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476
The last Roman emperor, Romulus was deposed by Odoacer.
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Jan 29, 661
Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib is assassinated; with his assassination the Rashidun Caliphate ends and Muawiyah I founds the Umayyad caliphate.
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Jan 29, 671
Battle of Two Rivers: King Ecgfrith of Northumbria defeats the Picts.
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Jan 29, 674
The first Arab Siege of Constantinople begins.
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Jan 29, 675
Frithuwold of Surrey is baptised and so is his son; Surrey becomes Christian. Arabs raid Crete.
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Jan 29, 707
The Byzantines lose the Balearic Islands to the Moors.
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Feb 14, 754
al-Mansur, the second Abbasid caliph, starts to rule.
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Feb 14, 774
Charlemagne conquers the kingdon of the Lombards, and takes title King of the Lombards.
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Feb 14, 777
Charlemagne defeats the Saxons; their leader Widukind flees to Denmark.
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Jan 29, 1031
Moorish Caliphate
The Moorish Caliphate of Cordoba collaspes. Byzantine general George Maniaces captures Edessa. -
Jan 29, 1033
Panic
Panic spreads throughout Europe that the end of the universe mmay be near, on the supposed 1,000th anniversary of the crucifixion of Christ, due to some unusually harsh spring weather. -
Jan 29, 1037
Campaign
George Maniaces begins a campaign againt the Arabs in Sicily. -
Jan 29, 1046
Seljuks
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Jan 29, 1047
Battle of Val-es-Dunes: William the Conqueror, with assistance from King Henry I of France, secures control Normandy by defeating the rebel Norman barons at Caen.
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Feb 19, 1047
Battle of Val-ès-Dunes
William the Conqueror, with assistance from King Henry I of France, secures control of Normandy by defeating the rebel Norman barons at Caen. -
Jan 29, 1048
Last Viking raid on the Kingdom of England ; unsuccessful raiders flee to Flanders.
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Feb 19, 1048
Last Viking raid on the Kingdom of England
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Feb 19, 1054
Excommunication
Cardinal Humbertus, a representative of Pope Leo IX, and Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, decree each other excommunication. Most historians look to this act as the final step in the initiation of the Great Schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Churches. -
Feb 19, 1055
Baghdad
The Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad. -
Feb 19, 1056
Muslims Expel Christians
The Muslims expel 300 Christians from Jerusalem, and European Christians are forbidden to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. -
Cerdic becomes the first king of Wessex.
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Clovis I becomes the ruler after his father died.
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The Romano-British began to fight the invasions from the Germanic Saxons.This fight or war lasted for 5 years.
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The Ostrogoths, led by Theodoric the Great invaded Italy with the help of the Byzantine Empire.
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Cerdic and Cynric lands somewhere on the south coast of Great Britain.
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The Moors lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon.
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King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the Viking.
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Olga of Kiev converts to the Eastern Orthodox CHurch from paganism beliefs.
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Edgar the Peaceable is corwned King of England. DUnstan becomes Archbishop.
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A Byzantine army under Nikephoros Phokas captures and plunders Aleppo.
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Nicephorus II begins a campaign to recapture Cilicia.
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According to the Annales Cambrae, the Anglo- Saxons convert to Christianity proclaimed Emperor by the army is Syracuse in the absence of the sons of Constans II. Constantine IV,sons of Constans II, becomes Byzantine Emperor, succeeding Constans II. He org
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Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized.
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The Avars invade Europe again, but are defeated by Charlemagne.
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Charlemagne conquers Bavaria.
