Magna Carta
1215 · Event
King John signs the charter limiting royal power; foundation for rule of law.
On these timelines: Magna Carta, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Magna Carta
- First Barons' War (1215)
- Death of King John (1216)
- The charter reissued for a boy king (1216)
- The pope annuls the charter (1215)
- The barons take London (1215)
- Battle of Lincoln (1217) (1217)
- The Charter of the Forest (1217)
- Papal interdict on England (1208)
Around 1215
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Rumi's Masnavi (1258)
- Mongol invasion of Rus' (1237)