High Middle Ages in Europe
1000–1300 · Event
Europe's three centuries of expansion — population boom, cathedrals, universities, crusades and the formation of states — between the millennium and the Black Death's eve.
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Around 1000
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- The Tale of Genji written (1008)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- William the Conqueror (1028)
- The Tale of Genji (1008)