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| - (OK, it's the same as OTL, but I wanted to make a list in preparation for what comes later.) 1209-29: France eradicates the Albigensians. 1214: Battle of Bouvines, France wins; Angevine Empire ends 1215: Magna Carta in England. 4th Lateran council. Teachings of Cathars and Waldensians condemned, Jews are forced to wear the infamous special hats. 1216: Order of the Dominicans founded. 1217: Civil War in Norway between the Baglers and Birkebeiners ends. 1220-30: German Customary Law written down in the so-called Sachsenspiegel. 1221: Bonaventura (Franciscans) born. 1223: Franciscans acknowledged by the pope. 1225/26: Thomas of Aquin born. 1226: France becomes hereditary monarchy. 1227: Denmark loses Northern Germany in the Battle of Bornhöved. German poet Walther von der Vogelweide dies. 1229-35: Aragon conquers the Baleares. 1230: Castille united with Leon by Hernando III the Holy. He conquers Cordoba, Murcia, Jaen, Sevilla; Muslims reduced to Granada. 1231: Papal Inquisition created. 1233/34: The bishop of Bremen calls for a "crusade" against the peasants of Stedingerland, which they lose. 1237: Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich II defeats the Lombard army at Cortenuovo. 1241: Friedrich II occupies the Papal states. In the same year, his enemy Gregor IX dies. After the short papacy of Coelestin IV there's a time of two years when there's no Pope. 1246: The French side line Anjou founded. In the same year, they get the Provence. 1250: Friedrich II dies. Birger Jarl ruler in Sweden. Portugal conquers the Algarve. In Florence, the people elect for the first time the 36 caporali di popolo, a political counterweight to the nobles.
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