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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.
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Justinian I becomes the Byzantine Emperor
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The Bubonic plague appears suddenly in Egypt and quickly spreads to Constantinople where it kills at least 230,000 people
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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
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Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time. Augustine of Canterbury converts King Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity.
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The Pantheon in Rome is converted into a church .
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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.
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Frithuwold of Surrey is baptised and so his son; Surrey becomes Christian. Arabs raid Crete
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Nechtan mac Der-llei, kind of the Picts invites the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity amongst the Picts.
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Saint Boniface fells Thor's Oak near Fritzlar, marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the northern Germanic tribes.
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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.
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Charlemagne conquers the kingdom of the Lombards, and takes title King of the Lombards.
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The Moorish Caliphate of Córdoba collapses. Byzantine general George Maniaces captures Edessa.
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George Maniaces begins a campaign against the Arabs in Sicily
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The first contact occurs between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks.
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Last Viking raid on the Kingdom of England; unsuccessful raiders flee to Flanders.
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The Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad.
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Knights Templar Founded by Hugh de Payns
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Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Eleanor of Auitaine, daughter of William X
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Pope Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade
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Frederick I Barbarossa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa.
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Saladin conguers syria and become sultan
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Pope Celestine III calls for a crusade against pagans in Northern Europe
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Damietta, Egypt falls to the crusaders after a siege. Saint Frances of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, During the Fifth Crusade
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The Mongols first invade the Abbasid Caliphate; Bukhara and Samarkand are taken
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The inquisition is established.
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King Louis IX of FRance captures Damietta in Egypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade
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King Edward I of England orders all jews (then numbering around 16000) to leave England
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Clovis 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 the catholic faith. Within a few years all of the Franks have converted to catholicism
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Reccared, King of Visigoths, renounces Arianism and adopts Catholicism.
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The Lombards convert to Christianity.
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Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses the Jews of aiding the Muslims, and snetences all Jews to slavery.
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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
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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 )
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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.
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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.
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Rurik gains control of Novgorod
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The Moors lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon.
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Kind Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the vikings.
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The Pechenegs begin the Siege of Kiev
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Explorer Bjarni Herjoólfsson becomes the firsr inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America
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First siege of Constantinople by the Rus
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Oleg of the Novgorod takes Kiev and makes it his capital
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The Vikings besiege Paris
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With the establishment of the Althing , now one of the world's oldest parliaments, the Icelandic Commonwealth is founded.
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Pope Gregory l sends Augustine to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity.
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Charlemagne dies in Aachen; Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne as king of the Franks and Emperor. The Bulgarians lay siege before Constantinople.
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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.
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Ingólfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland, settling in Reykjavik
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Constantine of Kernyw converts to Christianity. Dumnonia is the Southwestern most peninsula of Britain
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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.