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