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The end of Danish rule in Britain is marked with the arrival of William the Conqueror, but it's not the end to the fighting, however at least we get the Domesday Book to read! |
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1002 |
Ehtlered attempts to rid Britain of the Danes with the Massacre of St. Brice's Day |
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1016 |
Canute becomes King of England |
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1066 |
The Battle of Hastings, William I defeats Harold |
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1086 |
The Domesday Book is compiled |
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1100 |
William Rufus killed in the New Forest |
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1170 |
Thomas Becket murdered in Canterbury Catherdral |
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1215 |
King John signs the Magna Charta |
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1258 |
Simon De Montfort forces Henry III to sign the Provisions of Oxford |
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1298 |
Death of Roger Bacon, the founder of experimental science |
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1314 |
Battle of Bannockburn |
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1338 |
Beginning of the Hundred Years War with France |
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1349 |
The Black Death reached England (Scotland 1350) |
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1362 |
English becomes the official language in Parliament and the Law Courts |
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1381 |
Watt Tyler leads the Peasants Revolt |
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1400 |
Owen Glendower leads the revolt in Wales |
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1455 |
Beginning of the War of the Roses |
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1476 |
Caxton sets up his printing press in Westminster |
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1485 |
Battle of Bosworth Field marks the beginning of the Tudor Era |
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