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523
Justinian marries Teodora.
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527
Justinian 1 becomes the Byzantine Emperor.
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562
The Byzantine and Persian empires sign a peace treaty.
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566
The Lombards ally with the Avars then invade and crush the Kingsom of the Gepids.
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572
Byzantine Emperor Justin II breaks peace with Persia and invades Nisibis.
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Apr 27, 600
Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
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Nov 15, 627
Emperor Heraclius defeats the Persians at the Battle of Nineveh.
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Nov 17, 671
Battle of Two Rivers: King Ecgfrith of Northumbria defeats the Picts.
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Jan 29, 702
Large-scale Armenian rebellion against Muslim rule breaks out with Byzantine support.
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Jan 29, 707
The Byzantines lose the Balearic Islands to the Moors.
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Feb 5, 774
Charlemagne conquers the kingdom of the Lombards and thakes title King of the Lombards
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Feb 5, 777
Charlemagne defeats the Saxons; their leader Widukind flees to Denmark.
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Feb 12, 1009
Church os the Holy Sepulchre is destroyed by Calph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
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Feb 12, 1010
Beowulf is written anonymously
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Feb 12, 1031
The Moorish Caliphate of Cordoba collapses.
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Feb 12, 1037
George Maniaces begins a campaign against the Arabs in Sicily.
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Jul 22, 1064
The KIngdom of Juruesalem is found.
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Feb 12, 1076
Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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Feb 12, 1084
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned Emperor by Antipope Clement III
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Feb 12, 1097
The First Crusade proceeds towards Palestine.
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Feb 12, 1122
The Concordat resolves the Investiture Controversy
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Feb 12, 1137
Louis VII is crowned King of France .
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Feb 12, 1145
Pope Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade.
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Feb 12, 1148
The Second Crusade reaches Jerusalem.
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Feb 12, 1150
The earliest textual reference is made to Gypsies
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Feb 12, 1155
Frederick I Barbarossa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
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Feb 12, 1220
The Mongols invade the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Feb 12, 1230
The Teutonic Knights are invited into Prussia
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Feb 12, 1233
The Inquisition is established.
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Feb 12, 1248
Black powder is established.
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Feb 12, 1260
The Mongols are defeated by the Mamluks
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Feb 12, 1297
William Wallace defeats the English
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Clovis is baptized into the Catholic faith. Within a few years the Franks have all converted to Catholicism
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The Benedictine Order is established at Monte Cassino.
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Fire devastates Constantinople, May- Earthquake strikes Constantinople.
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King of Visigoths, renounces Arianism and adopts Catholicism.
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Cadwaladr launches the last Welsh offensive against the Saxons in Britain.
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Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses the Jews of aiding the Muslims, and sentences all Jews to slavery.
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Umayyad troops invade Armenia
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Nazaktar Khan, alliances with the Tibetan Kingdom and captures Bactria from the Umayyads.
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Charlemagne's army suffers a terrible defeat at the hand of the Basques.
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the first appearance of vikings in England.
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Christians sack Lisbon.
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Louis the Pious is crowned Charlemagne as King of the Franks and Emperor.
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Paris is sacked by Viking raiders.
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First siege of Constantinople by the Rus
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Louis II beats the Saracen invaders in Italy.
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Alfred the Great succeds as King of Wessiex after Ethelred's death.
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Oleg of Novgorod takes Kiev and makes it his capital.
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The seven tribes of the Magyars settle in the Carpatian Basin
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The Moors lose Madrid to the Kingsom of Leon.
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King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria form the Vikings.
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Olga of Kiev converts to the Eastern Orthodox Church from paganism beliefs.
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Christianity is adopted in Iceland