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(1194) for £400,000.
First Doge of Genoa appointed.
425
Administration of Etius begins, lasting
678 Cadwallader, the last king of the Britons,
Ethelred flees to Normandy.
Richard defeats Saladin.
1340 Birth of Gerhard Groot; died 1880.
1339
about thirty years.
The Traveler's Song published.
Bulgarians occupy Bulgaria, in Northern
reigns.
1013
Malcolm II. King of Scotland.
1198
Greece.
1014
Sweyn conquers England.
bly defeated by Alphonso XI., of Cas-
Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople,
1199
Innocent III. Pope.
Battle of Tarifa in Spain; Moors terri-
428
681 Mebrouin, last of the Merovingians, as-
Battle of Zetunium; Basil II. of Con-
John becomes King of England, May 27.
banished (485).
1200
University of Salamanca founded.
1346 Rattle of Crecy; French, under Philip,
tile.
429
The Vandals under Genseric invade Af-
sassinated.
1202
Fourth Crusade; capture of Zora.
Death of Theodore, Bishop of Mopsues-
rica.
685 Saxons drive Britons into Wales and
1015
stantinople defeats the Bulgarians.
1203
Cornwall.
1016
Vladimir I. dies; Russia is divided.
routed by the English, under Edward
Ethelred dies; Edmund Ironsides and
Constantinople besieged and captured by
120
the Crusaders.
III., and the Black Prince.
Battle of Durban, in Scotland.
tia.
687 Sussex united to Wessex.
Canute divide England.
Italy invaded by Northmen.
Normandy lost to England.
Battle of Neville's Cross.
432
431 Third General Council held at Ephesus.
1207
1347 The English take Calais.
433
St. Patrick arrives in Ireland.
At ila King of the Huns.
694
In France, Pepin defeats Thierry.
Latins possess and divide Greece.
Kent devastated by West Saxons.
Albigensian Crusade.
Theodosian code published.
697
Anafesto becomes the first Doge of Ven-
1017
Expulsion of Saracens.
Canute, the Dane, becomes King of all
1208
Otho crowned Emperor of Germany at
Rienzi, last of the Tribunes, establishes
a democracy in Rome.
438
439
The Vandals surprise Carthage.
709
The Saracens invited into Spain to over-
ice.
1019
England.
The Moors enter Spain.
Rome.
England interdicted by the Pope.
1348
University of Prague founded.
440
Leo I. (the Great) Bishop of Rome.
throw King Roderick.
1026
Sancho II. of Navarre founds the King-
1209
711 The Saracens cross from Africa to Spain.
French Crusade against the Albegeoise.
1349
Dauphiny annexed to France.
dom of Castile.
1210
Inquisition established.
The black death in England.
442
Treaty of peace between Valentinian and
Genseric.
War between Venice and Genoa.
1350
The Bulgarians ravage the Eastern Em-
Arragon becomes a Kingdom under Ram-
Order of the Garter instituted by Ed-
1035
Attila in Thrace and Macedonia.
1352
ward and John II., King of France.
446 Messages of the Britons to Etius for aid
against the Saxons.
712 The Gothic Kingdom of Spain overthrown
pire.
by the Arabs.
1037
Union of Leon and Austria with Castile.
trez I.
1213
Battle of Muret; defeat of Albigenses.
Marino Faliero at Venice.
Turks enter Greece.
1039
Duncan I. of Scotland murdered by Mac-
1214
Interdict of England removed.
Alexander II. of Scotland.
1353
1354
Theodosius concludes a treaty with At-
French defeat Germans at Bouvines.
Rienzi slain at Rome.
447
Attila ravages the Eastern Empire.
Establishment of the Saracen kingdom
of Cordova ..
beth.
Magna Charta signed at Runnymede,
1356 Battle of Poitiers, September 19; 8,000
1040
Sicily restored and Servia lost to the
1215
English defeat 60,000 French;
Eastern Empire.
