| Event | 1 or 3 |
|---|
| Barbarossa became Holy Roman emperor | |
| First siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders | |
| Knights Templar founded | |
| William Wallace of Scotland hanged | |
| Saladin died of a fever | |
| Mansa Musa became Mali emperor | |
| Tower of Pisa completed | |
| William II became king of England | |
| Earliest evidence of teaching at Oxford | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio completed 'The Decameron' | |
| University of Bologna founded | |
| Production of paper began in Germany | |
| Mariner's compass invented in China | |
| Coal mined in England for the first time | |
| Eyeglasses invented in Italy | |
| Magna Carta signed | |
| First Crusade began | |
| Genghis Khan became Great Khan of the Mongols | |
| Hundred Years' War began | |
| Leif Erikson reached the American coast | |
| East-West Schism | |
| Bubonic Plague started to spread in Europe | |
| Notre Dame de Paris groundbreaking | |
| Marco Polo began his travels to Asia | |
| Norman Invasion of England | |
| Dante Alighieri published 'Divine Comedy' | |
| Institution known as the Inquisition founded | |
| Angkor Wat constructed by Khmer dynasty | |
| First record of windmills | |
| Aztecs found the city of Tenochtitlan | |
| Barbarossa became Holy Roman emperor | |
| First siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders | |
| Knights Templar founded | |
| William Wallace of Scotland hanged | |
| Saladin died of a fever | |
| Mansa Musa became Mali emperor | |
| Tower of Pisa completed | |
| William II became king of England | |
| Earliest evidence of teaching at Oxford | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio completed 'The Decameron' | |
| University of Bologna founded | |
| Production of paper began in Germany | |
| Mariner's compass invented in China | |
| Coal mined in England for the first time | |
| Eyeglasses invented in Italy | |
