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From the 1st century to 650 C.E., the Slavic people migrated to eastern Europe.
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One of the most important figures of the Late Antiquity and the last emperor to speak latin as a first language.
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The defeat of the first Bulgarian Empire ocurred in 1018. The Byzantines had taken the Empire over.
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The East-West Schism divided medieval Christianity into Eatern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches, which later became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Byzantine Empire was beginning to approach it's end at this time. Turkish attack was inevitable.
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The great city of Constantinople was captured by the Christian Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade.
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The city of Constantinople was successfully captured a second time by the Ottoman Turks. This was the end of the Byzantine Empire.
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According to legend, Rurik was the king of Kievan Russia at this time.
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In 870 C.E., the first kingdom in what is now Czech Republic and Slovakia was formed.
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The establishment of the Polish state is often identified with the adoption of christianity by its ruler Mieszko I, in 966, when the state covered territory similar to that of present day Poland.
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The beginning of the work of the brothers Cyril and Methodius as missionaries in the Slavic lands.
