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507
AD
Clovis dictaes Salic. He moves the FRanish capital to Paris. He dies and splits his kingdom into 4 parts, leaving each to his son. -
523
AD
Justinian maries Theodoa. -
527
AD
Justinian the first becomes the Byzantine Emperor. -
532
AD
Justinian the first orders the construction of the Hagia Sophia -
Jan 29, 600
AD
Smallpox arrives Europe for the first time. Agustineof Canterbury converts King ethelbert of Kent to Christianity.. -
Feb 5, 607
AD
The Pantheon in Rome is converted into a church. -
Mar 8, 613
AD
Clotaire the 2nd reunites the Frankish kingdoms under one king. Muhammad begins preaching Islam in Mecca. -
Feb 12, 671
AD
Battle of Two Rivers: King Ecgfrit of Northumbia defeats the Picks. -
Jul 21, 674
AD
The first Arab seigevof Constantinople begins. -
Mar 15, 675
AD
Frithuwould of Surrey is baptised and so is his son; Surry becomes Christian. Arabs invade Crete. -
Feb 12, 702
AD
Large-scale Armenian rebellion against Muslim rule breaks out with Byzantine support. -
Jul 20, 774
AD
Charlemagne conquers the kingdom of the Lombards, and takes the title Lombards. -
Jun 11, 777
AD
Charkenagne defeats the Saxibs;their leader Widukind flees to Denmark. -
Aug 8, 1031
AD
The Moorish Calipahte of Caliphate collapes. Byzantine general George Maniaces captures Edessa. -
Nov 20, 1037
AD
George Maniances begins a campaign agaisnt the Arabs on Sicily. -
Aug 17, 1046
AD
The first contact occurs betwwen a campagin the Byzantine Empire and the Selijuks. -
Jan 15, 1055
AD
The Seljuks Turks capture Baghdad. -
Nov 22, 1119
AD
Kights of Templar Founded by Hugh de PAyns. -
Apr 1, 1120
AD
The White Ship is wrecked in the English Channel, reauliting in the death of the son of King Henry the first of England. -
Jul 16, 1144
AD
The Country of Edessa falls to Zengi of Mosul. Manual the first Comnenus brings Raymond, price of antioch, under Byazantine influeince. -
Sep 16, 1145
AD
Pope Eugene the third issuse the bull Quantum praedececessores. -
Feb 15, 1150
AD
The earliest text ual referance is made to Gypsies working as musucians in Constantinople. -
May 21, 1155
AD
Fedrick the first Barbarossa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. -
Jan 30, 1163
AD
The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa. -
Mar 24, 1177
AD
Pope Alexander the third sends a letter to Prester John, believing he is real. -
Mar 7, 1214
AD
Battle of Bouvines: In France, Phillip the second defeats John of England. -
Mar 29, 1220
AD
The Mongols first invade the Abbasid Caliphate; Bukhara and Samarkand and taken. -
Apr 23, 1223
AD
The Inquisition is established. -
May 14, 1249
AD
King Louis the nineth of France captures Damietta in Eqypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade. -
Sep 4, 1290
AD
King Edward the first of England orders all Jews (numbering around 16,000) to leave England. -
Oct 6, 1297
AD
Battle of Stirling Bridge: The Scottish armies of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeats the English. -
AD
Clovis becomes ruler of the Salian Franks at age 13 of the death of his father. -
AD
Fire devastates Constantinople, May- Earthquake strikes Constantinople, THe Avars advanc from the Danube to the walls of Constaninople. -
AD
The Lombards, Avars, Slavs, and Visigoths all win military victories over the BYzantine Empire and gain territory at theri expense. -
AD
Paolo Lucio Anafesto is elected the first Doge of Venice. -
AD
Umayyad troops invade Armenia and secure submisson of Smbat VI Bagratuni. -
AD
Charlemegne conquers Bavaria. -
AD
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the first appearance vikings in England. -
AD
The Avars invade Europe again, but are defeated by Charlemagne. -
AD
Rurik gains control of Novgorod. -
AD
Oleg of Novgorod takes kiev and makes it his captial. -
AD
Charles becomes King of Western Francia, thus for the last time reuniting the Frankish Kingdom. -
AD
Vikings besiege Paris. -
AD
King Edmund the first of Englad takes Northumbia from the vivkings. -
AD
Olga of Kiev converts to the EAstern Orthodox Church from Daganism beliefs. -
AD
A Byzantine army under Nikephors Phokas captures and plunders Aleppo. -
AD
Mieszko the first duke of Poland, is baptized a Christian. -
AD
Pecheneges begins the Siege of Kiev. -
AD
The city of Edessa is taken from the Byzantne Empire by the Sassnids (Persians). -
AD
Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized. -
AD
First seige of Constaninople by the Rus. -
AD
Ingoflur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland and makes it his capital. -
AD
The Moorss loose Madrid to the Kingdom of leon. -
AD
Clovis is bathtized into the catholic aih. Withoin a few years all of the Franks have converted to Catholicism.