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Timeline of Significant Medieval Events
Late Roman / Very Early Medieval
410
- Visigoths sack Rome
432 - St Patrick arrives in Ireland
449 - Anglo Saxons arrive in Britain
563 - St Columba sails to Iona
568 - Lombards invade Italy
Early Medieval
627 - Byzantium conquers Persia
735 - Bede writes the Ecclesiastical History
793 - Vikings raid Lindisfarne
800 - Danish invaders found Dublin
800 - Charlemagne crowned Emperor
871 - Alfred the Great becomes King
899 - Death of Alfred the Great
991 - Battle of Maldon
1016 - Knut becomes King of England
1040 - Macbeth defeats Duncan to become King
1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 - William of Normandy invades England
High Medieval Period
1085
- Domesday Book
1099 - Crusaders take Jerusalem (First Crusade)
1167 - Normans begin their invasion of Ireland
1187 - Muslims capture Jerusalem
1204 - King John loses Normandy
1204 - Constantinople sacked by the Fourth Crusade
1215 - Magna Carta signed
1216 - Foundation of the Dominincan Order
1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge
Late Medieval
1337 - The Hundred Years War begins
1346 - Battle of Crécy
1381 - The Peasants Revolt
1356 - The Battle of Poitiers
1415 - Battle of Agincourt
1453 - Turks capture Constantinople - end of the Holy Roman
Empire in the East
1475 - End of the Hundred Years War
1481 - Spanish Inquisition begins
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