
The Timeline | 11th C | 12th C | 13th C | 14th C | 15th C | 16th C | 17th C | 18th C | 19th C | 20th C
YEAR |
MONARCH |
POLITICAL EVENTS AND CONFLICTS |
SOCIAL HISTORY AND EPIDEMICS |
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES |
NOTABLE EVENTS |
1000 | Sweyn | The Mark unit of currency | West Saxon, Mercian and Danish Law governs England | ||
1002 | Ethelred's massacre of the Danes | ||||
1014 | Ethelred II The Unready | ||||
1016 | The Danish Viking Canute (Cnut) son of Sweyn has victory at Ashington | ||||
1031 | Canute's Scotland campaigns | ||||
1042 | Edward The Confessor | Edward's Court of Normandy | French & Latin courtly languages | ||
1050 | Westminster Abbey founded, building began | ||||
1065 | Harold II the last Saxon | Edward dies 5th January Witan declares Harold king on 6th January |
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1066 | William I of Normandy The Conqueror 25th December |
Battle of Hastings | Bayeux Tapestry attributed to Matilda of Flanders, William I's wife or to Bishop Odo | The Norman Conquest | |
1072 | Building of Durham Castle commenced | ||||
1075 | Uprisings of Hereford, Norfolk and Northumberland quashed | ||||
1077 | First Cluniac House at Lewes (Benedictine Order) | ||||
1079 | Building of Winchester Cathedral commenced | ||||
1083 | Ely Cathedral commenced on former nunnery site | ||||
1086 | Domesday book completed | Henry, Holy Roman Emperor & German King born (last Salian dynasty) | |||
1087 | William II 26th September |
Introduction of Feudalism | Normanization of England | ||
1093 | Greatest scholar is Anselm of Beck | ||||
1095 | First Crusade | ||||
1096 | William Rufus embarks on First Crusade | ||||
1097 | Stephen born Blois France | ||||
1099 | Ranierus becomes Pope Paschal II - fosters the First Crusade |