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The last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Angustsus, was desosed by the Foderati Chieftain, odoacet.
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The Panitheon in Rome is converted into a church.
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Accoding to the Annales Cambriae, the Anglo-saxons convert to Christianity and return to their indigenous
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al-Mansur, the second Abbasid caloph, starts to rule. Pope Stephen II crowns Pepin the short King of Franks at Saint-Denis ouside Paris; also dedicates the foundation of the new abbey church.
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King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of innocent III. King John of England is forced to put his seal on the Magna Carta outlining the rights of landowning men ( nobles and knights) and restricting the king's power. King John of England rejects the Mangna Carta, leading to the First BAron's War. Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.
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First Baron's War: Prince Louis of France, the future King Louis VII, invades England in support of the harons, landing in Thanet. JOhn, King of ENgland, dies at Newark Castle, NOttinghamshire; he is succeeded by this nine-years-old son Henry, with William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, as regent. Pope Honorius III officially approves the ORder of Preachers( the Dominican Order ).
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Mongol commander Baiju ( operating under Hulagu Khan's command) leads his forces in a victory over kay'us II of the Sultanate of Rum, thereby capturing Anstolia.
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The Hulagu Khan's Mongol forces overrun Bsghdad, then the leading center of Islamic culture and learning, burning it to the ground and killing as many as 8000,000 citizens.
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Charlemsagne summons the monk and scholar Alcuin of York to head the palace school at Achen in order to inspire the revival of education in Europe.
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Rurik gains control of Novgorod.
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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
