A short list

Facts

A compact reminder. The longer wording, and the disagreements, are on the topic pages and in the fact-check log.

The span of this site

1066 to 1509: from the Norman Conquest to the death of Henry VII.

Other end-dates in view

Historic England lists Medieval 1066 to 1540. English Heritage often uses 1066–1485.

Hastings

14 October 1066. William was crowned on Christmas Day.

Domesday

Ordered at Christmas 1085, undertaken the following year. A land survey, not a census.

Magna Carta

Sealed at Runnymede on 15 June 1215, in The National Archives’ wording. Reissued; 1225 became the definitive version; 1297 went onto the Statute Book.

The Black Death in England

Reached Melcombe Regis, now Weymouth, in 1348. June or August, depending on the source.

The Peasants’ Revolt

1381. Failed as a social revolution; the poll tax was not levied again for more than 250 years.

Bosworth

22 August 1485. Traditional end of the Wars of the Roses; some historians prefer Stoke in 1487.