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1 435-453 Attila, King of the Huns, establishes a steppe empire in the Carpathian Basin and leads major raids into the Balkan provinces, Gaul and Italy |
2 1131–1157 Danish civil wars |
3 527-565 East Roman (Byzantine) emperor Justinian I |
4 948 Bishoprics established in Denmark |
5 1152 Nidaros (Trondheim) becomes archbishopric for Norway, Iceland, Faroes, Greenland |
6 768 – 814 Charlemagne King of the Franks, King of Italy (f. 774), Holy Roman Emperor (f. 800), |
7 626 Failed siege of Constantinople ends Avar raids; successful rebellion of Slavs in Bohemia/Moravia under Samo |
8 680s Khan Asparuch founds a Bulgar khanate in the NE Balkan Peninsula |
9 955 August 10th, second battle of Lechfeld, King Otto has a decisive victory against the Hungarians. |
11 c. 1000 Iceland, Hungary and Poland Christianised |
12 800 (25th of December) Charlemagne crowned emperor by pope Leo III in Rome |
13 463 First mention of central Asian Avars in Byzantine sources in connection with westward migration of Sabirs, Ogurs, Saragurs, and Onogurs |
14 535-554 Gothic war in Italy, Byzantines destroy Ostrogothic kingdom |
15 793 Viking raid on the monastery of Lindisfarne |
16 1130–1177 Norwegian civil wars |
17 623-638 Dagobert I., king of the Franks; Frankish power begins to decline |
18 869 – ca. 885 Methodius leads the mission in Pannonia and meets fierce resistance at the hand of the Bavarian bishops, foremost archbishop Adalwin of Salzburg. |
19 c. 900 Hungarian realm established in the Carpathian Basin; beginning of raids in Italy and the Frankish kingdoms, Bavarian defeat at Bratislava (?, 907) |
20 567 Decisive victory of the Lombards under Alboin against the Gepids in the Carpathian Basin |
21 379-395 Emperor Theodosius I. overcomes his rival, but bloody battles for the throne become endemic and weaken defenses against ‘barbarians’ |
22 284-305 Reign of Emperor Diocletian |
23 476 Deposition of the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus by the officer Odoacer |
24 489-493 Ostrogoths under Theoderic conquer Italy |
25 754 – 768 Pepin (or Pippin) the Younger, first Carolingian King of the Franks (751) |
26 714–741 Charles Martel, Frankish mayor of the palace, begins new cycle of Frankish expansion |
27 439 The fall of Carthago seals the Vandal conquest of Africa, Rome’s richest province |
28 814-840 Louis the Pious emperor and King of the Franks, Carolingian power begins to decline |
29 711 Visigothic defeat against Muslim invaders and establishment of Muslim al-Andalus |
30 440s Burgundian kingdom in SW-Gaul; Angles and Saxons expand in Britain |
31 843 Treaty of Verdun marks the division of the Frankish empire into three parts (Lothar I, Louis “the German”, Charles II “the Bald”) |
32 454 After Attila’s death, his empire collapses, and Goths, Gepids and other peoples control the Carpathian Basin |
33 378 Goths revolt and rout emperor Valens and his army in the Battle of Adrianople |
34 306-337 Reign of Emperor Constantine I |
35 375 Huns arrive north of the Black Sea and crush the Goths, many of whom cross the Lower Danube into the empire |
36 983 Revolt of pagan Slavs in the Elbe region against Saxon dominance |
37 482-511 King Clovis I establishes a Frankish kingdom in Gaul, pushes Visigoths into Spain |
38 406 A mixed group of Vandals, Alans, and Suebi cross the Rhine and plunder in Gaul and Spain |
39 410 Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome |
40 1126–1152 Missionary work of Vizelin among the northern Elbe Slavs |
41 610-641 Emperor Heraclius; victory against Persia after a long war (628) |
42 791-796 Charlemagne’s armies subdue Avar khaganate meeting little resistance |
43 799–803 Avar uprising against the Franks ultimately fails; Franks organise lands between Enns and Raba rivers and control Slavic groups in the rest of Pannonia |
44 407 The usurper Constantine III withdraws the Roman troops from Britain, where direct imperial control ends. |
45 630/35 Bulgar Empire north of the Black Sea under Khan Kuvrat expands against Avars and Turks |
46 559-561 A group of Avars under Khagan Baian advances north of the Black Sea and defeats Sabirs, Utigurs, and Antes |
47 670 Khazars defeat Bulgars and establish new steppe empire north of the Caucasus |
48 995–1028 Christianisation of Norway by Olav Tryggvason and Olav Haraldsson |
49 826 Beginning of Ansgar’s missionary career in Scandinavia |
50 845 Sack of Paris and destruction of Hamburg by viking raiders |
51 1164 Uppsala becomes archbishopric for Sweden |

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