Ashley Wong timeline1

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  • 532

    Justinian I orders the construction of the Hagia Sophia.

  • 540

    The Persians are convinced by the Ostrogoths to break their "Eternal" peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire. This creates a four front war for the Byzantines.

  • 541

    The Bubonic plague appears in Egypt and immediately spreads to Constantinople. The plague kills at least 230,000 people.

  • 552

    Two Nestorian Monks smuggle silkworm eggs for Justinian so he can set up his own Silk production.

  • 572

    Justin II invades Nisibis, breaking peace with Persia.

  • Jan 29, 600

    Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.

  • Jan 29, 614

    Jersualem is sacked by the Persian Empire. The church of the Holy Sepulchre is set on fire and the True Cross is captured.

  • Jan 29, 661

    Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib is assassinated. Rashidun Caliphate ends, but the Umayyad caliphate is found.

  • Jan 29, 677

    The last of the Onogur tribes flee to Hrpad in Pannonia and the area is known as Hungary, according to the Chronicon Pictum.

  • Jan 29, 723

    Saint Boniface chops down Thor's Oak.

  • Jan 29, 732

    Battle of Tours: Charles Martel, leader of the Franks, and his army crushes the Moors. The Battle of Tours stops the advance of Islam and balances the power between Western Europe, Islam, and the Byzantine Empire.

  • Jan 29, 751

    Pepin the Short is elected as king of the Franks. It marks the end of the Merovingian and beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.

  • Jan 29, 754

    al-Mansur starts to rule. Pepin the Short is crowned King of the Franks.

  • Feb 12, 1010

    The famous Beowulf is written by an unknown author.

  • Feb 12, 1056

    300 Christians are expelled from Jerusalem by the Muslims. European Christians are not allowed to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

  • Feb 12, 1071

    Battle of Manzikert: Turkish army defeats the Byzantine Empire. That war resulted in the Turkish conquest of Anatolia.

  • Feb 14, 1094

    The conquest of Valencia, Spain is finished for Elcid. He begins his rule of Valencia. The Almoravid campaign fails to regain Valencia.

  • Feb 14, 1096

    The First Crusade, the People's Crusade, and the German Crusade starts. A group of Crusaders near iznik is defeated by Kilij Arsland I of the Turks.

  • Feb 14, 1119

    Hugh de Payns founds Knights Templar.

  • Feb 14, 1120

    The son of King Henry I of England dies when the White Ship is wrecked in the English Channel.

  • Feb 14, 1145

    Pope Eugene III calls for the Second Crusade.

  • Feb 14, 1167

    William Marshal is knighted in England. He is known as "the greatest knight that ever lived".

  • Feb 14, 1177

    A letter is sent to Prester John by Pope Alexander III.

  • Feb 14, 1194

    Richard I of England is held for ransom in the Holy Roman Empire.

  • Feb 14, 1199

    A French boy shoots a crossbow at King Richard I of England in the shoulder. Richard I dies from the shot wound and the boy is tortured and hung.

  • Feb 14, 1212

    Shepherd boys lead the Children's Crusade.

  • Feb 14, 1215

    King John of England is pushed into signing the Magna Carta.

  • Feb 14, 1245

    Giovanni da Pian del Carpine is sent by Pope Innocent IV to try to convert the Mongols to Christianity.

  • Feb 14, 1248

    The Seventh Crusade is launched by King Louis IX of France. The formula for black powder is published in Europe.

  • Feb 14, 1265

    The first English Parliament holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster.

  • Feb 14, 1271

    Edward I of England and Charlies of Anjou attempted to begin the Ninth Crusade but fail. They truce.

  • Feb 14, 1290

    All Jews are ordered to leave England by King Edward I.

  • Theodoric the Great leads the Ostrogoths to invade Italy and defeat Odoacter with help from the Byzantine Empire. They were a success.

  • Fire devastates Constantinople in April. A month lather, an earthquake hits the city again.

  • The Lombards, Avars, Slavs, and Visigoths succeed gaining the Byzantine Empire's territory.

  • Pope Pelagius II dies from the plague that reached Rome.

  • Arabs under Hassan ibn al-Nu'man capture Carthage and Carthage is destroyed.

  • The first appearance of Vikings in ENgland is recorded in the Anglo-Sazon Chronicle.

  • Irene of Athens blinds her son and is declared empress the day after.

  • Irene is kicked out to Lesbos and she is replaced by Nicephorus I.

  • Charlemagne dies in Aachen; He is succeeded by Louis the Pious as king of the Franks and Emperor.

  • Louis the Pious' son, Lothar takes over as Emperor after Louis' death.

  • Vikings sacked Paris, Hamburg, and Melun.

  • The University of Al Karaouine is founded in Fes, Morocco (recognized as the oldest university in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records).

  • Louis II beats the Saracen invaders in Italy. Ivar the Boneless beats and captures king Aella of Northrumbria in England, avenging his father Ragnar Lodbrok.

  • Ingolfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland, settling in Reykjavik.

  • Charles the Fat becomes King of Western Francia, thus for the last time reuniting the Frankish kingdom.

  • The seven tribes of the Magyars settle in the Carpathian Basin under the leadership of Arpad. People think of them as returning Huns, thus the Magyars come to be known as Hungarians.

  • The Moors lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon.

  • King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the Vikings.

  • The Pechengs begin the Siege of Kiev.

  • The Viking explorer Eric the Red-haired leaves Norway. He finds land and calls it Greenland. Many land-starved Vikings head to this "Greenland."

  • A devastating decade-long famine begins in France. Byzantine Emperor John I successfully defends the Eastern Roman Empire from a massive barbarian invasion. Eric the Victorious becomes the first king of Sweden.

  • At age 13, Clovis I becomes the ruler of the Salian Franks after the death of his father.