0000's The 1st Millennium CE Maps 0000s CE

0000s - Roman Julian & Flavian Emperors
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68-69 Four Emperors
Plutarch's Galba
Plutarch's Otho

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70 Conquest of Jerusalem
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0100s - Roman Adopted Emperors
Clickable Map of the 54 Provinces c. 120
Final destruction of Jerusalem 134
Parthian War 161-80
1st Marcomanni War 167-75
2nd Marcomanni War 178-80
Presbyter Clement of Alexandria refutes Gnosticism
180-92 Commodus
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193 Four Emperors
Severi Dynasty (193-235)
193-211 Septimius Severus

0200s - Roman Soldier Emperors

British Campaign 208-11
Many attacks by Germans and Persians.
1st millennium of Rome's existence celebrated.
1st general persecution of Christians by Decius 249-51
280-500 Jewish Talmuds compiled, oral tradition codified
Tetrarchy & Twelve Imperial Dioceses created Diocletian


0300s - Roman Christian Emperors
Christians persecuted by Diocletian 303-11
Edicts of Toleration 311 & 313
Council of Nicaea 325 rejects teachings of Arius, which are held by the majority of eastern bishops.
Arian Christianity promoted by Emperor Constantius II and by Ulfilas who converts the Goths.
Brief pagan revival under Emperor Julian 361-3
Battle of Adrianople-Arian Visigoths def. Valens 378
382 Canon of New Testament settled.
Catholic Christianity becomes state religion 391
End of Imperial Unity after Theodosius I
396-98 Alaric & Visigoths plunder Greece and Balkans

0400s  Germanic Invasions shake Western Roman Emp.



Visigoths pillage Rome 410
Roman legions withdraw from Britain 410
Vandals conquer Africa 429
Attila rules the Huns 433-453
Pope Leo I turns Attila from Rome 452
Gaiseric's Vandals sack Rome 455
Emp Leo's Navy (largest in Roman history) fails to conquer Vandals
St. Patrick converts Irish / Ethiopians converted
481-511 Clovis, king of Franks, baptized 496
476 "Fall of Rome" when barbarian general Odoacer claims Italy as his Kingdom.   Zeno prompts Arian Ostrogoths to conquer Italy under King Theodoric

0500s Eastern Roman Empire

Ostrogoths rule Italy. St Benedict founds monastery.
Byzantium generals reconquer Italy and other western Mediterranean dioceses.
Emperor Justinian I at center of temporary revival of the empire, codifies Roman Laws.
Rise of the Franks who liberate western Catholics from the Arian (heritic) overlords.   Conversion of  Spanish & Burgandian Arian Kings to Catholocism.
Angles & Saxons conquer eastern England, after being enlisted to fight the Picts (449). 
Irish academies grow, Scots migrate to Scotland.
Invasion of the Avars who drive Arian Lombards (Langobards) to conquer Italy.
St Augustine begins conversion of Saxon England

0600s   Byzantine Empire / Moslem Conquests


622 Mohammed's Hegira
Avars and Persians repelled near Constantinople 625
Mohammed begins Koran 625
Byzantines def. Persians at Nineveh 627
Heraclius recovers Jerusalem 629
628-38 Dagobert I unites Frankish kdm.
Langobards convert to Catholicism, last Arian kings.
634-44 Omar I conquers Syria, Persia & Egypt
656-61 Ali Caliph moves capital to Kufa
661-750 Omayyad Dynasty
661-80 Mo'awiya moves capital to Damascus

0700s  Omayyad / Abbasid Caliphates
705-15 Walid I, Zenith of Omayyads

732 Charles Martel def. Omayyads at Tours & Poitiers
741-75 Constantine V prohibits image worship
dissolves monastaries
755 Pope Stephen II uses forged "Donation of Constantine" to enlist Pepin's protection of Papal States.
756 Abdurrahman est. Emirate of Cordoba
750-1258 Abbasid Dynasty
754-75 al-Mansur moves capital to Baghdad
768-71 Charlemagne & Carloman rule Franks
780-802 Irene (virtual) Empress, restores image worship

0800s  Frankish Holy Roman Empire / Norman raids



800 Charlemagne crowned 1st Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III
Treaty of Verdun 843 divides France, Italy & Germany
among Charles II, Lothar I, and Louis I
Arabs sack Rome 846
Norse pirates sack Mediterranean coasts 859
Frankish / Byzantine reconquest of Sicily from the Arabs 880
871-99 Alfred the Great, king of England
876-87 Charles III the Fat re-unites Charlemagne's Empire 884-87

0900s   Norman Conquests / Saxon Holy Roman Empire



900 Alfonso III of Castile begins reconquest of Spain
911-31 Robert I (Rollo) 1st Duke of Normandy 
Treaty of St. Clair-sur-Epte est. Normandy dukedom
Normans convert to Christianity
936-73 Otto I the Great, king of Germany
marries Adelheid, obtains Italy & Burgandy 951
crushes son Liudolf's rebellion 953
crowned Holy Roman Emperor 962 by Pope John XII
End of rule of nobles in Rome 980
Russians converted to Orthodox Christianity
Czechs, Poles & Huns convert to Catholicism
987-96 King Hugh starts French Capetian dynasty
996-1026 Richard II, duke of Normandy
Civil War in Rome 996

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