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14 October 1066
Battle of Hastings

25 December 1066
William the Conqueror crowned

2 June 1070
Hereward loots Peterborough

1 August 1086
Domesday Book published

9 September 1087
William Rufus becomes king

27 November 1095
First Crusade is called

15 August 1100
Henry I crowned

22 December 1135
Stephen is crowned

8 April 1141
Matilda named queen

25 October 1154
Henry II becomes king

29 December 1170
Murder of Thomas Becket

17 October 1171
Henry II lands in Ireland

3 September 1189
Coronation of Richard I

13 March 1194
Richard I released from captivity

27 May 1199
John becomes king

19 June 1215
Magna Carta

21 May 1216
Prince Louis lands at Sandwich

18 October 1216
Henry III's accession

11 June 1258
Simon de Montfort's rebellion

25 September 1267
Treaty of Montgomery

2 August 1274
Edward I returns

11 December 1282
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd killed

18 March 1286
Death of Alexander III of Scotland

18 July 1290
Expulsion of the Jews

13 June 1291
Edward I recognised as Scotland's overlord

7 February 1301
Investiture of prince of Wales

23 August 1305
William Wallace charged with treason

25 March 1306
Robert Bruce declares himself king of Scots

7 July 1307
Edward II becomes king

19 June 1312
Piers Gaveston executed

23 June 1314
Battle of Bannockburn

25 January 1327
Edward II deposed

13 November 1330
Edward III assumes power

24 May 1337
Hundred Years War begins

5 October 1338
French sack Southampton

24 June 1340
Battle of Sluys

23 June 1348
Black Death hits England

21 June 1377
Richard II becomes king

12 June 1381
Peasants' Revolt

30 September 1399
Richard II renounces the throne

16 September 1400
Owain Glyndwr proclaimed prince of Wales

22 March 1406
James I of Scotland captured

20 March 1413
Henry V comes to the throne

9 January 1414
Lollard plot

25 October 1415
Battle of Agincourt

31 August 1422
Henry VI becomes king

16 December 1431
Henry VI crowned king of France

17 July 1453
Hundred Years War ends

22 May 1455
Wars of the Roses begin

29 March 1461
Yorkists claim the throne

13 September 1470
Henry VI reinstated

4 May 1471
Edward IV regains the throne

30 April 1483
Edward V abducted

6 July 1483
Richard III crowned

22 August 1485
Battle of Bosworth

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