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| 1154 |
| | | The inhabitants of Damascus surrender their city to Nur ed-Din, helping him greatly in his campaign against the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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| 1264 |
| | | Simon de Montfort, leading the barons in rebellion, captures Henry III and his son Edward at Lewes | |
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| 1265 |
| | | Prince Edward, escaping from captivity, defeats and kills Simon de Montfort at Evesham | |
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| 1281 |
| | | An incident in a church service sparks the uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers, in which 2000 French are killed overnight in Sicily | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | William Tell, a figure of legend, epitomizes the struggle of the Swiss farmers against their feudal overlords, the Habsburgs | |
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| 1381 |
| | | A poll tax imposed in England provokes widespread unrest, which flares up in the Peasants' Revolt | |
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| 1381 |
| | | Wat Tyler, leader of the Kentish rebels, meets Richard II at Smithfield - before being struck and wounded by the Lord Mayor of London | |
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| 1398 |
| | | A dangerous feud develops between two of England's most powerful barons, Henry of Bolingbroke (son of John of Gaunt) and Thomas de Mowbray | |
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| 1398 |
| | | Richard II banishes Thomas de Mowbray for life and Henry of Bolingbroke for ten years | |
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| 1399 |
| | | John of Gaunt dies and Richard II denies Henry of Bolingbroke his Lancastrian inheritance, declaring Gaunt's vast estates forfeit to the crown | |
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