1100–1199 (A.D.) World History

Chartres Cathedral Tasha Vincent

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.