• 1200  Paris became a major capital
     engagement rings became fashionable
     Cambridge University founded
     Islam began replacing Indian religions
     Alcohol used for medical purposes
     cymbals introduced as musical instrument
  • 1202  Fourth Crusade began
     first court jesters appeared at European courts
  • 1204  Crusaders take Constantinople
     Emperor Michael set up Greek kingdom of Epirus
     founding of Amsterdam
     Leonardo Pisano used 0 (zero) for first time
    in Europe
  • 1207  Liverpool was founded
  • 1208  King John invaded Scotland, was excommunicated
     Otto IV crowned Emperor in Rome
  • 1211  Genghis Khan invaded China
  • 1212  Children's Crusade
     tile replaced thatch & wooden roofs in London
  • 1214  Genghis Khan captured Peking
  • 1215  King John signed the Magna Carta
  • 1217  Fifth Crusade began by attacking Egypt
  • 1218  Genghis Khan conquered Persia
     construction began on Newgate Prison, London
  • 1219  Denmark introduced Europe's first national flag
  • 1220  first giraffes shown in Europe
  • 1221  Vienna became a city
  • 1223  Mongols invaded Russia
  • 1225  Magna Carta reissued in definative form
     cotton manufactured in Spain
  • 1226  Louis IX (the saint), king of France
  • 1227  Japanese potter Toshiro started porcelain
    manufacture
  • 1228  Sixth Crusade began
     Francis of Assisi cannonized
  • 1230  leprosy imported to Europe by returning crusaders
     founding of Berlin
  • 1233  coal mined for first time, Newcastle, England
  • 1234  Korean Buddhist texts printed with movable type
  • 1237  Mongols conquered Russia
  • 1240  border fixed between England & Scotland
  • 1242  first record of a ship convoy
     English monk Roger Bacon described formula for
    making gunpowder
  • 1244  Berlin mentioned for first time
  • 1248  Genoese take Rhodes
     seventh Crusade, led by Louis IX
  • 1249  Roger Bacon recorded existance of explosives
  • 1250  hats came into fashion
     goose quill used for writing
     Naval warfare dominated by galleys
  • 1251  Kublai Khan became Govenor of China
  • 1252  Inquisition began to use instruments of torture
     Stockholm founded
  • 1253  lines first manufactured in England
  • 1255  Prague and Stockholm became towns
  • 1256  Hundred Year War between Venice & Genoa
  • 1257  Llywelyn assumed title, Prince of Wales
  • 1263  Haakon of Norway defeated by Scots
     Balliol College, Oxford founded
  • 1266  Balban, sultan of Delhi
  • 1267  Aztecs arrived in Valley of Mexico
  • 1269  first toll roads in England
  • 1271  Marco Polo traveled to China
  • 1274  Edward I, crowned at Westminster
  • 1275  Marco Polo in service of Kublai Khan
  • 1278  invention of the glass mirror
  • 1280  Eric II, Norway, crowned
     Kublai Khan founded Yuan dynasty in China
  • 1282  Florence lead Europe in commerce & finance
  • 1283  Teutonic Order completed suppression of Prussia
  • 1284  the Pied Piper of Hamelin is said to have appeared
     sequins first made in Venice
  • 1287  Mongol invasion of Burma
  • 1289  block printing practiced in Ravenna
  • 1290  Lisbon University founded
     invention of spectacles
  • 1291  end of Crusades
  • 1292  Scottish throne to John Baliol
  • 1294  Kublai Khan died
  • 1297  moas, giant giraffe birds of New Zealand died out
     William Wallace expelled English from Scotland
  • 1298  Edward I, King of England, defeats Wallace,
    retook Scotland
  • 1299  treaty between Venice & the Turks
     treaty between France & Germany
  • Fuedal System is over
    Fuedal system ended with signing of Magna Carta
    Crusader Crusaders fought to rid the Holy Land of infidels
    Crusades
    a battle scene of the Crusades
    Aztec Temple of the Sun
    Aztec Temple of the Sun
    Tapestry depicting Marco Polo's Journey
    Tapestry depicting Marco Polo's Journey
    St.Louis (the IX) King Louis IX later to become St. Louis
    Kublai Khan
    Kublai Khan, Governor of China




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