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Period: 476 to
European History: Spread of Christianity, Plague, and Dark Ages.
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Period: 476 to Jan 29, 1300
European History 476 A.D. to 1300 A.D.
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523
Justinian marries Theodora
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527
Justinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor
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541
Bubonic plague appears in Egypt and travels to Constantinople killing 230,000 people,
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550
Charic, King of the Suevi converts to Catholic.
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Jan 29, 613
Muhhamad begins preaching Islam in Mecca.
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Jan 29, 632
Muhammad dies.
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Jan 29, 641
Persian EMpire sacks Jerusalem and burns the Holy sepulchre and also captures the True Cross.
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Jan 29, 671
Battle of Two Rivers: KIng Ecgfrith of Northumbria defeasts the Picts.
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Jan 29, 674
tHe first Arab siege of Constantinople begins.
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Jan 29, 707
The Byzantine lose the Baleric Islands to the Moors.
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Jan 29, 745
Bubonic plague in Constantinople goes through the intire Empire.
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Jan 29, 751
Pepin the SHort is elected king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility ending the Merovingian and also beginning the Carolinigian dynasty.
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Jan 29, 777
Charlemagne defeats the Saxons and their leader Widukind flees to Denmark.
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Jan 29, 1010
Beowulf is written and the writers is not known.
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Feb 5, 1031
The moorish Caliphate or Cordoba collapses.
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Feb 5, 1037
George Maniaces begins a capaign againxt the Arabs in Sicily.
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Feb 5, 1055
Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad
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Jun 3, 1097
THe NOrmans crusaders join the rest of the amry during the siege on NIcaea.
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Feb 5, 1099
Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade.
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Feb 5, 1119
Knights TEmplar Founded by Hugh de Payns.
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Jun 5, 1148
2nd Crusafe reaCOuncil of Acre attack Damascus.ches Jerusalem and the
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Jul 5, 1148
Siege of Damascus ends in failure.
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Feb 5, 1150
Earliest textual reference is made into Gypsies working as musicians and theives.
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Feb 5, 1155
Frederick I BArbarossa is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
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Feb 5, 1183
Saladin COnquers Syria and becomes sultan.
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Feb 5, 1203
Fleet of 4th crusade eneters and captures Constantinople.
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Feb 5, 1214
Battle of Bouvines in France Philips II defeates John of England.
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Feb 5, 1233
The Inquisition is established.
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Feb 5, 1248
King Louis IX of France launches the 7th Crusade keading 20,000 men toward Egypt.
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Feb 5, 1260
Mongols lose to the Mamluks at the BAttle of Ain Jalut in PAlestine.
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Feb 5, 1290
King Edward I of ENgland issues all JEws to leave.
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Feb 5, 1297
BAttle of Stirling Bridge: Scottish armies of Andrew Moray and William WAllace defeat the ENglish.
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Clovis becomes emperor after his father had died.
Clovis becomes emperor after his father had died. -
Fire destroys Constantinople, in the same year a earthquake hits Constantinople
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Pope Greory 1 send Augustine to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in England.
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Cadwaldar launches the last WElsh offensive against the Saxons in Britian.
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The Hispano-Visigothsic king Egica accuses the HEws for aiding the Muslims.
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Paolo Lucio Anadesto is elected the first Doge of Venice.
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Windukin and many other Saxons are baptized.
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The Second Council of Nicaea ends the first period in the Byzantine Empire.
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Charlemagne congquers Bavaria.
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The Egyptian Sacracens attack the city of Naples.
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The Norse town of Dyflinn or Dublin is discovered in Ireland.
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THe Moors lose Madrid to the KIngdom of Leon.
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King Edumun 1 of England take Northumbria from the Vikings.
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A Byzantine amry under Nikephoros Phokas captures and plunders Aleppo.
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Nicephorus II begins a campaign to recapture Cilicia.
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Christianity is adopted in Iceland.
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First seige by Rus on Constantinople.
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Rurik gains control of Novgrod.
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Oleg of Novgorod takesKiev and makes it his capital.
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VIkings besiege Paris.
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Ole leads the Kievan Rus' in a campaign against Constantinople.
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Lombards turn WEst and join the Bavarians, Sarmatians, Saxons, and Taifaili to invade the Italians.
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Covodba the capital of Al-Andalus becomes the largest city in the world and taking the lead from Bahdad which is capital of ABbasid caliph Ar-Radi.
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Cerdic and cynric land somewhere on the south coast of Great Britian.
Cerdic and cynric land somewhere on the south coast of Great Britian.