BOOK IV
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
486–751: |
Merovingian dynasty in Gaul |
490–543: |
St. Benedict |
520–60: |
Growth of Irish academies |
521–98: |
St. Columba |
543–615: |
St. Columban |
568–774: |
Lombard kingdom in Italy |
568f: |
Founding of Venice |
582–602: |
Maurice Eastern emperor |
590–604: |
Pope Gregory I the Great |
590–616: |
Ethelbert King of Kent |
597: |
Augustine converts England |
600–1100: |
fl. Gregorian chant |
602–10: |
Usurpation of Phocas |
610–41: |
Heraclius Eastern emperor |
625–90: |
Paul of Ægina, physician |
629–38: |
Dagobert King of the Franks |
640: |
Slavs enter the Balkans |
c. 650: |
Beowulf; Cædmon, poet |
651: |
Hôtel-Dieu founded at Paris |
673–735: |
Venerable Bede, historian |
680–754: |
Boniface, apostle to Germany |
687–714: |
Pepin the Younger rules Franks |
697 |
First doge in Venice |
713–16: |
Anastasius II Eastern emp. |
717–41: |
Leo III the Isaurian, Eastern emp. |
726f: |
Iconoclastic movement in Byzantium |
735: |
The School of York |
735–804: |
Alcuin, educator |
751–68: |
Pepin the Short rules Franks |
751–987: |
Carolingian dynasty of Frank kings |
756: |
Donation of Pepin establishes temporal power of popes |
768–814: |
Charlemagne King of the Franks |
772–804: |
Charlemagne wars against Saxons |
774: |
Charlemagne annexes Lombard crown |
774–1200: |
Romanesque architecture |
776–856: |
Rabanus Maurus, educator |
778: |
Charlemagne in Spain; Roland at Roncesvalles |
780–90: |
Irene regent at Constantinople |
787: |
Danes begin to raid England |
795: |
Danes begin to raid Ireland |
797–802: |
Irene Eastern “emperor” |
800: |
Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor of Roman Empire |
802: |
fl. Bulgaria under Khan Krum |
813–20: |
Leo V the Armenian Eastern emp. |
814–40: |
Louis I the Pious King of the Franks |
815–77: |
John Scotus Erigena, phil’r |
c. 820: |
The Variagi enter Russia |
829: |
Egbert founds Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy & becomes first King of England |
829–42: |
Theophilus I Eastern emperor |
841–924: |
Norse raids in France |
843: |
Partition of Verdun; Ludwig becomes first King of Germany |
845–82: |
Hincmar Bishop of Reims |
848f: |
Medical School of Salerno |
c. 850: |
The Book of Kells; Leo of Salonika, math’n |
852–88: |
Boris Bulgarian khan & saint |
857–91: |
Photius patriarch at C’ple |
858–67: |
Pope Nicholas I |
859: |
Rurik Grand Prince of Russia |
860–933: |
Harald Haarfager first King of Norway |
862: |
The Variagi at Novgorod |
863: |
Mission of Cyril and Methodius to Moravians |
867–86: |
Basil I founds Macedonian dynasty |
871–901: |
Alfred the Great |
872: |
Norsemen colonize Iceland |
875–7: |
Charles the Bald, Western emp. |
886: |
Norse besiege Paris |
886–912: |
Leo VI the Wise, Eastern emp. |
887f: |
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
888: |
Odo King of France |
893–927: |
Simeon Bulgar emperor |
899–943: |
Magyars ravage Europe |
905: |
Sancho I founds Kingdom of Navarre |
910: |
Abbey of Cluny founded |
911: |
Conrad I King of Germany; Rollo Duke of Normandy |
912–50: |
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus |
c. 917: |
The Greek Anthology |
919–36: |
Henry I the Fowler King of Germany |
925–88: |
St. Dunstan |
928–35: |
Venceslas I King of Bohemia |
930: |
Icelandic Althing est’d |
934–60: |
Haakon the Good King of Norway |
936–73: |
Otto I King of Germany |
950: |
Zenith of medieval Irish literature |
955: |
Otto defeats Magyars on the Lechfeld |
961: |
Convent of St. Lavra on Mt. Athos |
962: |
Otto I Western Roman emperor |
963: |
Otto deposes Pope John XII |
963–9: |
Nicephorus Phocas Eastern emp. |
965–95: |
Haakon the “Great Earl” King of Norway |
968: |
Hroswitha, dramatist |
973—83: |
Otto II of Germany |
975–1035: |
Sancho the Great King of Navarre |
976: |
Suidas’ Lexicon |
976–1014: |
Brian Borumha King of Munster |
976–1026: |
Basil II Eastern emperor |
976–1071: |
St. Mark’s at Venice |
980–1015: |
Vladimir I Prince of Kiev |
983–1002: |
Otto III of Germany |
987–96: |
Hugh Capet founds Capetian dynasty of French kings |
989: |
Russia converted to Christianity |
992–1025: |
Boleslav I first King of Poland |
994f: |
Cluny monastic reform |
997–1038: |
St. Stephen King of Hungary |
999–1003: |
Pope Sylvester II (Gerbert) |
1000: |
Leif Ericsson in “Vinland” |
1002–24: |
Henry II of Germany |
1007–28: |
Fulbert Bishop of Chartres |
1009–1200: |
German Romanesque |
1013: |
Sweyn of Denmark conquers England |
1014: |
Brian Borumha defeats Norse at Clontarf |
1015–30: |
St. Olaf King of Norway |
1016–35: |
Cnut King of England |
1018–80: |
Michael Psellus, historian |
1022–87: |
Constantine the African, translator |
1024–39: |
Conrad II of Germany |
1028–50: |
Zoë and Theodora rule Eastern Empire |
1033–1109: |
St. Anselm |
1034–40: |
Duncan I King of Scotland |
1035–47: |
Magnus the Good King of Norway |
1039–56: |
Henry III of Germany |
1040–52: |
Macbeth usurper King of Scotland |
1040–99: |
Rodrigo Diaz el Cid |
1043–66: |
Edward the Confessor King of England |
1046–71: |
Church of St. Ambrose at Milan |
1048f: |
Abbey of Jumièges |
1049–54: |
Pope Leo IX |
1052: |
d. of Earl Godwin, statesman |
1054: |
Schism of Greek from Roman Church |
1055–6: |
Theodora Eastern empress |
1056–1106: |
Henry IV of Germany |
1057–9: |
Isaac Comnenus Eastern emp. |
1057–72: |
Peter Damian Bishop of Ostia |
1058: |
Malcolm III of Scotland deposes Macbeth |
1059–61: |
Pope Nicholas II; College of Cardinals established |
1060: |
Robert Guiscard Duke of Apulia |
1061–91: |
Norman Conquest of Sicily |
1063: |
Prince Harold conquers Wales |
1063f: |
Cathedral of Pisa |
1066: |
Harold King of England; Battle of Hastings; Norman Conquest of England |
1073–85: |
Pope Gregory VII Hildebrand |
1075: |
Decree against lay investiture; excommunication of Henry IV |
1077: |
Henry IV at Canossa |
1081–1118: |
Alexius I Eastern emp. |
1085: |
Sack of Rome by Robert Guiscard |