-1000-1050 The mail shirt which formed the basic armour of a Dark Age warrior is refined and extended to become a knee-Iength hauberk, sometimes supplemented by leggings and mittens of mail.
-1050-75 Development of technique of charge with couched lance, basis of knights' military supremacy.
-1084 Pope Gregory VII names the knights of Robert Guiscard 'Knights of Christ'.
-1096 Millitary activity specifically linked to religous goals in the First Crusade.
-1119 Knights Templar founded.
-1128 First recorded dubbing, of Geoffrey of Anjou.
-1130 Council of Clermont forbids tournaments.
-1140's Knights Hospitaller incorporated as a military order.
-1164 Foundation of the Order of Calatrava.
-1175 Recognition of the Order of Santiago
-1183 Foundation of the Order of Alcantara.
-1190 Foundation of the Teutonic Knights.
-1219 Death of William Marshal.
-1223 First recorded tournament in Arthurian dress.
-1227 "Venusfahrt" of Ulrich von Lichtenstein.
-1233 Teutonic Knights found Kulm and Thorn and set out to conquer Prussia.
-1237 Teutonic Knights absorb Brethern of the Sword.
-1240 "Artusfahrt" of Ulrich von Lichtenstein.
-1240-50 The Ordene de chealerie written.
-1241 80 knights suffocated at tournament of Neuss.
-1250 First surviving heraldic Rolls written.
-1273 The "Little Battle of Chalons" tournament.
-1285 Tournament at Chauvency.
-1290 Heraldic treatise De heraudie written.
-1307 Knights Hospitaller settle on Rhodes.
-1309 Teutonic Knights capture Danzig.
-1310 Knights Hospitaller occupy Rhodes.
-1312 Knights Templar suppressed by Pope Clement IV under pressure from Philip IV
-1314 Grand MAster and other burnt at stake.
-1330 Secular orders of knighthood: Order of the Band founded by Alfonso XI of Castile.
-1348 Order of the Garer founded by Edward I of England.
-1351 Order of the Star founded by John the Good of France.
-1352 Order of the Knot founded by Louis of Naples.
-1355 Order of the GOlden Buckle, by Emperor Charles IV.
-1362 "The Great Company" besiege Agignon.
-1370 Berrand du Guesclin made Constable of France.
-1410 Battle of Tannenberg-Teutonic Knights defeated by Poles, their power shattered.
-1430 Order of the Golden Fleece founded by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
-1434 Passo Honroso held by Suero de Quinones.
-1435 Hospitallers successfully repel Turkish attack on Rhodes.
-1454 The Vows of the Pheasant Lille.
-1457 Poles take Marienburg from Teutonic Knights.
-1466 Teutonic Knights give Western Prussia back to Poland at the Treaty of Thorn.
-1468 Tourney and feast at marriage of Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
-1480 Hospitallers once more repel Turkish assault on Rhodes by Ottoman Turks.
-1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold tournament near Calais.
-1522 Hospitallers dislodged from Rhodes by forces of Suleiman the Magnificent-move to Malta, 1529.
-1525 Teutonic Knights turn Lutheran and secularize their state.
-1565 Hospitallers successfully defend their fortress on Malta from an attack by the massed armies of the Ottoman Empire.