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1203AD ''Nibelungenlied written in Germany. Incas begin to settle in Peru''. | 1203AD ''Nibelungenlied written in Germany. Incas begin to settle in Peru''. | ||
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Contents
Eleventh Century
±1000 AD Venice begins to evolve as a great commercial centre.
Norwegian Vikings reach North America.
1016AD The Danish conqueror Canute becomes King of England
1054AD The Byzantine Church breaks with Rome.
William of Normandy wins battle of Hastings and becomes King of England
±1075AD Wool-manufacturing towns of Flanders help to revive European trade.
1080-1140AD Peter Abelard writes letters to Héloïse.
William IX, Duke of Normandy – the first known troubadour.
1087AD The Moslems build Timbuktu as a centre of commerce and learning.
±1090AD The Song of Roland composed in Medieval French. Chinese text mentions use of the compass by Arabs.
1095-1099AD First Crusade captures Jerusalem.
Twelfth Century
±1100-1200AD Chanson de Roland written. Growth of drama in China after Mongol take-over
2nd Crusade (1147-1149AD).
Growth of drama in China after Mongol take-over
1123AD Omar Khayyam (?-1123), poet and astronomer, dies
1153AD The Islamic geographer Idrisi’s The Pleasure of the Ardent Inquirer, containing his circular map of the world.
1163AD Notre Dame Cathedral begun in Paris
1170AD Thomas à Beckett murdered in Canterbury. Mystère d’Adam performed in France.
1187AD Saladin defeats the crusaders and takes Jerusalem.
1189-1192AD 3rd Crusade.
Thirteenth Century
1202-1204AD The height of the Great Zimbabwe tradition of settlement by the Shona (±1200-1300AD); 4th Crusade.
1203AD Nibelungenlied written in Germany. Incas begin to settle in Peru.
1209AD Cambridge University founded.
1215AD Magna Carta signed in England.
1217AD Beginning of 5th–7thCrusades (1217-1254AD).
±1235AD Le Roman de la Rose begun (±1235-77AD).
1258AD Mapungupwe starts becoming the dominant power in the Limpopo Valley. The Mongol Hulagu Khan takes Baghdad ending Abbasid rule.
1259AD Hulagu Khan sets up an observatory at Maraga, Persia.
±1265AD Marco Polo begins his travels.
±1285AD Spectacles made in Northern Italy.
1291AD Vessels from Genoa circumnavigate Africa, past Cape of Storms. Aztecs enter and begin to settle Mexico.
1292AD Marco Polo discovers a Moslem kingdom on Sumatra.
1295AD Ghazan Khan the Mongol converted to Islam.
Fourteenth Century
c. 1363 – c. 1443 Zeami writes his plays and theories of acting in Japan.
Fifteenth Century
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