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476
Last Roman emperor is deposed
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523
Justinian marries Theodora
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541
The Bubonic plague suddenly appears in Egypt and spreads quickly
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552
Justinian recevives stolen silkworms from china to make his own silk
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562
The Byzantine and Persian empires signa peace treaty
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572
Byzantine Emperor Justin 2 breaks peace with Persia and invades Nisibis
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Jan 29, 600
Smallpox appearsin Europe for the first time
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Feb 5, 607
The Pantheon in Rome is converted into a church
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Feb 5, 623
Muhammad dies
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Feb 5, 661
Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib is assassinated
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Feb 5, 674
The first Arab siege of Constantinople begins
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Feb 5, 707
The Byzantines lose the Balearic Islands to the Moors
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Feb 5, 716
The Ummayads conquer Lisbon
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Feb 12, 745
Bubonic plague in constantinople sweeps through Europe
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Feb 12, 774
Charlemagne conquers the kingdom of Lombard
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Feb 12, 777
Charlemagne defeats the Saxons
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Feb 12, 1010
Beowulf is written anonymously
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Feb 12, 1037
George Maniaces begins a campain against the Arabs in Sicily
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Feb 12, 1046
The first contact occurs between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuks
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Feb 12, 1055
The Seljuk Turks capture Bagdad
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Feb 14, 1094
The Almoravid campaign to regain the city fails
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Feb 14, 1116
Baldwin 1 of Jerusalem undertakes an invasion of Egypt
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Feb 14, 1119
Knights Templar founded by Hugh de Payns
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Feb 14, 1137
Louis the 7th is crowned King of France
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Feb 14, 1145
Pope Eugene 3rd issuse the bull quantum praedecessores,calling for the Second Crusade
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Feb 14, 1155
Frederick 1st barbarossa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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Feb 14, 1163
The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa
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Feb 14, 1183
Saladin conquers Syria and becomes sultan
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Feb 14, 1193
Pope Celestine 3rd calls for a crusade against pagans in Northern Europe
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Feb 14, 1214
Philip 2nd of France defeats John of England
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Feb 14, 1219
Damietta, Egypt falls to the Crusaders after a siege
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Feb 14, 1220
The Mongols first invade the Abbasid Caliphate
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Feb 14, 1233
The inquisition is established
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Feb 14, 1249
King Louis 9th of France captures Damietta in Egypt
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Feb 14, 1290
King Edward 1st of England orders all Jews to leave England
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Cerdic and Cynric land somewhere on the south coast of Great Britain
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Lombards convert to Christianity
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Cadwaladr launches the last weish offensive against the Saxons in Britain
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Paolo Lucio Anafesto is elected the first Doge of Venice
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Charlemagne conquers Bavaria
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Widukind and manyother Saxons are baptized
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The Darnish king Harald Klak accepts Christianity
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The Norse town of Dyflinn or Dublin is founded in Ireland
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First siege of Constantinople by the Rus
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Rurik gains control of Novgorod
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The Vikings besiege Paris
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Oleg leads the Kievan Rus' in a campain against Constantinople
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Oleg of Nogorod takes Kiev
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Carles the Fat becomes King of Western Francia
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The Moors lose Madrid to the Leons
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King Edmund 1 takes Northumbria
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Olga of Kiev converts to Eastern Orthodox
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Nicephorous 2 begins a compain to recapture Cilicia
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The Pechengs begin the Siege of Kiev