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Period: 507 to 511
Clovis dies
Clovis dictates the salic law. He moves the Frankish capital to Paris. He dies and splits his kingdom into four parts, leaving each to a son. -
527
justinian I
Justinian I becomes the Byzantine Emperor -
541
Bubonic plague
The Bubonic plague appears suddenly in Egypt and quickly spreads to Constantinople where it kills at least 230,000 people -
552
Silk worms
Justinian receices silk worms smuggled from China by two Nestorian Monks. He intends to set up his own Silk production to bypass the need to trade with the far East -
Feb 5, 600
Smallpox
Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time. Augustine of Canterbury converts King Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity. -
Feb 5, 607
Pantheon
The Pantheon in Rome is converted into a church . -
Feb 5, 665
Anglo- Saxons
According to the Annales Cambriae, the Anglo- Saxons convert to Christianity after the Second Battle of Badon. Sighere of Essex encourages his subjects to reject Christianity and reture to their indigenous religion. -
Feb 5, 675
Surrey
Frithuwold of Surrey is baptised and so his son; Surrey becomes Christian. Arabs raid Crete -
Feb 12, 715
Northumbbrian clergy
Nechtan mac Der-llei, kind of the Picts invites the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity amongst the Picts. -
Feb 12, 723
Thor's Oak
Saint Boniface fells Thor's Oak near Fritzlar, marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the northern Germanic tribes. -
Feb 12, 772
Charlemane fights the Saxons
Frankish king Charlemagne starts fighting the Saxons and the Frisians. Caliph Al-Mansur orders Christians and Jews in Jerusalem to be stamped on their hands with a distinctive symbol. -
Feb 12, 774
King of the Lombards
Charlemagne conquers the kingdom of the Lombards, and takes title King of the Lombards. -
Feb 13, 1031
Moorish
The Moorish Caliphate of Córdoba collapses. Byzantine general George Maniaces captures Edessa. -
Feb 14, 1037
George Maniaces
George Maniaces begins a campaign against the Arabs in Sicily -
Feb 14, 1046
first contact.
The first contact occurs between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks. -
Feb 14, 1048
Last viking raid
Last Viking raid on the Kingdom of England; unsuccessful raiders flee to Flanders. -
Feb 14, 1055
Baghdad
The Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad. -
Feb 14, 1119
Knights Templar
Knights Templar Founded by Hugh de Payns -
Feb 15, 1137
Louis VII
Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Eleanor of Auitaine, daughter of William X -
Feb 15, 1145
Pope Eugene III
Pope Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade -
Feb 15, 1155
Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I Barbarossa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor -
Feb 15, 1163
The Almohads
The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa. -
Feb 15, 1183
Sultan
Saladin conguers syria and become sultan -
Feb 15, 1193
Pope Celestine III
Pope Celestine III calls for a crusade against pagans in Northern Europe -
Feb 15, 1219
Damietta
Damietta, Egypt falls to the crusaders after a siege. Saint Frances of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, During the Fifth Crusade -
Feb 15, 1220
invade the Abbasid Caliphate
The Mongols first invade the Abbasid Caliphate; Bukhara and Samarkand are taken -
Feb 15, 1233
inquisition
The inquisition is established. -
Feb 15, 1249
King Louis IX
King Louis IX of FRance captures Damietta in Egypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade -
Feb 15, 1290
King Edward I
King Edward I of England orders all jews (then numbering around 16000) to leave England -
Clovis becomes ruler
Clovis becomes the ruler of the Salian Franks at the age of 13 after the death of his father -
catholicism
Clovis is baptized into the catholic faith. Within a few years all of the Franks have converted to catholicism -
King of Visigoths
Reccared, King of Visigoths, renounces Arianism and adopts Catholicism. -
Lombards
The Lombards convert to Christianity. -
Jews aid Muslims
Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses the Jews of aiding the Muslims, and snetences all Jews to slavery. -
Battle of Dorestad
Battle of Dorestad:The Frisians of kings Radbod are defeated by the Frankish mayor of the palace, Pippin of Herstal. The Rhine delta becomes Frankish -
Pepin dies
Pepin the Short (714-768), king of the Franks since 751, dies; he is succeeded by his sons Carloman (eastern Franks) and Charels, aka Charlemagne (western Franks ) -
Charlemagne summons a monk
Charlemagne summons the monk and scholar Alcuin of York to head the palace school at Aachen in order to inspire the revival of education in Europe. The /massacre of Verden is ordered by Charlemagne against the Saxons. Harun al- Rashid invades Byzantine Anatolia and advances to within sight of Constantinople. Trapped o his return march, he is rescued by the defection of the Byzantine general Tatzates, which allows him to impose a harsh truce on the Empress irene of Athens. -
Irene's son is blinded
Irene of Athens orders her son, Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI, captured and deposed. Irene of Athen's orders are carried out; her son is blinded, and she is declared empress the next day. -
Rurik
Rurik gains control of Novgorod -
The Moors
The Moors lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon. -
King Edmund I
Kind Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the vikings. -
Pechenegs
The Pechenegs begin the Siege of Kiev -
Old World
Explorer Bjarni Herjoólfsson becomes the firsr inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America -
First siege
First siege of Constantinople by the Rus -
kiev is the capital
Oleg of the Novgorod takes Kiev and makes it his capital -
Paris
The Vikings besiege Paris -
Icelandic Commonwealth
With the establishment of the Althing , now one of the world's oldest parliaments, the Icelandic Commonwealth is founded. -
Pope Gregory
Pope Gregory l sends Augustine to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. -
Charlemagne dies in Aachen
Charlemagne dies in Aachen; Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne as king of the Franks and Emperor. The Bulgarians lay siege before Constantinople. -
decade - long famine
A devastating decade-long famine begins in France. Byzantine Emperor John I successfully defends the Eastern Roman Empire from a massive varvarian invasion. Eric the Victorious becomes the first king of Sweden. -
Ingólfur Arnarson
Ingólfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland, settling in Reykjavik -
Kernyw converts
Constantine of Kernyw converts to Christianity. Dumnonia is the Southwestern most peninsula of Britain -
Edgar the Peaceable
Edgar the Peaceable is crowned King of England. Dunstan becomes Archbishop of Canterbury and Edgar's chief adviser. He reforms monasteries and enforces the rule of Saint Benedict: Poverty, Chastity , and Obedience for monks. He attempts to impose celibacy on the secular clergy without noticeable success. Dunstan actively encourages the Danes to integrate with the English. Sviatoslav I of Kiev conguers the Khazars' imperial power.