Events in Science & History
12th Century
1100s
About 1100:
Magnetic compass in use in China. Sinochi Roca becomes the first King
of the Incas.
1110s
1120s
1130s
1140s
1150s
1150: First
rockets used in China. University of Paris founded.
1155: Oldest known printed
map produced in China.
1157: Richard the Lionheart
is born
1160s
1167 or 1168: Formal
foundation of the University of Oxford.
1170s.
1174: Construction
of the Tower of Pisa begins.
1180s
1190s
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- Compiled by D. Brewer - April 2000a