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This timeline is going to have 10 events that happened in Europe between 350-1200.
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The Visigoths moved west in 406, and destroyed Rome They did this because they had become restless. The Visigoth invasion triggered an invasion of the Germans as well, who made thier way across the Rhine frontier. They marched huge distances, destroying every building in their path. Finally, a German leader sent the last Roman emperor into retirement, destroying the Roman Empire permanently.
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During Justinian's reign, (527-565), his was one of the most successful emperors in the Byzantine Empire. He recaptured much of North Africa, Italy, and Southern Spain. While many of the territories were lost after his death, he left a lasting achievment. He had reformed the laws of the empire, which formed the basis of Byzantine law.
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Bede was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, both in the Kingdom of Northumbria. Bede's monastry had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius among many. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The Father of English History".
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During Emperor Leo III's reign, he ordered the destruction of icons. Icons are holy images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or the saints. Many people refused to give them up. In 731, Pope Gregory III decided that it was wrong to not allow the honoring of icons. This was known as the Ironoclast Controversy. Because of the Ironoclast Controversy, there was much friction between the Pope Gregory III in Rome, and Emperor Leo III in Constantinople.
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Yaroslav the Wise was Kievan state's greatest king. He ruled from 1019 to 1054. He made many cultural and administrative improvments. He introduced Russia's first law code, known as Russkaya Pravda. He also built many churches. Unfortunately, after his rule ended, a group known as the Mongols conquered or destroyed almost every city in Kievan Russia.
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William I usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. The descendant of Viking raiders, he had been Duke of Normandy since 1035 under the style William II. After a long struggle to establish his power, by 1060 his hold on Normandy was secure, and he launched the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
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Roger I, Norman conqueror of Sicily; son of Tancred de Hauteville. He went to Italy in 1058 to join his brother, Robert Guiscard, in conquering Apulia and Calabria from the Byzantines. Between 1061 and 1091 he took Sicily from the Arabs. After the fall (1072) of Palermo he became count of Sicily under Robert's suzerainty. Robert's death (1085) left Roger the most powerful Norman lord in S Italy, and he ruled the various ethnic groups in his feudal domain justly and tolerantly.
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John XIX was Pope from 1024 to 1032. He succeeded his brother, Pope Benedict VIII, both being members of the powerful house of Tusculum. When elected Pope John XIX he was an unordained layman. Therefore, he was ordained a bishop in order to enable him to ascend the papal chair, having previously been a consul and senator. Against the grain of ecclesiastical history, John XIX agreed, upon being paid with a large bribe, to grant to the Patriarch of Constantinople the title of an ecumenical bishop
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Emperor Leo III had begun to question the use of icons, saying that people were wrong to worship them. However, Pope Gregory III said that icons should be allowed to be honored. Eventually, people started to get into arguements about whether or not icons should be worshipped or not. This created the Great Schism in the church. The church in the west became the Roman Catholic Church with the pope as it's leader, and the church in the east became the Orthodox Church.
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Vladimir the Great was a grand prince of Kiev, ruler of Kievan Rus' in 980–1015. Vladimir's father was the prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty. After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus. In Sweden with the help from his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaro
