 1169 -- England invades Ireland
- 1189-1192 -- the third Crusade
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- 1202-1204 -- the fourth Crusade; the Eastern Roman Empire
collapses
- 1209-1229 -- Albigensian religious wars in southern France
- 1215 -- King John signs the Magna Carta
- 1228-1229 -- the fifth Crusade
- 1231 -- the Inquisition begins
- 1245 -- the Mongols dominate Russia (until 1480!)
- 1248-1254 -- the sixth Crusade
- 1270 -- the seventh Crusade
- 1290 -- the Jews expelled from England
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- 1306 -- the Jews expelled from France
- 1327 -- the 100 Years War between England and France begins
- 1347-1354 -- the Black Death (1/4 to 1/3 of population dead
in
areas
affected)
- 1378-1417 -- the Great Schism: popes in Rome and Avignon
- 1389 -- the Battle of Kosovo: Serbs defeated by Turks
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