Medieval key dates

• 789


  First viking raid
• 866


  Vikings captured York
• 1066


  Normans invaded England
• 1070


  William appoints Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1070's


  William invites jews (for money)
• after 1135


  more jews started to migrate to england
• 1351


  Henry 3 invited weavers from the low countries to weave cloth from Eng. wool
• 1016


  Saxons surrender against Vikings - Cnut became king
• 1066


  Battle of hastings
• 1069-1070


  Harrying of the North
• 1190


  All jews killed in York - in the Clifford's tower massacre
• 1218


  Jews forced to wear yellow cloth patch for identification
• 1230's 


  jews expelled from towns eg: leicester and newcastle
• 1265


  pope allowed italian bankers to charge interest on loans
• 1275


  edward 1 banned jews from collecting interest - left them very poor
• 1290


  jews ordered to convert to Christianity or leave England
• 1303


  Hansa merchants given the right to trade timber, furs and honey - received royal protection and lower tax rates
• 1348


  The black death
• 1378


  denization introduced
• 1381


  peasants revolt