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960
Song Taizu founds the Song dynasty in China
976
Basil II rebuilds the Byzantine empire (until 1026)
983
The Vikings start a colony in Greenland
1000
Leif Ericson reaches North America
1013
The Danes conquer England
1054
Orthodox and Catholic churches split
1066
The Normans of France conquer England
1096
The First Crusade (until 1099)
1113
Angkor Wat in Thailand is built
1122
Eleanor of Aquitaine born
1127
The Jin conquer northern China and the Song retreat to Hangzhou
1133
Henry of Anjou born – death 1189
1137
Founding of Ethiopia by the Zagwe dynasty
1139
Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Louis VII of France; marriage annulled
1152
Henry marries Eleanor of Aquitaine
1154
Henry becomes king of England
1157
Birth of Richard I of England (the Lionheart) – death 1199
1166
Rory O’Connor becomes the first king of Ireland since 1014
1170
Murder of Thomas a Becket (becomes a saint in 1173)
1170
Norman invasion of Ireland
1180
Gempei civil war in Japan and the rise of the shoguns (until 1185)
1187
Saladin wins back Jerusalem
1189
Jewish massacre in York, England
1189
The Third Crusade (until 1192)
1200
Peak of the political power of the Roman Catholic Church
1200
Rise of the Aztecs and the Incas
1202
The Fourth Crusade ransacks Constantinople (until 1204)
1204
Norman Crusaders capture Constantinople
1209
Franciscan order receives papal approval
1212
The Children’s Crusade
1215
Death of last Angkor king, Jayavarman VII (southeast Asia)
1215
King John signs the Magna Carta
1225
The Magna Carta becomes the law of England
1234
The Mongols conquer northern China and exile the Jin
1238
Invasion of Russia by the Mongols
1241
Collapse of Hungary after the Mongol raids
1248
The Christians reconquer most of Spain
1260
Peak of Bohemian power
1261
Byzantines retake Constantinople
1271
The travels of Marco Polo to China (until 1295)
1272
Edward I becomes king of England (until 1307)
1279
The Mongols conquer southern China and the Song dynasty ends