The last Roman emperor in the West,Romulus Augustus,was deposed by the Foederati Chieftain,Odoacer.
523
Justinian marries Theodora.
525
The Angles settle in NE England in an area called Bernicia.
527
Justinian 1 becomes the Byzantine Emperor.
Jun 6, 615
The Edict of Paris grants extensive rights to the Frankish Nobility.
Jul 7, 615
Pippin of Landen becomes Mayor of the Austrasian Palace. The Turks invade China.
Sep 9, 620
Medina is converted to Islam.
Oct 10, 624
The Visigoths recapture Andalusia from the Byzantine Empire.
Nov 11, 626
The Byzantines defeat the Avars, Slavs, and Persian army that attempted to besiege Constantinople.
Dec 12, 671
Battle of Two Rivers: King Ecgfrith of Northumbria defeats the Picts.
Jan 2, 674
The first Arab siege of Constantinople begins.
Feb 3, 675
Frithuwold of Surrey is baptised and so is his son; Surrey becomes Christian. Arabs raid Crete.
May 7, 1037
George Maniaces begins a campaign against the Arabs in Sicily.
Feb 8, 1046
The first contact occurs between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks.
Jan 8, 1048
Last Viking raid on the Kingdom of England;unsuccessful raiders flee to Flanders.
Feb 6, 1055
The Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad.
Mar 5, 1072
The Normans conquer Palermo in Sicily.
Feb 7, 1119
Knights Templar Founded by Hugh de Payns.
Feb 11, 1137
Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Eleanor of Aquitaine daughter of William X.
Feb 7, 1144
The County of Edessa falls to Zengi of Mosul. Manuel I Comnenus brings Raymond, Prince of Antioch, under Byzantine influence.
Apr 7, 1145
Pope Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade.
May 11, 1150
The earliest textual reference is made to Gypsies working as musicians in Constantinople.
Apr 10, 1155
Frederick I Barbarossa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
Oct 7, 1163
The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa.
May 9, 1214
Battle of Bouvines; In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
Jan 8, 1220
The Mongols first invade the Abbasid Caliphate ; Bukhara and Samarkand are taken.
Apr 11, 1233
The Inquisition is established.
Apr 7, 1237
Mongol invasion of Rus':Sack of Ryazan. The Livonian Brothers of the Sword unite with the Teutonic Knights.
Apr 19, 1290
King Edward I of England orders all Jews (then numbering around 16,000) to leave England.
Mar 30, 1297
Battle of Stirling Bridge: The Scottish armies of Andrew Moray and Willian Wallace defeat the English.
Clovis I becomes the ruler of the Salian Franks at the age of 13 after the death of his father.
Cerdic becomes the first King of Wessex.
Kubrat,ruler of the Bulgars, is baptized in Constantinople
Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses the jews of aiding the Muslims, and sentences all Jews to slavery.
Paolo Lucio Anafesto is elected the first Doge of Venice.
Umayyad troops invade Armenia and secure submission of Smbat VI bagratuni.
Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized.
The Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire.
Charlemagne conquers Bavaria.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the first appearance of Vikings in England.
The Avars invade Europe again, but are defeated by Charlemagne.
Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria, their first major viking attack in England.
First siege of Constantinople by the Rus.
Rurik gains control of Novgorod.
Oleg of Novgorod takes kiev and makes it his capital.
Charles the Fat becomes King of Western Francia, thus for the last time reuniting the Frankish kingdom.
The Vikings besiege Paris.
Alfred the Great captures London and renames it Lundenburgh. Charles the Fat of France purchases peace with Vikings. Rollo of Normandy then lifts his siege of Paris.
The Moors lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon.
King Edmund I of England takes Northumbra from the Viking.
A Byzantine army under Nikephoros Phokas captures and plunders Aleppo.
Mieszko I, the first duke of Poland, is baptized a Christian.
The Pechenegs begin the Siege of Kiev.
Nicephorus II begins a campaign to recapture Cilicia.