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The last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Augustus, was deposed by the Foederati Chieftain,Odoacer
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The Byzantine army in Italy crushes the Gothic army and her Frankish allies, ending the Ostrohgothic Kingdom
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The Pantheon in Rome is converted into a church.
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Clotaire II reunites the Frankish kingdoms under one King. Muhammad begins preaching Islam in Mecca.
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Battle of Two Rivers : King Ecgfrith of Northumbria defeats the Picts
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The first Arab siege of Constantinople begins
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Frithuwold of Surrey is baptised and so is his son; Surrey becomes Christian. Arabs raid Crete.
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Large-scale Armenian rebellion Muslim rule breaks out with Byzantine support.
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Charlemagne defeats the Saxons;their leader Widukind flees to Denmark.
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Beowulf is written anonymously
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George Maniaces begins a campaign against the Arabs in Sicily.
The first contact occurs between the Byzantine Empire and the Scijuks.
Last Viking raid on the Kingdom of England; unsuccessful raiders flee to Flanders.
The Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad.
Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade
Baldwin l of Jerusalem undertakes an invasion of Egypt -
Pope Eugene lll issues bull Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade.
Siege of Damascus by the Second Crusade
The earliest textual reference is made to Gypsies working as musicians in Constantinople.
Frederick l Barbarossa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
The Almohads finsih driving the Normans out of North Africa.
Pope Alexander lll sends a leter to Prester John, believing he is real -
The Mongols first invade the Abbasid Caliphate; bUkhara and Samarkand are taken.The Inquistion is established.King Louis lX of France captures Damiette in Egypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade.
Mongol llkhan Arghun Khan dispatches Rabban Bar Sauma to the leaders of Europe to negotiate an alliance against Muslim states, specifically the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt.
King Edward l of England orders al Jews ( then numbering around 16,000 ) to leave England. -
Battle of Stirling Bridge: The Scottish armies of Andrew Moray and William Wallane defeat the English
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Clovis I becomes the ruler of the Salian Franks at the age of 13 after the death of his father.
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Clovis is baptized into Catholic faith. Within a few years all of the Franks have converted to Catholicism.
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Umayyad troops invade Armenia and secure submission of Smbat VI Bagratuni.
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Nazaktar Khan, a Turk Shahi prince in alliance with the Tibetan Kingdom, captures Bactria from the Umayyads.
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Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the first appearance of the Vikings in England.
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The Avars invade Europe again, but are defeated by Charlemagne
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Vikings sack the monastary of Lindisfarne, Northumbria, their first major viking attack in England
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First seige of Constantinople by the Rus
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Rurik gains control of Novgorod
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Ingolfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland, setting in Reykjavik
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Oleg of Novgorod takes Kiev and makes it his capital.
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Charles the Fat becomes King of Western Francia, thus for the last ime reuniting the Frankish Kingdom
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The Vikings besiege Paris
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The Moors lose Mardrid to the Kingdom of Leon
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King Edmund l of England takes Northumbria from the Vikings
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A Byzantine army under Nikephoros Phokas captures and plunders Aleppo
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Nicephorus ll begins a campaign to recapture Cicilia
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Mieszko l, the first duke of Poland, is baptized a Christian
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Cerdic becomes first King of Wegsex
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The Benedictine Order is estalished at Monte Cassino.
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Reccared, King of the Visigoths, renounces Arianism and adopts Catholisim.
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The Lombards convert to Christianity.
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The plague reaches Rome, killing Pope Pelagius II
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The city of Edessa is taken from the Byzantine Empire by the Sassanids ( Persians )
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The Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire