500 to 1000 AD

500 AD Central Asia the Rouran and Toyuhan Culture emerges
500 AD Brittany British settlement continues into 7th century
500 AD Gaul source Medard
500 AD Britain Taliesin Chief Druid and Bard of Britain in the kingdom of Rheged - list of kings – the old Tribal area of the Brigantes with some new immigration from Ireland
500 AD Wales list of kings of Gwynedd the old kingdom of the Ordovices
500 AD Wales list of kings of Powys the old kingdom of the Ordovices
500 AD Wales Gwent the old kingdom of the Silures
500 AD Wales Brycheiniog the old kingdom of the Silures
500 AD Wales Glamorgan the old kingdom of the Silures home to Dubricius Teilo and Samson and David and a king Morgan who seems to have connections with Morgan le Fay and her son Urien who becomes a king in Rheged and is mentioned in the Arthurian tales as Ywain
500 AD Wales Dyfed list of kings the old kingdom of the Demetae
500 AD Wales Ceredigion list of kings the old kingdom of the Demetae
500 AD Ireland list of kings of Ulster and list of irish kings and early history of Ireland
500 AD Wales source Welsh Triads
500 AD Scotland the Dal Riada kingdom founded possibly a conjoining of Picts and Irish peoples
500 AD Gaul Gundobad king of Burgundy
500 AD Britain the Druid warrior Illtyd supposedly converts to Christianity and becomes a Welsh saint
500 AD Britain another warrior Dubricius supposedly converts to Christianity and becomes a Welsh saint, but not until he installs Deisi Arthur, also known as Arthur of Dyfed, reputedly a descendant of Beli Mawr, as Prince of Dyfed, the old kingdom of Demetae. Deisi Arthur may in fact have been an Irish warrior, and he is referred to as a tyrant in the Lives of the Saints, most of which were written after 1000 and Christianised everybody (well they had to!) and King Arthur may well have been written out of Christian histories because he was in fact a pagan, hence his association with Merlin. Deisi Arthur is just one of many contenders for the position of King Arthur, and there are many of them! Early Welsh histories that escaped the Christianisation process to some extent include the Red Book of Hengest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the Book of Taliesin collected together and published by Lady Charlotte Guest as the Mabinogion sometime in the 1830s AD.
500 AD Britain source Hanes Taliesin including instructions of Enoch, Masonic knowledge, Eleusian Mysteries, Uriel‘s machine instructions, quoting the Tuatha de Danann at Newgrange as the source via Gwynedd or Gwydion also known as White Track or White Stone – see Columba 575 AD entry
500 AD China source Book of Han
500 AD China source Book of Wei
500 AD Wales source Book of Aneirin
500 AD Wales source Life of St. David
500 AD Wales source Annales Cambriae
500 AD Britain source Geoffrey of Monmouth Historia Regum Britanniae
500 AD Britain source Nennius Historia Britonum
500 AD Britain source Gildas the Ruin of Britain and the History of the Britons
500 AD Britain source Bede
500 AD Ireland source Book of Kells
500 AD Ireland source Annals of the Four Masters
500 AD Ireland source Ulster Cycle
500 AD Ireland source Seathrun Ceitinn
500 AD Ireland source Annals of Tigernach
500 AD Ireland source Annals of Ulster
500 AD Ireland source Senchus fer n Alban
500 AD Ireland source Prophecy of Bercha
500 AD Ireland source Lebor Gabala Erenn
500 AD Ireland source Irish Annals and Chronicon Scotorum and Annals of Inisfallen
500 AD Ireland source Life of St. Declan
500 AD Ireland source Scela Cano Meic Gartnain
500 AD Scotland source Chronicle of the Scots
500 AD Scotland source De Situ Albanie
500 AD Scotland source Duan Albanach
500 AD Scotland source Life of St. Columba
500 AD Scotland source Book of Ballymote
500 AD Scotland source Life of St. Mungo
500 AD South East Asia the Buddhist Srivijaya Culture emerges in Sumatra
500 AD North Africa the Zanata Culture and ally themselves with the Berber Culture and the Masmuda Culture across North Africa to Morocco
500 AD Byzantine source Zosimus
500 AD Portugal Lusitania under Roman occupation invaded by Germanic Tribes
500 AD North Africa Egypt many earthquakes have struck Alexandria – as many as 23 by some accounts – and the city of Cleopatra slipped below the waves
500 AD Rome list of Popes
506 AD Gaul the Franks capture Provence from the Ostrogoths and drive the Visigoths into Spain who establish a kingdom there and the abandon Arianism and convert to Roman Catholicism
509 AD Gaul Merovingian Catholic Frank king Clovis I founds Paris
510 AD Gaul Caesarius preaching his hell fire sermons which designate three classes of people – clerics, merchants and peasants, the latter designated for slavery and advised to use female infanticide, though he was very careful to skirt around Pelagianism. The Druids had three classes – priests, warriors and people. Caesarius was a pupil of Augustine of Hippo, the main antagonist of Pelagius, a proponent of pagan humanism, and these sermons mark a turning point in Roman Catholicism’s fight back against their old allies, the Druids in the struggle for power in this new age under their protege Clovis I.
511 AD Gaul Clovis I dead
512 AD Britain Tintagel is the biggest trading port in Britain
513 AD Gaul Buidic king of Brittany dead. Map of British Amorica
514 AD Britain the Isle of Mann conquered by Cairill of Antrim and reputedly Aurelius sends a naval force to reconquer the island
515 AD Rome Perpetual Praise adopted
517 AD East Africa Yusuf Asar becomes king in Aksum
520 AD Brittany Hoel I from Britain king
521 AD Wales Samson of Dol Illtud Pyr Dubricius David Paul Aurelian Gildas Tudwal and Baglan all study at Llantwit Major
522 AD Rome source Boethius
522 AD Rome source Cassiodorus
522 AD Rome Theodoric the Great annexes Provence, Spain and Dalmatia
523 AD Ireland Brigid founds Kildare
527 AD Byzantium Belisarius has control of military under Justinian I and he ends the Persian Wars and campaigns widely in the East
527 AD Britain Aescwine founds Essex – Part of the old Inceni tribal lands
528 AD Korea Buddhism introduced and centuries of war come to an end, resulting in a cultural renaissance and a surge in knowledge
528 AD Byzantium source Procopius
530 AD Brittany Ywain found House D’Aqs
530 AD Byzantium Justinian I complies the Corpus Juris Civilis which will become the basis of Roman Law for all future Western civilisation, except England based on all Roman Edicts issued since 117 AD
533 AD North Africa Belisarius conquers the Vandals and the Byzantine Empire rebuilds Carthage
533 AD Rome declares Perpetual Peace
534 AD Britain Cynric king of Wessex – the old kingdom of the Dumnonii tribe
534 AD Britain ?Uther Pendragon king?
534 AD Britain Maelgwyn king of Gwynedd Pendragon in the line of legendary kings of Britain
535 AD Rome Belisarius conquers Italy from the Goths
535 AD Gaul the Franks conquer Burgundy
536 AD Papua New Guinea the Rabaul volcano caused global effects
537 AD Britain possible date for Battle of Camlann
537 AD Gaul the Franks conquer Provence
537 AD Byzantium Hagia Sophia built
540 AD Britain reputed date for death of Merlin at Dinas Emrys
541 AD Rome the Justinian Plague is the first recorded pandemic and may be a precursor to the Black Death. Reputedly, over 100,000 million people died throughout Europe at this time.
541 AD Balkans invasions by Slavs and Persia and Bulgars
541 AD Persia attacks the Byzantine Empire – again
545 AD Yemen the Marib Dam repaired
546 AD Britain Taliesin wins chair at Eisteddfod
546 AD Britain Yellow Plague
547 AD Britain Angles Ida king of Bernicia list of kings of Bernicia the old kingdom of the Votadini
547 AD Britain David founds monastery in Wales under the tutelage of Paulinus
548 AD Byzantium The Empress Theodora died, leaving Justinian I to rule alone for another 17 years, but the Byzantine Empire could not afford to maintain the Western half of the Roman Empire, so it pulled back, leaving Europe to fend for itself. The Justinian Plague leaves Europe empty of people and the economy of Rome in the West collapses.
549 AD Ireland Ciaran founds Clonmacnoise
549 AD Ireland Finnian dead
550 AD Cambodia the Chenla Culture emerges
550 AD Japan the Asuka Culture emerges
550 AD Europe Yellow Plague kills half of Europe
550 AD Gaul source Gregory of Tours
550 AD Gaul source Getica Jordannes
550 AD Rome has been pumping out antisemitism for centuries now goes up a notch under North African Fulgentius of Ruspe. Rome also pumping out constant original sin and no free will and predestination as individuality is subsumed into Relics
552 AD Rome Belisarius conquers for Byzantium
552 AD Central Asia the Gokturk Empire formed after the Huns left for Europe
553 AD Rome Belisarius conquer the Goths
554 AD Gaul Merovingian Frank king Chlothar I absorbs Theodebald‘s Ostrogoth kingdom
555 AD Scotland Brude I king of the Picts list of Pictish kings
556 AS Rome the Pope assumes the name Pelagius I, no doubt to win confused converts from Pelagianism
559 AD Scotland Conall was a son of Gabran, and now becomes king of the Dal Riada kingdom. He had a son called Artan – another contender for King Arthur?
560 AD Britain the Angles control Yorkshire – Deira the old kingdom of the Brigantes
560 AD Britain Ceawlin king of Wessex the old kingdom of the Dumnonii
563 AD Britain Columba founds Iona, reputedly on the site of a shrine to Asherah. Like Constantine and the early church fathers had previously cobbled together acceptable Roman Christian belief (see 325 AD), Britain was a cauldron of ancient and modern religious practice at this time and Columba also incorporated pre existing beliefs into Celtic Christianity. Many of the Arthurian characters may have been taken from this rich tradition of mythology, and most people at this time would have associated their origins with them. The similarity of ancient myths from all over the ancient world show their common origin in the distant past, and both types of Christianity absorbed as many of them as they could manage
564 AD North Atlantic Ocean Voyage of St. Brendan
565 AD Ireland Dairmait mac Cerbail Druid High King of Ireland dead. Aed mac Ainmuirech now High King
567 AD Rome the Lombards invade
570 AD Saudi Arabia Muhammed born
570 AD Britain Saxons invade Buckinghamshire and the Upper Thames Valley the old kingdom of the Trinovantes
572 AD Rome Justin II constant war in Eastern Roman Empire
573 AD North Africa the Moors revolt and Byzantium puts them down
573 AD Byzantium Persia invades – again
573 AD Britain Gwenddolau king of the North killed by Peredur. His magician Myrddin, Myrddin Wyllt or Laloiken reputedly goes mad and hides in the Caledonian Forest, but the tales are reported by Christianised monks at a much later date who would want to downplay his character. The reason why there are so many Merlins may be that this is a Druid title and so many would have held it during this time period
574 AD Italy the Lombards invade
575 AD Yemen the Marib Dam abandoned and the people migrate to Medina in Saudi Arabia, originally a Jewish settlement
575 AD Gaul list of Frankish kings
575 AD Scotland Guletic of Dumbarton Pendragon king of the Britons – associated with a King Arthur aged 16
575 AD Scotland Druid convert Columba converts to Christianity and reputedly appoints Arthur king in Wales and his father Constantine king in Scotland both as Pendragons. Constantine II was a usurper Emperor in 407 AD and his sons may well have kept his name, explaining the references to ‘ancestors who wore the purple’ which continue to follow King Arthur around in the myths and establish in the Pictish king names and in the Scottish king names. Columba also removed Eoganan as king of Dal Riada and appointed Aedan. (?Only a Druid could do this, or is it because he is Irish aristocracy, a distant cousin to High King of Ireland Aed mac Ainmuirech and great great Grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages?) Columba held talks with the Druids at Inverness Druin Cett and reputedly said ‘Christ is my Druid’ and he sets up a White Stone – see Taliesin’s White Stone from Newgrange 500 AD. Columba also converts the Picts under Brude I in Inverness to Christianity, probably how the name of Constantine transmits to the king lists, and founds Iona and offshoot settlements in Iceland and the Isle of Mann list of Pictish kings list of Dal Riada kings
577 AD Britain the Gewissae defeat three British kings at the Battle of Deorham and Ceawlin of Wessex expands
579 AD Balkans the Avars revolt
580 AD Britain High Kings Pendragon Pryderi and Peredur dead
580 AD Britain Ethebert king of Kent the old kingdom of the Regnenses. As first Christian king, Ethebert codifies Law Codes and marries his daughter Bertha to the Merovingian Frankish king of Paris
580 AD Balkans the Avars drive the Slavs into Roman territory.
584 AD China The Grand Canal begun in 486 BCE extended by the Sui Dynasty to become the largest man made waterway ever constructed in the World, stretching 1,800 kilometers and costing the lives of half of the 6,000,000 workers it took to construct it, and leading to the Collapse of the Sui Dynasty itself in 618 AD.
585 AD Britain the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Mercia established list of Mercian kings
586 AD Spain Visigoth king Reccared converts to Roman Catholicism and all Arian books burnt
588 AD Scotland Constantine king of the Picts converts to Christianity according to the Welsh Annals - this name keeps appearing though the origins are shadowy, they are there… see Caustantin
589 AD Ireland Finnian, teacher of Columba dead. Finnian has an aroma of Druidry about him, as does Columba
589 AD Spain the Council of Toledo marks the split between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire. The Roman Catholics proclaim the Filoque – the Spirit comes from the Father and the Son. The Byzantine Empire disagreed and said the Spirit comes from the Father through the Son
590 AD Rome Gregory the Great Pope
590 AD Ireland Celtic Christianity spreading via Irish monks throughout Europe
590 AD Wales Arthur? dead. Aedan mac Gabrain‘s son Artur killed at the battle of Leithreid or Leithrig. He may be Cynan Garwyn king of Powys married to Gwenwynwyn – another date for the famous hero? Was Columba an ‘Arthur’ or a ‘Merlin’? Like ‘Arthur’ ‘Merlin’ may have been a title? Well, if he walks like an Arthur and he sounds like a Merlin… Also, there are plenty of ancient precedents for the titles of warrior priest to come together in one individual
593 AD Britain Aethelfrith king of Northumbria formed from the old kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira the old tribal lands of the Brigantes
597 AD Britain Columba dead
597 AD Britain Roman Catholic Augustine founds the King’s School in Canterbury and sets about reorganising the languages of Britain into a standard form. This work is taken up by Wearmouth and Jarrow later. Augustine arrives with forty priests to counter the Celtic Church (and remove the influence of the Asherah? see language discussion under 10000 to 5000 BCE and follow this Augustine thread forwards) and they set about converting the Anglo Saxons
598 AD Britain the kingdom of Rheged defeated by Anglo Saxons at the Battle of Catraeth
599 AD Byzantine Emperor Maurice ends conflicts with Slavs by Treaty and wins the Balkans
600 AD Central Asia the Turkic Culture emerges and the Sui Dynasty emerges in China to contest them
600 AD Britain Raedwald king of East Anglia the old Inceni tribal lands list of East Anglian kings
600 AD Britain the Anglo Saxons have all of Britain except Dumnonia, Cornwall and Wales, the Pennines and the North West, presumably part of Rheged not conquered by the Saxons. list of kings of Dumnonia from which St. Constantine and Constantine III stand out with plenty of Arthurian connections!
600 AD Britain Avalon reputedly Viviane is High Queen and her grandmother Morgaine is High Queen in Brittany
600 AD Japan adopts Buddhism
600 AD Wales source Beuno
600 AD Wales source Tysilio
600 AD Wales source Cadog
600 AD Wales source Asaph
600 AD Wales source Samson
600 AD Wales source Illtud
600 AD Wales source Teilo
600 AD Britain source Taliesin
600 AD Britain source Y Gododdin
600 AD Britain source Widsith
600 AD Rome source Gregory the Great
600 AD Gaul now increasingly called Francia
600 AD Byzantine Empire fights for survival
604 AD Britain Roman Catholic Ethebert founds St. Pauls and Rochester Cathedrals (though they won’t achieve this status till later?)
604 AD Rome the Apostle’s Creed and the Communion of Saints developed
604 AD Britain Irish Dal Raida Aedan mac Gabrain defeated by Aethelfrith at the Battle of Degsastan. Archpriest ‘Mordred’ and ‘Arthur’ reputedly killed. Aedan’s son Artur was killed about 590 at the Battle of Leithreid or Liethrig about 590 ?more titles? Aedan takes Scotland and Aethelfrith takes Northumbria
604 AD Britain Roman Catholic Augustine allowed in by Ethelbert now becomes the first Archbishop of Canterbury
605 AD Persia the Sassanid Empire annexed Egypt and conquers Syria
610 AD Saudi Arabia Muhammed writes the Qur’an
611 AD Europe Irish Columbanus founds monasteries in Francia and Italy and Irish monastries become centres of excellence all over Europe as Celtic Christianity fans out across Europe
611 AD Saudi Arabia Muhammed preaching
613 AD Britain Aethelfrith conquers Powys
614 AD Judea the Persians sack Jerusalem
614 AD Francia the Edict of Paris is the Merovingian French ‘Magna Carta’
615 AD Balkans overun by Avars
615 AD Britain Roman Catholic Ethebert of Kent codifies the British Law Codes list of Kentish kings
616 AD Britain Saxons invade Bernicia and Edwin becomes king of Northumbria list of kings of Northumbria
616 AD Britain Westminster Abbey founded
616 AD Britain Eadbald of Kent reverts to paganism
617 AD Britain Roman Catholic Raedwald of East Anglia defeats Northumbria list of East Anglian kings. Archaeologists believe that Raedwald was buried at Sutton Hoo
618 AD China The Tang Dynasty begins its trade with Calicut in India
618 AD India the Zamorins, Hindu kings, establish an extensive trading network throughout the Indian Ocean as far as Africa and South East Asia
618 AD China enters the Tang Dynastic period causing the An Shui Rebellion
619 AD Britain Roman Catholic Paulinus arrives
621 AD Persia Islamic foundation of Basra and Kufa
622 AD Balkans Slavs Avars and Persians in Alliance against the Byzantine Empire list of Avar kings Slavs and Avars have intact Indo European religion from the Proto European religion of all the European and Eurasian tribes
627 AD Byzantime Empire and Persians fight themselves into a joint defeat and the Persian Empire begins to collapse. The Byzantine Empire rallies but the Islamic uprising overtakes it. The Visigoths expel the Byzantine Empire from Spain
627 AD Britain Roman Catholic Paulinus reestablishes the Archbishopric of York under Edwin of Northumbria
630 AD Yemen Persians overun Sabaean Culture and the Frankincense trade fails because Christians don’t use it
630 AD Germania Alamanni Thuringians Bavarians Saxons move south and clash with the Franks
631 AD Britain Roman Catholic Edwin of Northumbria takes North Wales Anglesea and the Isle of Mann but pagan Penda of Mercia and Celtic Christian Cadwallon of Gwynedd join forces to defeat him
632 AD Bulgaria the Bulgars arrive and form a kingdom
632 AD Britain Roman Catholic Fursa in East Anglia
632 AD North Africa the Islamics sack Carthage
632 AD Saudi Arabia Muhammed dead
632 AD Middle East the Muslim Conquests begin after the death of Muhammad across the Arabian Penninsula under the Rashidun and the Ridda Wars begin
633 AD Britain pagan Penda king of Wessex defeats Roman Catholic Edwin of Northumbria and allies with Celtic Christian king Cadwallon of Gwynedd who go on to defeat Osric of Deira and Ecgric of East Anglia
634 AD Britain Oswald of Northumbria conquers Gododdin and invites Celtic Christian Aidan from Iona to found Lindisfarne. Roman Catholic Paulinus flees to Kent
634 AD Byzantine Empire totally defeated by Islam in the Battle of Ajnadayn
635 AD China Nestorian Christians arrive
635 AD Mongolia Nestorian Christians arrive
635 AD Korea Nestorian Christians arrive
635 AD Britain pagan Penda conquers East Anglia
636 AD Byzantine Empire defeated by Islam at the Battle of Yarmouk and Islam retains Syria and Judea. The Byzantine Empire blames the defeats on the religious divisions of Iconoclasm and Monophytism
636 AD Britain Roman Catholic Birunus converts Wessex
637 AD Persia converted to Islam and the Sassanid Empire ends. Zoroastrianism survives alongside Islam and many other religious sects forbidden in the West also survive
637 AD Ireland wars between Dal Riada and O’Neills results in Scotland ruled from Ireland until 730 AD
638 AD Britain Oswald of Northumbria conquers the Dal Riada in Scotland and captures Edinburgh
639 AD North Africa Islam conquers Egypt
640 AD Francia the Merovingian Franks failing and the Frisians Saxons Alamans Bavarians and Aquitaine become independent. Grimoald becomes important in Australasia
642 AD Egypt Alexandria‘s library reputedly destroyed by Islam, or is it carted off to Baghdad?
642 AD Francia source Fredegar’s Chronicle
642 AD Persia Islam conquers list of Sassanid kings
642 AD Britain pagan Penda allies with Celtic Christian Powys to defeat Celtic Christian Oswald of Northumbria and Roman Catholic Anna of East Anglia making Penda the most powerful king in Britain and bringing Mercia into sharp focus. ?Was Penda an ‘Arthur’ or a ‘Pendragon’? Penda tolerated Celtic Christianity in Mercia, but he was against the ‘religious colonialism’ of the Roman Catholics elsewhere, and he continued to campaign against Bernicia and Deira because of their support of Roman Catholicism in East Anglia. Celtic Christian Aidan won praise from Felix and was friends with Oswine of Deira, killed by Oswiu of Northumbria who had Roman Catholic support. Obviously, there was plenty of religious politicking going on
643 AD Italy the Lombards drive the Byzantine Empire from the peninsula list of Lombard Kings
644 AD Persia Islam the Emergence of the Hereditary Caliphates
645 AD Wales the Monastery of St Davids burnt down
645 AD Britain Penda drives pagan Cenwealh out of Wessex and conquers Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Cenwealh takes refuge with Anna of East Anglia and converts to Roman Catholicism
648 AD Britain Roman Catholic Cenwealh restored to his kingship in Wessex and he allows Roman Catholic Birinus to convert Wessex
649 AD Cyprus Islam conquers temporarily
650 AD Ireland source Book of Durrow
650 AD Britian source Winifred
650 AD Britain source Caedmon
650 AD Britain source Birinus
650 AD Britain source Adomnan Life of Columba mentions Arthur
650 AD Britain source Bede
651 AD Persia the Aryan Sassanid Empire fades
651 AD Britain Celtic Christian Aidan of Lindisfarne dead
652 AD Britain Roman Catholic Biscop founds Jarrow and Wearmouth in Northumbria
653 AD Britain Celtic Christian Cedd of Lindisfarne converts Mercia
653 AD Rhodes Islam invades and breaks up the Colossus
653 AD Byzantine source Theophanes
654 AD Wales Cadwaladr of Gwynedd Pendragon
655 AD Britain pagan Penda killed at the Battle of Winwaed and Mercia is split up in the aftermath as Northumbria resumes its dominant position.
655 AD Frankia Grimoald kidnaps Merovingian Dagobert II and sent him to live in exile in Ireland (to be influenced by all those Celtic Christians and Druids…?)
656 AD Britain Penda’s son Peada of Mercia is murdered and Northumbria takes control list of Northumbrian kings
655 AD Britain Roman Catholic Felix arrives to convert East Anglia
658 AD Britain Roman Catholic Wessex expands into Devon and Cornwall
658 AD Wales Celtic Christian Cadwaladr of Gwynedd leads a major revolt against Roman Catholic Wessex
659 AD Britain Mercia regains its independence from Northumbria under Penda’s son Wulfhere list of Mercian kings
660 AD Korea wins its independence from China and the Goguryea and Baekju Cultures fades. Korea is now a Buddhist Nation under the Silla Culture
660 AD Byzantine Empire proscribed Paulicianism a sect wishing to restore original Pauline doctrine
661 AD North Africa Islam the Umayyad Dynasty
661 AD Britain Wulfhere of Mercia takes Southern Britain under Mercian control
664 AD Britain Oswiu of Northumbria summonded the Synod of Whitby brings Celtic Christianity into line with Roman Catholicism and the date of Easter standardised to differentiate Christian Easter from the Jewish Passover and the pagan spring goddess whose ceremonies concerned the celebration of passion and the release of life, the reason why Easter was specifically chosen as Christ’s passion and resurrection, to transform pagan beliefs, which the Roman Church hastily adapted (see 325 AD), and to standardise the form of tonsure because the tonsure of Celtic Christianity had not changed since Druidic times, obviously a gross offence to Roman Catholics – people present at Whitby Saint Hilda Oswui of Northumbria Finan of Lindisfarne Colman of Lindisfarne Wilfred of York
666 AD Britain Roman Catholic Wilfred replaced as Archbishop of York by Celtic Christian Chad
666 AD Britain Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury reorganises the British Church and introduces the Gregorian Chant
669 AD North Africa Islam conquers along the whole coast
669 AD Britain Chad steps down as Archbishop of York in favour of Wilfred
670 AD Britain Ecgfrith of Northumbria combines Deira and Bernicia and expels Wilfred from York. Ecgfrith also campaigned against the Picts and incorporates their new kingdom of Lothian into Northumbria
670 AD Byzantine Empire struggling to survive the arrival of Slavs and Bulgars
671 AD Britain source Aldhelm Bishop of Sherbourne
673 AD Britain Ely founded
673 AD Britain Wilfred discloses Grimoald‘s treachery in Francia
674 AD Byzantine Empire defeats Islam at Constantinope with Greek Fire
675 AD Britain Aethelred of Mercia, another son of Penda, campaigns in Kent
676 AD Britain Cuthbert hermit in Northumbria
676 AD Francia Dagobert II brought back from Ireland to become king in Austrasia with the help of Roman Catholic Wilfred from Britain via Rome. However the Mayors of the Palaces are now more influential than the Merovingian Franks and will soon take over the throne as the Carolingian Dynasty list of Merovingian kings
678 AD Britain Aethelred of Mercia expands into Northumbria
678 AD Britain Wilfred in exile and disgrace due to his involvement in the failed marriage of Ecgfrith of Northumbria and also with the murder of Dagobert II in Francia. Wilfred was also on the run from the Neustrian Mayor Ebroin in Francia because of suspicions he was plotting to unseat him, as Rome begins to excel in behind the scenes machinations, of which it will become adept in later centuries!
679 AD Britain Aethelred of Mercia captures Lindsey
679 AD Francia Dagobert II murdered and Rome approved and confirmed Pippin the Fat as king. Reputedly, Dagobert’s son Sigebert was taken and hidden at Rennes le Chateau
680 AD Britain York now the centre of Augustine‘s language development in contact with Egmond monastry in Holland
680 AD Middle East the Shia (who will only accept Muhammed’s descendants as rulers) diffentiate from the Sunni (Ummayad Caliphate) (Muslems not descended from Muhammed rule)
680 AD Bulgaria the Bulgars at war with the Byzantine Empire to found the new country
681 AD Francia Roman Catholic Leodegar murdered for his reputed machinations behind murder of Childeric II in another hunting accident, so soon after the murder of Dagobert II. Theuderic III becomes king of all Francia
681 AD Britain Rheged incorporated into Northumbria and the language development of Augustine and the influence of Northumbria leads to our loss of the Cumbric language
681 AD Bulgaria the Bulgarian Empire emerges
682 AD Britain plague in Ireland and Britain according to the Welsh Annals
684 AD Britain Ecgfrith of Northumbria raiding in Ireland
685 AD Scotland the Picts kill Ecgfrith of Northumbria in battle
686 AD Britain Wessex displaced by Mercia, so they move their capital to Winchester
686 AD Britain anarchy in Kent until 693 AD
688 AD Britain Eadfrith begins the Lindisfarne Gospels
688 AD Britain Caedwalla of Wessex conquers all of South Britain
690 AD Rome the Worship of Angels banned
691 AD Francia Merovingian Clovis IV puppet king of the Mayors of the Palace
692 AD Byzantine Empire the Chalcedonian Creed restored
697 AD North Africa Islam destroys Carthage – again
700 AD China invents the compass
700 AD Central Asia the Khazars emerge
700 AD Britain source Beowulf
700 AD Britain source Bede
700 AD Britain source Eddius Stephanus
700 AD Britain the libraries of Jarrow and Wearmouth are in contact with Rome
700 AD Britain source Codex Amiantinus
700 AD Britain source Guthlac
700 AD South America the Moche Culture fades in Peru probably due to a major el Nino event, but the people continue. The Chimu Culture emerges
700 AD Viet Nam the Champa Culture emerges
700 AD Brunei kingdoms emerge
700 AD Gaul Aquitaine seceded from Francia
700 AD Gaul Frisians seceded from Francia
700 AD Gaul Alamanni seceded from Francia
700 AD Gaul Provence seceded from Francia
700 AD Gaul Burgundy seceded from Francia
700 AD Britain the Witan Law codes enforced
703 AD Britain the Council of Austerfield ousts Wilfred from York
710 AD Persia the Khazars invade Iran and stop Islam invading Eastern Europe
711 AD Spain Islamic Al Andalus and the Islamic conquest of Spain
714 AD Francia Carolingian Charles Martel usurps the kingship
715 AD Francia civil war
716 AD Britain Ethelbald of Mercia invades Wessex
716 AD Wales Waleran writes the Saynt Graal
717 AD Scotland monks driven from Iona by Pictish King Nechtan IV
718 AD Byzantine Empire reconquers Anatolia from Islam using Greek Fire
718 AD Francia Carolingian Charles Martel victorous and campaiging across Gaul
721 AD Islamic Spain attacks Aquitaine. Charles Martel of Francia defeats them at the Battle of Toulouse
722 AD Britain Celtic Cornish and Vikings fighting together against Wessex
722 AD Spain Visigoth Pelagius defeats Islam at Battle of Covadogna
722 AD Wales defeats Ethelbald of Mercia
723 AD Germania Boniface converts the Germanic Tribes
725 AD Byzantine Empire torn apart by Iconoclasm Jews and Islam also favour this
731 AD Scotland the Picts conquer Dal Diada
731 AD Europe the use of the stirrup coming in from Central Asia transforms military cavalry
732 AD Francia Charles Martel defeats Islam at the Battle of Tours
736 AD Francia Charles Martel defeats Islam in Narbonne
738 AD Francia British Willibrord missionary to Frisia under the protection of Charles Martel
740 AD North Africa the Berbers revolt against Islam
740 AD Spain reputed Basque king Alfonso I defeats Islam in the north
741 AD Francia Charles Martel dead supreme power in Francia
742 AD Francia Charles Martel’s sons Carloman and Pippin the Short recapture Aquitaine, Bavaria, Frisia, Provence, Lombardy and defeat the Alamanni and dethrone the last Merovingian king Childeric III. Rome rewrites French history and conceals this for 1000 years. Rome claims the right to appoint kings to cover its role in undermining the Merovingians and laws are enacted to control who nobles can marry to prevent power bases forming, and to claim the Pope as king of Israel. Boniface of Britain crowned Pippin king of Francia and Stephen II consecrated him
742 AD Byzantine Empire revolt against Iconoclasm by Artabasdos defeated
745 AD Central Asia the Uyghur Empire emerges
745 AD North Africa civil war in Islam and the rise of the Abbasid dynasty
745 AD Britain source Willibald
747 AD North Africa Alexandria ?earthquake last Islamic coins date
750 AD Java Hinduism and Buddhism arrive Borobudur built and the Sailendra culture emerges
750 AD Britain Monkwearmouth Jarrow Priory now the finest library in England and Augustine‘s work on language development, according to Bede, is nearing its completion to eradicate the Ashera religious undertones of the indigenous languages of Britain
750 AD Central Asia the influence of the Sogdiani fades as the Islamic invasions disrupt trade along the Silk Road
750 AD Persia Islamic Abbasid Dynasty
750 AD Rome list of Popes
750 AD West Africa the Sahelian kingdoms in Ghana and began trading with the Arabs alongside the Takrur Culture, the Soninke Culture and the Malinke Culture along the Sahel. The Ashanti Culture and the Yoruba Culture in Nigeria were protected from incursions by vast forests
750 AD Britain source Alcuin
750 AD Germania British nun Leoba working with Boniface
750 AD Persia Islam begins its Golden Age at Baghdad, using paper from Central Asia and the influence of ancient mathematics and the knowledge of the Swahili culture, together with the manuscripts from the ancient world, no doubt taken from Alexandria and Carthage, and the knowledge from Japan that the Earth was round. Scholars poured over this knowledge synthesising all knowledge into a coherent form
750 AD Rome proscribes all ancient knowledge as heresy, plunging Europe into 600 years of ignorance, no doubt following the Edicts of Constantine in 312 AD when he banned education to prevent heresies
752 AD Britain Wessex breaks free of Mercia
754 AD Francia Frisia Boniface executed for destruction of pagan shrines and for cutting down Thor’s Oak. Boniface Christianised the pagan practice of putting presents for the children under the sacred tree at the Winter Solstice to honour and bring joy to the god Odin. It is not known when the crucifix was adopted as an official symbol, but it is worth bearing in mind that the crucifix is an object of torture, and Cicero is reported as describing it as “an abominable punishment”. It may have been at a time like this when the Roman Church was succeeding across Europe that such a drear symbol became officially adopted.
