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507
CLovis dictates the Salic Law
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572
Byazantine Empire
Byzantine emperor Justin II breaks peace with Persia and invades Nisibis.Lombards take the Byzantine stronghold of Pavia and establish the Kingdom of the Lombards in Nothern Italy -
Feb 12, 600
Small pox arrives in Euope for the first time. Augstine of Canterbury converts King Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity.
Small pox arrives in Euope for the first time. Augstine of Canterbury converts King Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity. -
Feb 12, 641
Arab Siege
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Feb 12, 707
Byzantines lose the Balearic Islands to the Moors
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Feb 12, 723
Saint Boniface cuts Thors Oak near Fritzlar ,marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the nothern Germanic tribes.
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Feb 12, 732
The leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordova,Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi
The leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordova,Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi -
Feb 12, 751
Pepin the short is elected as king of the franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and the beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.
Pepin the short is elected as king of the franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and the beginning of the Carolingian dynasty. -
Feb 20, 1010
Beowulf is then created
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Feb 20, 1031
The moorish caliphate of cordoba collapses
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Feb 20, 1033
Panic spreads throughout europe at the end of the world may be near
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Feb 20, 1037
george maniaces begins a campaign against the arabs in sicily
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Feb 20, 1047
the first contact occurs between the byzantine empire and the seljuks
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Feb 20, 1048
last viking raid on the kingdom of england
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Feb 20, 1055
the seljuk turks capture baghdad
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Feb 20, 1134
the saint denis basilica, near paris, is damaged by fire
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Feb 20, 1137
louis Vll is crowned king of france
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Feb 20, 1150
The earliest reference is made to Gypsies
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Feb 20, 1155
frederick l barbarossa is crowned holy roman empire
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Feb 20, 1167
William Marshal is given the name "the greatest knight"
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Feb 20, 1183
saladin conquers syria and becomes sultan
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Feb 20, 1215
King Jonh of England forced his seal on the Magna Carta
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Feb 20, 1233
The Inquisition is established
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Feb 20, 1248
Roger Bacon published the formula for black powder
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Feb 20, 1259
King Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree the Treaty of Paris
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Feb 20, 1265
n westminister the first english parliament conduct first meeting
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Feb 20, 1270
King Louis IX of France launches the 8th Crusade
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Feb 20, 1382
the firs recorded association of valentine's day with romantic love
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Feb 20, 1400
the medici family becomes powerful in florence
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Feb 20, 1403
jan hus begins preaching wycliffite ideas in bohemia
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Feb 20, 1412
the medici family are made official bankers of the papacy
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Feb 20, 1427
the first band of gypsies visits paris
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Feb 20, 1431
nineteen year old joan of arc is burned at stake for being accused of hearing the devil
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Feb 20, 1440
the prussian confederation is formed
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FUre devastates consantinople
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Reccared, King of the Visigoths
The king of the visigoths all win military victories over the Byzantine Empire and gain territory at their expence. -
The Lombards convert to Christiaity.
The Lombards convert to Christiaity. -
The plauge reaches rome, killing pope pelaguis II.
The plauge reaches rome, killing pope pelaguis II. -
A byzantine army under nikephoros phokas captures and plunders aleppo
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Cedric and Cyrinic land somewhere in te great south
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Cadwalders launches the last wedish in saxon in britian
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The ango saxon chronicle records he first appearance of vikings in england
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In the earliest recorded viking raid on ireland, they attack iona, inisbofin and inismurray
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Oleg of novgorod takes kiev and makes it his capital
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December 25-Pope leo 111 crowns charlemagne emperor of the holy poman empire in saint peter's basilica in rome
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Egbert of wessex becomes the first king of england
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Egbert of wessex conquers mercia and is recognized as bretwalda
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First siege of constantinople by the RUS
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Rurik gains control of novgorod
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Louis 11 beats the saracen invaders in italy
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Nine battles are fought between the danes and wessex
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Christianity is adopted in iceland
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The vikings besiege paris
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The moors lose madrid to the kingdom of leon
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King edmund 1 of england takes northumbria from the vikings
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Olga of kiev converts to the eastern orthodox church from paganism
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Marking the start if the Reconquista by a Christian miltary force(under Pelagius of Asturias) of the Iberian Peninsula following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711. Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian and Khan Tervel of Bulgaria force the troops o
Marking the start if the Reconquista by a Christian miltary force(under Pelagius of Asturias) of the Iberian Peninsula following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711. Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian and Khan Tervel of Bulgaria force the troops of the Umayyad Caliphate to abandon the Second Arab Seige of Constantinople (717-718), preventing the spread a major Arab incursion into the Byzantine Empire.