1100–1199 (A.D.) World History

Updated February 28, 2017 | Infoplease Staff

Chartres Cathedral

Chartres Cathedral

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1100–1300: Construction of Cathedral at Chartres, France.

1144: Second Crusade begins.

c. 1150: Angkor Wat is completed.

1150–1167: Universities of Paris and Oxford founded in France and England.

1162: Thomas á Becket named Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered by Henry II's men (1170). Troubadours (wandering minstrels) glorify romantic concepts of feudalism.

1169: Ibn-Rushd begins translating Aristotle's works.

1189: Richard I (“the Lionhearted”) succeeds Henry II in England, killed in France (1199), succeeded by King John. Third Crusade.

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