I have just finished a series of blog posts on key points in Welsh history. Normally I write about medieval times, and there’s a great post on the History Extra website that does the same for the medieval period. Here are the 10 dates that Ellie Cawthorne, the writer, picked as the most important:
1066: The battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest
1085: The Domesday Book is completed
1095: The First Crusade is decreed
1170: Thomas Becket is murdered
1215: Magna Carta is signed
1314: The battle of Bannockburn
1348: The Black Death comes to Britain
1381: The Peasants’ Revolt
1415: Henry V defeats the French at Agincourt
1485: Richard III is defeated at the battle of Bosworth