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Alaric was a Germanic man who through out his life was involved in the military. He is most famous for sacking Rome in 410
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The old Roman Empire was reunited by Justinian
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The Byzantine rule collapses after an attack by the Lombards
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Pepin the Short, a Frankish King conquers the Lombards for the popes
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The Papal States were established in central Italy
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The Lombards defeated by Charlemagne
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Pope Gregory VII decrees that only the church may make ecclesiastical appointments
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Venice takes the useful islands of Corfu and Crete as part of the spoils of the fourth crusade
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An incident in a church service sparks the uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers, in which 2000 French are killed overnight in Sicily
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The French cardinals, objecting to the new Italian pope, elect their own man as Clement VII and start the Great Schism of the papacy
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Charles I of Spain became Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire
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In 485, Attila the Hun sacked Italy but Pope Leo I dissuaded Attila from sacking Rome
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The Lombards invaded Italy and started to take over.
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Charlemagne crowned Roman emperor
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Otto the Great was crowned emperor establishing the Holy Roman Empire