756 AD Andalusia Islam in Cordoba declared an independent Caliphate
757 AD Britain Mercian supremacy under Offa of Mercia
757 AD North Africa Algeria the Islamic Rustamid Dynasty emerges
759 AD Francia Carolingian Pippin the Younger defeats Islam in Southern Gaul and the Saxons in the North
760 AD Byzantine Empire source Nicephorus
762 AD Persia Baghdad built and Islam endures 300 years of civil war
764 AD Britain Offa of Mercia defeats Kent
768 AD Britain source Nennius
768 AD Francia Carolingian Charlemagne becomes King of the Franks
768 AD Francia Charlemagne defeats the Avars
768 AD Francia Aquintaine conquered by the Franks and renamed Gascony
770 AD Britain Offa’s Dyke built to separate Powys and Mercia
771 AD North Africa Morrocco breaks free of Islam and the Berbers set up their own dynasties
772 AD Britain Offa of Mercia defeats Sussex
772 AD Francia Charlemagne defeats the Saxons
773 AD Italy Charlemagne defeats the Lombards
776 AD Spain Charlemagne defeats Barcelona
778 AD Java the Buddhist Sailendra Culture emerges
778 AD Gaul the Basques defeat Charlemagne at Roncesvalles
778 AD Francia Charlemagne wrote a letter to Baugulf of Fulda calling for the study and compilation of ideas and manuscripts to form the Soldiers of Christ and to promote learning in the Empire. This letter was copied and sent to all monasteries
780 AD Rome bans the worship of angels again!
781 AD Francia British Alcuin travels to Charlemagne’s court and travels on to Aachen
782 AD Asia Minor unsuccessful major Islamic invasion
782 AD Ireland Vikings attack Derry
784 AD Germania Charlemagne defeats Bavaria
785 AD Spain Charlemagne conquers northern Spain
785 AD Britain Mercia mints pounds, shillings and pence for the first time
786 AD Britain Offa of Mercia defeats Wessex
787 AD Britain Offa of Mercia elevates the See of Lichfield to rival Canterbury
788 AD North Africa the Islamic Idrisid Dynasty independent in Morroco
789 AD Francia Charlemagne’s court declares marriage indissoluble and condemns divorce and concubinage
789 AD Ireland Culdees, or married monks, arrive in Scotland at Iona
789 AD Britain Offa of Mercia in contact with Charlemagne
790 AD Cambodia the Khymer Empire emerges
790 AD Britain Offa of Mercia founds St Albans
792 AD Britain Offa of Mercia marries his daughter to Northumbrian king
793 AD Scotland Vikings raid Lindisfarne
794 AD Britain Offa of Mercia defeats East Anglia
794 AD Rome grants permission for people to pray in the vernacular
796 AD Britain Offa of Mercia concludes his wars with Powys when Offa’s Dyke finished
795 AD Francia Alcuin Abbot of Tours and together with Charlemagne, they begin the Carolingian Renaissance, gathering all of knowledge of antiquity and writing down oral tales. They save all of Latin Poetry and many of the Roman writings. Aachen becomes a centre of learning and remodels handwriting across all of Europe and links all of the monasteries of Europe together. Charlemagne restores the law and united Church and State. He also unified the money standards. Many Capitularies issue from Aachen at this time, forbidding sodomy, drunkeness etc
796 AD Britain Offa dead Coenwulf king of Mercia
800 AD Europe mass migrations of peoples across Europe and North Africa at this time
800 AD Britain source Asser
800 AD Britain source Nennius
800 AD Britain Source Book of Kells
800 AD Mongolia the Mongols are stirring
800 AD Central Asia the Uyghurs are stirring
800 AD Central Asia Caucasian mummies are still being buried along the Silk Road
800 AD North Africa Islamic Aghlabid Dynasty independent in Tunisia
800 AD Rome Leo III crowns Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor, and the Byzantine Empire is very upset. So reputedly is Charlemagne!
