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Before the War | 1066: William I (of Normandy) invades England, defeating Harold at the battle of Hastings
1154: Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and Acquitaine, ascends the English throne 1325: The War of St. Sardos fought over Edward II's refusal to pay homage |
1259: Henry III surrenders his claim to Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine and Poitou, agreeing to hold remaining Plantagenet lands in France by liege homage 1327: Edward III crowned king of England 1328: Philip of Valois crowned king of France 1329: Edward III does simple homage for Acquitaine, but refuses to do liege homage |
1303: Benedict XI elected Pope and moves to Avignon | c1300-01: First mechanical clock 1321: Dante finishes Divine Comedy 1326: What may be the first cannon is fired by Rinaldo di Villamagna |
1330s | 1337: Philip VI confiscates the Acquitaine; Edward III claims the throne of France | 1334-7: French harass the frontiers of Acquitaine while their privateers cruise the eastern coast of England
1336: English pirates raiding French coast and shipping |
c1334: Jean Froissart born | |
1340s | 1340: French navy defeated at Sluys 1346: Battle of Crécy |
c1343: Geoffrey Chaucer born | ||
1350s | 1350: Philip VI dies; succeeded by John II
1356: Battle of Poitiers. John II captured by Prince Edward of Woodstock |
1357: The Lay-Folks Catechism by John Thoresby, Archbishop of York, appears. It is in English verse and is designed to instill a basic knowledge of the faith in the laity. | ||
1360s | 1360: Treaty of Bretigny: Acquitaine surrendered to the English 1361: The Great Company (routiers) besieges Avignon 1364: John II dies; succeeded by Charles V 1369: Charles V confiscates Acquitaine; hostilities recommence |
1367: Richard of Bordeaux (II) born | ||
1370s | 1374, January: at Périgueux, Lancaster and du Gesclin agree to truce in Acquitaine 1375, June: Further truce to last for 2 years and covering all of France 1375-77: a peace council meets in Brussels. Cardinals as negotiators; the Duke of Lancaster and the Duke of Burgundy attend. Territorial compromise is reached but the sovereignty of Guyenne is still unsettled. 1377: Fifty ships of Franco-Castillian fleet carrying 4000 troops cross channel and sack Rye, inland raid to burn Lewes; then sail on to burn Plymouth 1377: Isle of Wight is overrun by French and inhabitants forced to buy them off 1377: Duke of Anjou and Constable invade Guyenne 1377, August: French fleet returns and burns Hastings; beaten off at Southampton and Poole. Uproar in England 1379: Lord Neville of Raby, Lieutenant, arrives in Bordeaux, raids in style of the French, sails up the Gironde and recaptures Mortagne. Said to have retaken over 80 towns in his lieutenancy, which lasts hardly more than a year Count Louis de Male begins war against the weavers of Ghent |
1376, April 28: The Good Parliament assembled July 6 or 10: The Good Parliament terminated 1377, January 27: Parliament convened. First poll tax granted (4p on everyone above the age of 14): extremely unpopular 1377, June 21 Edward III dies of a stroke 1377, June 22: Coronation of Richard of Bordeaux; Minority council appointed 1379: Graduated poll tax in England |
1378: Urban VI elected pope in Rome and Clement VII installed in Avignon at invitation of Charles V; the Great Schism has begun | |
1380s | 1381: Peasants' Revolt | 1382: in January: Richard II marries Anne of Bohemia | 1387: Chaucer writes Canterbury Tales | |
1390s | 1399: Richard II abdicates the throne of England | |||
1400s | 1400-05: Owen Glen Dwr rises against English rule in Wales | 1400: Geoffrey Chaucer dies
1405: Jean Froissart dies c1412: Joan of Arc born |
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1410s | 1415: Battle of Agincourt | 1417: The great Papal Schism ends with the General Council of the Church at Constance; Martin V becomes the single pope | ||
1420s | 1420: Treaty of Troyes; on June 2 Henry V marries Catherine Valois | |||
1430s | 1431: Joan of Arc burned at the stake | |||
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1450s | 1453, July: Battle of Castillon, last battle of the war
1453: Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople |
1455: "The War of the Roses," an English civil war, begins |
1454: Johannes Gutenberg perfects his movable type printing press |
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After the War | 1475: Edward IV invades France in alliance with the Duke of Burgundy | 1470: Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur |