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this timeline is for the Academic Decathlon 2012
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Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
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King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out
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The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
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Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at about 45
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Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische
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A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
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Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies
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Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland
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St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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Justinian became emperor, tried to revive the Roman Empire, result was 30 years of wars to oust the Ostrogoths and other Germans from Italy and North Africa,
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Wittigis - · Gothic king from 537, besiege the Byzantine commander in Rome. A second Byzantine cut off Wittigis' communications with his capital in Ravenna. A year later, Belisarius besieged him. Sought truce in 539-40. Just prior to defeat, Wittigis appealed to the Persian Sassanian shah for help in the form of opening a second front along Byzantium's eastern borders.
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Totila - · Wittigis' nephew, made the Italian war very hard for Romans past 540.
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The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
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Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle
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2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
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Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy
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John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
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Sigibert - · Merovingian family member, offspring of Clothar's generation, received Austrasia in 562.
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The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
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Birth of Islam: Creator was the prophet Muhammad (b. ca. 570 in Mecca); a merchant, he converted to a monotheism in 610 and preached a new religion that drew on and completed Judaism and Christianity. Muhammad's message angered local officials, many of who were polytheistic; he and his followers fled to Medina in 622 (hijra and the first year of the Muslim calendar); converts found in Medina; returned to Mecca 8 yrs later captured the city. He destroyed idols in the Ka'ba, making it into a Mo
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John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies
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Pope Gregory the Great decreea saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
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Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor
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Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
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Muhamadds death
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The Spread of Islam: 632-661: conquest of Persia and parts of India, the Middle East, and North Africa as far as Tripoli. 662-750, Moslems conquered Armenia, the rest of North Africa, Spain and the southern parts of France. Muslim expansion into Europe at Battle of Tours (732), but failed to take Constantinople. The conquests meant that the Moslems controlled the Mediterranean Sea and its trade routes
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Arabs conquered a major Empire, which extended from the Indus River to the north African coast of the Mediterranean to Spain and southern France (632 and 732): they brought their language, their culture, and their religion to these territories, 50% of the once great Roman Empire.
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Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.
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John IV - · Western Pope who, in 641, condemned Monotheletism, the idea that Christ was of two natures, and did not have a single energy, but possessed a single will.
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Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam
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The Western Slavs:( from the 7th century) migrated west, and founded Kingdoms of Poland & Bohemia and they converted to Catholicism
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Tariq - · Muslim general who led 711 conquest of Spain.
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Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
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Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors
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An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
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Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor
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Anastasius I Dikoros Byzantine emperor, dies
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Start of Islamic calendar
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Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected
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Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
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3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
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Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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Leo IV, the Khazar, Byzantine emperor
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Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67
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Constantius II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at 37
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The Church undertakes a major effort to convert barbarians like Clovis (496) with the missionary work of St Boniface (?680-754) and others, asserts that the spiritual authority of the church was superior to political authority (Pope Gelasius I [r. 590-604] and the Theory of the Two Swords) and preserve learning and civilization (monastic libraries, the Book of Kells and Gregorian chant).
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Justin - · Eastern Emperor 518-527. Ends schism with Rome, grooms Justinian for rule.
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Alboin - · Lombard king crowned in Milan in 569. By 573-4, he was able to occupy Pavia, which became the Lombard capital.