800 AD North Africa earthquake in Alexandria
800 AD Persia roads tarmacked in Baghdad
800 AD North Africa the Trans Saharan Trade Route gets going for gold and salt
800 AD South America the Nazca Culture fades in Peru
804 AD Francia Charlemagne forces Roman Catholicism on the Saxons with mass slaughter and destruction of the Irminsul, creating the Duchy of Saxony out of Old Saxony Anglo Saxon mythology
806 AD China paper money invented
806 AD Francia Charlemagne crowns his own sons
806 AD Francia Charlemagne captures Pamplona in Spain
807 AD Wales Ceredigion Arthen dead list of kings of Ceredigion
808 AD Denmark Godfred attacks Francia and constructs the Danevirke. The Viking Age begins as a response to the emergence of a Western Holy Roman Emperor again under Charlemagne
813 AD Francia Charlemagne orders copies of the Bible in the vernacular
813 AD Francia source Einhard
814 AD Francia Charlemagne dead
816 AD Francia Louis the Pious Emperor. Louis works with Benedict to reform the Frankish Church, removing the legal bias against Jews and instigating the Rule of St Benedict, with Balthild’s moderation. The Roman Church crowns him, a move which ensures their importance at coronations for the future. Louis also makes it illegal for vassals to leave their Lords
821 AD Wales Mercia attacks Powys
822 AD Spain Islam attacks the March
825 AD Britain Wulfred gains control of all monasteries
825 AD Gaul Lothair I issues a decree on education and opens schools, discharges corrupt officials and clerics, and forces a Civil Constitution on Rome by pinning it to the gate of the Vatican, a traditional practice, and puts his own Pope Eugenius II on the Papal Throne to ensure his decrees are enacted
827 AD Sicily Islamic invasion
830 AD Central Asia the Saltov Culture emerges
830 AD Britain Viking raids in London
838 AD Britain Cornish and Viking army defeated by Egbert of Wessex
839 AD Ireland Vikings invade and destroy Dal Diada origins of kingdoms of Alba and the Vikings destroy the Picts list of Pictish kings Picts were Celtic Christians Ketil Flatnose founds the Kingdom of the Isles Viking Mythology
839 AD Britain Egbert of Wessex unified England to become the first king of all England
840 AD Ireland the Vikings begin to attack
840 AD Francia the Vikings begin to attack
840 AD Francia Civil war under Louis the German ends with the Treaty of Verdun and simony appointments made
840 AD Central Asia the Uyghur Empire fades and absorbs numerous refugees in the aftermath of the Islamic wars. There are a vast number of tribal groups moving around all the time in Asia, but when a tribal group migrates, all the others jostle about forming and reforming various cultural groupings. We can imagine this process has been occurring for millennia
843 AD Roman Church and Byzantine Church reconciled under Theodora
843 AD Andalusia Vikings attack Islam
843 AD Francia the Vikings overwinter
844 AD Francia Vikings attack Toulouse
844 AD Scotland Kenneth MacAlpine unites Scotland into a united nation
844 AD Wales Rhodri the Great unifies Wales as the King of the Britons
845 AD Ireland Viking founder of Dublin Trugesius killed as O’Neills fight back against the Viking invaders
846 AD Rome Islam loots St Peter’s Basilica
847 AD Rome Leo IV organised the fight against Islam and rebuilds St Peters. He attempts to open schools but no teachers could be found
848 AD Francia Islam attacks Marseille
849 AD Scotland Iona abandoned and many Culdees killed ?by Viking raiders
849 AD Italy Islam defeated at Naples
850 AD China sends an expedition to the Southern Ocean to try and locate the Southern Cross
850 AD Cambodia the Preah Ko temple built by the Khymer Empire
850 AD Scotland Vikings control Orkney
850 AD Russia the Rus Khaganate emerges
850 AD Java Prambanan built and the Sanjaya dynasty emerges
852 AD Italy Islam captures Bari
853 AD Britain the Vikings overwinter in Sheppey
854 AD Ireland Olaf the White Viking king of Dublin
855 AD Francia Islam attacks Arles
856 AD Wales Rhodri the Great defeats the Vikings
859 AD Francia Islam attacks Nice
859 AD North Africa the Vikings attack Morocco
860 AD Francia Islam captures the Camargue and capture the Archbisop of Arles
861 AD Persia the Saffarid Dynasty emerges
862 AD Britain Swithin dead. He is remembered by the famous weather lore proverb
864 AD Britain the Vikings overwinter in East Anglia
865 AD Britain the Viking Great Army arrives
866 AD Russia begins the conversion to Christianity under the Byzantine Church from their previous shamanism
867 AD Britain Northumbria falls to the Viking Danelaw list of Northumbrian kings Jorvik becomes an important city
869 AD Francia the Vikings raid Arles and Capture the Archbishop
869 AD Francia Islam raids in Camargue and kills Bishop Roland of Toulouse
870 AD Malta captured by Islam
870 AD Britain the Vikings capture East Anglia Viking ritual scarifice of Edmund
871 AD Britain Alfred king of Wessex
871 AD Britain source Asser
871 AD Britain the Viking Great Army overwinters in London and Linconshire
873 AD Persia the Tahirid Dynasty emerges
874 AD Iceland settled by Vikings
874 AD Britain the Viking Great Army splits under Halfdan who overwinters in Northumbria, and Guthrum who overwinters in Cambridge
875 AD Scotland Viking Thorstein the Red defeated by Constantine I of Scotland
875 AD Persia the Samanid Dynasty emerges
877 AD Scotland Constantine I killed by Halfdan
878 AD Britain Alfred the Great defeats the Vikings at the Battle of Edington and the Danelaw is enforced in Britain. Guthrum is converted to Christianity at the Treaty of Wedmore. Grimbald arrived to reform education. All freeborn boys are now entitled to education and these schools become a centre of excellence for Latin. Alfred begins the restoration the damage to the Bendictine monasteries destroyed by the Vikings. Major works are copied into English and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles are distributed to all churches. Alfred reforms the navy and the army and proclaims himself the King of England
878 AD Wales Anarawd ap Rhodri King of Wales recognises Alfred the Great in treaty and founds the House of Aberffraw
878 AD Sicily Islam conquers Syracuse
880 AD Russia the Keivan Rus emerge
880 AD Francia Aquintaine secedes
880 AD Francia Provence secedes
880 AD Francia Italy secedes
881 AD Francia the Viking Great Army arrives and causes general devastation
883 AD Italy Islam destroys Monte Cassino
885 AD Francia the Vikings attack Paris
886 AD Byzantine Empire resurges under Basil I and the start of the Macedonian Renaissance and marks a final split between the Roman Church and the Byzantine Church when Photius upholds Apostolic succession from Paul instead of Peter, and introduced the Filoque Clause and Bulgaria becomes part of the Byzantine Church Bulgarian mythology
888 AD Francia the Carolingian Empire ends and Francia breaks up into several kingdoms
890 AD Gaul Islam captures St Tropez
891 AD Francia Vikings defeated at Battle of Leuven
892 AD Britain Mercia second Viking Great Army arrive but are defeated by Alfred
893 AD Wales Vikings defeated in Powys
895 AD Hungary the Magyars arrive driven out of Central Asia by the Pechenegs
896 AD Italy the Magyars invade, possible in alliance with the Vikings and Slavs
896 AD Ireland plague and Famine
900 AD Britain source the Anglo Saxon Chronicle
900 AD Africa the Kanem Borru Empire in Chad and Nigeria has been flourishing for some time
900 AD Java the Hindu Mataram Culture emerges after a volcanic eruption covers Borobudor
900 AD North America the Vikings under Lief Ericson establish colonies in North America
900 AD Byzantine Empire employs Viking mercenaries and the Varangian Guard formed
900 AD Germania Magyars invade Bavaria
900 AD South America Peru the Sipan Culture emerges
900 AD North America the Anasazi Culture emerges
900 AD Africa The Berber Culture is very ancient and at this time, they spread out from North Africa right down into Sudan
902 AD Mediterranean Islam invades Balearic Islands, Crete, Corsica, Sardinia and Malta
905 AD Britain the Viking Cuerdale Hoard
906 AD Francia the Magyars raid in Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria Swabia
907 AD China the Tartars emerge
907 AD Britain Edward the Elder King of England raids the Danelaw
907 AD Byzantime Empire the Rus invade
909 AD Francia Cluniac monasteries appear to restore the Benedictine order
909 AD Britain Edward the Elder defeats the Vikings in Northumbria at the Battle of Tettenhall
910 AD Francia Normandy is a Viking principality under their first king Rollo who was reputedly descended from a Norwegian Jarl and was himself a Jarl of Orkney. Under treaty from Charles III of France, he became Count of Rouen, and his descendants became Dukes of Normandy.
