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476
The Last Roman Emperor is Deposed
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523
Justinia marries Theodora
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541
The Bubonic plague suddenly appears in Egypt, spreads and kills at least 230,000 people
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552
Justinian steals silkworms from China to avoid the need to trade for silk
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562
The Byzantine and Persian empires sign a peace treaty
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572
Byzantine Emperor Justin 2 breaks peace with Persia
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Jan 29, 600
Smallpox appears in Europe
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Feb 12, 607
The Pantheon in ROme is converted into a church
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Feb 12, 623
Muhammad dies
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Feb 12, 661
Caliph Ali ibn Talib is assassinated
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Feb 12, 674
The first Arab seige of Constantinople begins
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Feb 12, 707
The Byzantines lose the Balearic Islands to the Moors
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Feb 12, 716
The Ummayads conquer Lisbon
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Feb 12, 745
The Bubonic plague in Constantinople subsequently sweeps through Europe
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Feb 12, 774
Charlemagne conquers the kingdom of the Lombards
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Feb 12, 777
Charlemagne defeats the Saxons
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Feb 12, 1010
Beowulf is written anoymously
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Feb 15, 1031
The Moorish Caliphate of Cordoba collapses
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Feb 15, 1055
The Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad
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Feb 15, 1072
The Normans Conquer Plermo inSicily
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Feb 15, 1085
Alfonso VI of Castile enters the Islamic city
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Feb 15, 1094
Elcid completes his conquest of Valencia, Spain, and begins his rule
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Feb 15, 1120
The White Ship is wrecked in the English Channel
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Feb 15, 1137
Louis VII is crowned King of France and marries Eleanor of Aguitaine
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Feb 15, 1145
Pope Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores
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Feb 15, 1163
The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa
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Feb 15, 1177
Pope Alexzander III sends a letter to Prester John believing he is real
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Feb 15, 1183
Saladin conquers Syria and becomes sultan
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Feb 15, 1210
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor is excommunicated by Pope Innocent III
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Feb 15, 1214
Philip of France defeats John of England in the Battle of Bouvines
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Feb 15, 1233
This inquisition is established
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Feb 15, 1249
King Louis IX of France captures Damietta in Egypt
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Feb 15, 1259
King Louis IX of France and Henry III agree to the treaty of Paris
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Feb 15, 1270
King Louis launches the eighth crusade in an attempt to recapture the crusader states
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Feb 15, 1297
The Scottish armies of Andrew Moray and William Wallace deafeat the English
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Cerdic and Cynric land somewhere on the south coast of Great Britain
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Lombards Convert To Christianity
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Cadwaldr launches the last weish offensive against the saxons
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Paolo Lucio Anafesto is elected the first Doge of Venice
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Charlemagne conquers Bavaria
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Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized
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The Danish King Harald Klal accepts Christianity
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The Norse town of Dyfinn or Dublin is founded in Ireland
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First siege of Constantinople by the Rus
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Rurik gains control of Novgorod
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The ViKings besiege Paris
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Charles the Fat becomes King of Western Francia
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Oleg leads the KIevan Rus' in a campaign against Constantinople
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Olg of Novgorod takes Kiev and makes it his capital
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The Moors lose Madrid to the KIngdom of Leon
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King Edmund 1 takes Northumbria form Vikings
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Olga of Kiev converts to Eastern Orthodox
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Mieszko 1 is baptized a Christian
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The Pechengs begin the siege of kiev