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476
The last Roman emperor in the west, Romulus Augustus, was deposed by the Forderati Cheifeten, Odoacer.
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523
Justinian marries Thedora
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Feb 15, 607
The Pantheon in Rome is converted into a chuch.
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Feb 15, 614
The Persian army sacks Jerusalem; sets fire to the church of the Holy Sepulchre and capture the True Cross.
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Feb 15, 671
Battle of Two Rivers: King Ecgfrith of Northumbria defets the Picts.
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Feb 15, 674
The first Arab seige of Constantinople begns.
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Feb 15, 707
The Byantines lose the Baleric islands to the Moors
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Feb 15, 716
The Umayyads conqer Lisbson. Boniface begins missions to the Germans.
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Feb 15, 754
al-Mansur, the second Addasid caliph, starts to rule. Pope Stephen II crowns Pepin the Short King of the Franks.
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Feb 15, 1010
Beowulf is written anonymously
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Feb 15, 1122
The Concourt resolves the Investiture Controversy, thus bringing to an end of the first phase of the power stuggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors.
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Feb 15, 1137
Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Elanor of Aqutine daughter of William X
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Feb 15, 1155
Frederick I Barbosa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
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Feb 15, 1163
The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa
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Feb 15, 1167
William Marshal "the greatest knight that ever lived", is knighted in Engalnd
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Feb 15, 1177
Pope Alexzander III sends a letter to Prester John, beleiving he is real.
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Feb 15, 1183
Saladin conquers Syria and becomes sultan
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Feb 15, 1214
Battle of Bouvines: IN France, Phillip II of France defeats John of Engalnd.
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Feb 15, 1220
The Mongols first invade Abbasid Caliphate; Bukhara and Samsrkand are taken
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Feb 15, 1233
The Inquisition is established
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Feb 15, 1237
Mongol invasion of Rus': Sack of Ryazan. THe Lvionian of the Sword unite with the Tetonic Knights
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Feb 15, 1245
Pope Innocent IV sends Giovanni da Pian del Caprine to the Mongol court, suggesting (amonst other things) that the mongols convert to Christianity
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Feb 15, 1290
King Edward I of England orders all Jews to leave England
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Feb 15, 1297
Battle of Striling Bridge: the scotish armies of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeat the english
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Feb 15, 1303
Edward I of England reconquers Scotland
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Feb 15, 1305
Phillip IV of France accuses the Knights Templar of heresy.
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May 11, 1320
In FRance, 54 members of the knight Templar are burned at the stake for heresy
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Jan 20, 1327
Edward II is deposed by his wife Isabella
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Feb 15, 1337
The Hundred year war begins between France and Engalnd
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Jan 26, 1340
King Edward III of England is declared king of France
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Clovis becomes the ruler of the Salian Franks at the age 13 after the death of his father.
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Cerdic & Cynric land somewhere on the south coast of Great Britan.
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Cedric becomes the first King of Wesex.
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Clovis is baptaized into the Cathlic faith.
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THe lombards convert to Christianity
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Reccared, King of the Visigoths, renounces Arianism and adpots Catholicism.
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The plague reaches Rome, killing Pope Pelguis 2
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The city of Edessa is taken from the Byzantine Empire by the the Sassandins.
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Paolo Lucio Anafesto is elected the first Doge of Venice.
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Umayyad troops invade Armeina and secure submission of Smbat Vl Bagratuni.
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Widukind and many other Saxsons are baptized.
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Charlamane conquers Bavaria.
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Irene is diposed as Empress Byzantium, replaced by Nicephorosus I, and banished to Lebos.
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The Vikings besiege Paris
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High water mark of Alfonso II of Asturia's campaigns against al-Anadalus, the Christians sack Lisbon.
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The Danish king Harald accepts Christianity.
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First siege of Constantinople by the Rus.
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Oleg of Novatakes Kiev and makes it his capital.
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Rurik gains control of Novgorod
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Charles the Fat becomes King of Western Francia, thus for the last time reuniting the FRankish kingdom
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Ingolfer Arnarson arives as the first Viking settler in Tceland, setting in Reykjavik
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The Moors lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon
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The Pechenegs begin th Sige of Kiev
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Nicephorus II begins a camppaign to recapture Cilicia
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Christianity is adopted in Iceland
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Mieszko I, the first duke of Poland, is baptized a Christian