1026: Battle of the Helgea (off the coast of Sweden): Naval forces of King Cnut the Great's North
Sea Empire defeat the combined Swedish and Norwegian royal fleets.

1045: Edward the Confessor marries Edith of Wessex,[2] and begins construction of Westminster Abbey
in England.

1054: Jul 16 Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople

1092: Synod of Szabolcs in Hungary: Its decrees regulate the life of national clergy and laymen,
as well as the relation between Christians, Jews and Muslims.

1189: Richard I (The Lion Heart) becomes King Of England

1204: The fourth Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople.

1210: Nov 18 Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV

1250: Jul 3 Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while
he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself

1310: Aug 31 German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia

1291: Nov 28 Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, dies in Northamptonshire. Crosses
are erected where her body rests on the way to London

1320: Apr 6 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath

1291: May 18 Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil and his forces take the last Christian stronghold of
Acre

1341: Apr 14 Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo

1380: Nov 16 French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever

1560: Floating Dry Dock is first used in Venice, Venetian Republic.