My glorious padlet by James Butt

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An unknown poet composes Beowulf, the oldest known epic poem in English

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Geoffrey Chaucer begins the Canterbury Tales

27053jb — 2024-09-24 18:20:26 UTC

Germanic tribes invade Britain

27241ml — 2024-09-24 18:20:59 UTC

The western Roman Empire falls

27053jb — 2024-09-24 18:21:09 UTC

Danish invasions begin

27241ml — 2024-09-24 18:21:52 UTC

Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is born in Mecca

27053jb — 2024-09-24 18:21:52 UTC

William the Conqueror invades England

27241ml — 2024-09-24 18:22:46 UTC

Leif Eriksson sails to North America from Greenland

27053jb — 2024-09-24 18:22:51 UTC

Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered

27241ml — 2024-09-24 18:23:14 UTC

First Crusade captures Jerusalem

27053jb — 2024-09-24 18:23:29 UTC

Hundred Years’ War, a series of wars between England and France, begins

27053jb — 2024-09-24 18:24:00 UTC

The Black Death sweeps through England

27241ml — 2024-09-24 18:24:23 UTC

Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in France during three Hundred Years’ War

27053jb — 2024-09-24 18:24:27 UTC

The Peasants’ Revolt is suppressed

27241ml — 2024-09-24 18:25:12 UTC

The Gutenberg Bible is printed from movable type in Germany