910 AD Francia Berno founds the Abbey of Cluny under Benedictine rule
910 AD North Africa the Fatimid Dynasty emerges in the Maghreb
911 AD Francia Magyars raid in Lorraine, Orleans and Burgundy
917 AD Francia Magyars raid in Basle and Alsace
919 AD Brittany influenced or raided by Normandy
920 AD Britain Edward the Elder overlord of England and Scotland exceeding his father Alfred‘s achievements
921 AD Germania Henry I king of Bavaria list of kings of Bavaria
921 AD Ireland Muirchertach mac Neill defeats Viking raids in Ireland
924 AD Francia lots of kinglets come and go as Germania establishes herself Henry I of Bavaria Rudolph of Burgundy Charles the Simple Ralph of Burgundy Lothar of France Henry I of Germany
924 AD Francia Magyars attack Saxony, Lombardy, Provence, Pavia
925 AD Britain the Vikings continue to raid about Wales Northumbria and Mercia
927 AD Britain Aethestan King of England, son of Edward the Elder conquers Jorvik and all of England
929 AD Spain the Islamic Caliph of Cordoba builds the Great Mosque of Cordoba
930 AD Iceland source the Althing and the foundation of the Icelandic Commonwealth by Norwegian kings
931 AD Andalusia source Ibn Masarra
936 AD Germania the Ottonian Dynasty formed
936 AD Korea the Later Three Kingdoms fade and the Goryeo Culture emerges
937 AD Ireland Muirchertach mac Neill attacks on Viking Dublin
937 AD Germania Bohemia in revolt
939 AD Germania Obotrites in revolt
939 AD Britain Olaf Guthricsson of Dublin captures Jorvik and Mercia
940 AD Britain Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury
943 AD Britain Olaf Cuaran captures Jorvik
945 AD Wales Morlais dead
947 AD Britain Norwegian king Eric Bloodaxe arrives and captures Jorvik list of Viking Norwegian kings
950 AD Kiev Sviatoslav Rus prince unites a vast Empire in the Russian lands but it does not survive his death. He brought together all the local peoples in the area, the Volsungs, the Khazars, the Rus, the Norse, the Kipchaks, the Slavs and many other tribes.
950 AD Northern Europe Christianity marches across the land replacing Odin who hung on the World Tree with a spear wound in his side with Christ who hung on the World Tree with a spear wound in his side. The Norse goddess of the Dawn Ostara, who the Saxons called Eostre, was claimed by Christianity as Easter.
950 AD Wales Hywel dda king of the Britons complies the Welsh Laws and has peace treaty with Athelstan enabling him to mint his own coinage list of kings of Deheubarth
953 AD Andalusia Islamic Cordoba rivals Baghdad as a centre for learning and architecture as the Alhambra Palace and the Great Mosque demonstrate, stimulating the spread of flying buttresses across Europe as a result
953 AD Andalusia source Maimonides
955 AD Britain Eadred conquers Jorvik from the Vikings
955 AD Rome the death of John XII marks the beginning of chaos in Rome as 25 Popes and antipopes complete from 955 AD to 1057 AD list of Popes to 999
955 AD Germania the Magyars expansion into Central Europe stopped at the Battle of Lechfield by Otto I Holy Roman Emperor and the Magyars are granted Hungary to settle. Otto I also defeats the Slavs
955 AD Russia Olga of Kiev queen of the Kevian Rus converts to Byzantine Christianity and defeats the Drevlyans Olga using ship burials
955 AD Byzantine Empire source De Ceremonis
955 AD Germania the Salian Dynasty founded
959 AD Byzantine Empire Olga of Kiev visits
961 AD Germania Otto I campaigns against the Slavs
964 AD Britain Aethelwold introduced the Benedictine Rule to Winchester list of Bishops of Winchester
965 AD Britain Dunstan introduced Benedictine Rule to Malmesbury
968 AD Germania silver discovered in Harz Mountains leads to the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
970 AD Britain Feudal revolution
973 AD Francia Islam looses base at St Tropez after they capture the Bishop of Cluny
973 AD Britain Thorney Abbey founded
973 AD Britain Edgar reform of coinage and law codes
975 AD Britain source Aethelweard
976 AD Byzantine Empire Basil II new Golden Age emerges with the Alliance with Vladimir I of Kiev who converted the Rus to Byzantine Christianity and recruiting Rus soldiers into the Varangian Guard to campaign against Islam Bulgarians Khazars
980 AD Europe English kings chosen are ‘the most worthy’ Germany the kings are elected Francia kingship hereditary
980 AD Denmark Harold Bluetooth converts to Roman Catholicism
980 AD Russia the beginning of the Golden Age of Kevian Rus under Vladimir I
987 AD Francia the end of the Carolignian Dynasty list of Carolingian kings and the beginning of the Capetian Dynasty under Hugh Capet
987 AD Germania the title of Holy Roman Emperor passes to the Hohenstaufen Dynasty
988 AD Britain Viking raids in Devon
989 AD Rome the Peace of God Movement begins
990 AD Europe the peak of Medieval literature
990 AD Britain source the Exeter Book includes the Wife’s Lament
991 AD Britain Vikings attack East Anglia
992 AD Rome accuses the Jews of magical attacks on Christians
993 AD Britain Sherborne Abbey founded under the Benedictine Rule
994 AD Francia Bishop Guy of Le Puy pronounces Holy Fire
994 AD Britain constant Viking raids and payment of Danegeld
995 AD Scotland the Orkneys convert to Christianity under Olaf I of Norway
999 AD Central Asia the Kara Kharid Khanate emerges
999 AD Ireland Brian Boru captures Dublin from the Vikings

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