June 15; confirmed and renewed 30
Black Prince takes John II. captive to
the
449 The Robber-Council of Ephesus.
țila ..
714
Charles Martel, mayor of the palace and
Landing of the English in Britain,
Hengist and Horsa in Kent.
716
real ruler of France.
times.
London, where he dies.
Independent Gothic Monarchy founded in
The Cid (Ruy Diaz) in Spain.
1041
Death of Theodosius II.
the Asturias.
1042
Danes driven from Scotland.
The Saxony Dynasty restored. Edward,
Birth of Roger Bacon (died 1292).
1216
Henry III. becomes King of England,
Charles IV., of Germany, signs the
450
451 Invasion of Gaul by Attila."
Leon and Asturias formed into a King-
October 28.
Golden Bull, the basis of the German
718
dom by Pelays, who checks the con-
the Confessor, King of England.
Conquest of Bohemia by Henry III.
Russians defeated before Constantinople.
1217
Fifth Crusade by Germans and Hun.
Constitution until 1806.
garians.
1358 Insurrection of the Jacquerie in France.
Victory of Etius at Chalons.
Fourth General Council held at Chalce-
quests of the Saracens in Spain.
720 The Saracens are defeated at Constanti-
1043
1051
Rebellion of Godfrey in Kent.
1052 War of Roderigo, the Cid, with the
1220
1300
1222
Frederick II. becomes Emperor of Italy.
Peace of Bretigny, between English and
Matthew Paris born.
French.
don.
nople.
The Teutonic Knights undertake the con-
1361
Italy overrun by the Free Lances.
Monophysite controversy begins.
Charles Martel created Duke of France.
Moors.
Turks enter Greece.
452 .Invasion of Italy by Attila.
quest of Poland.
1242
The English language ordered to be used
Venice founded.
The Saracens invade France.
453 Death of Attila.
Dissolution of his em-
730 Pope Gregory excommunicates the Em-
1058
Moors expelled from Italy.
Macbeth defeated and slain.
Malcolm III. of Scotland.
1223
Tartars conquer a large par . of Russia.
in legal proceedings, England.
peror Leo.
pire.
732
Battle of Tours, or Poitiers; crushing de-
1060 Philip I., the Fair, King of France.
1224
Louis VIII. King of France.
Louis frees his serfs.
1363
Austria acquires the Tyrol.
1364
454
St. Patrick fixes his see at Armagh.
Lambert of Herzfeld.
1226
St. Louis becomes King Louis IX. of
Charles V. (the Wise) King of France.
feat of the Saracens by the Franks.
Philip, the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
455
Sack of Rome by Genseric.
739 Charles Martel conquers Provence.
1065 Jerusalem captured by the Turks.
1066 William of Normandy invades England,
1227
France.
Gregory IX. Pope.
1366
Treaty between Austria and Bohemia.
746
Slavic settlements 'in Grecian Pelopon-
H. Van Eyck, painter, born.
457
Intercession of Leo.
Hengist founds the Kingdom of Kent.
nesus.
and wins the battle of Hastings.
1228
Sixth Crusade; Frederick II. at, Acre.
460 The epic poem of Beowulf (?).
Harold defeats the Norwegians, and is
1229
The Inquisition begun.
1367
The Mamelukes conquer Armenia.
1869 Empire of Tamerlane founded.
461-'67 Rule of Ricimer.
747
Carloman of France abdicates.
Pepin, the Short, son of Charles Martel,
1229
Ten years' truce with the Sultan.
Severus nominal Emperor
752
crowned King of England, January 6.
Langland's "Piers Plowman."
1370 Pope Gregory XI. goes to Avignon.
462-'72 Conquests of the Visigoths in Spain
and. Gaul. ..
754
becomes King of France.
Pepin gives Ravenna to the Pope.
Death of Harold.
Insurrection in Mercia, Britain.
William I., the Norman, crowned King,
Jerusalem restored to the Christia.Is.
Frederick crowned King of Jerusalem.
1371
Stuart line begins with Robert IL of
465
Great fire at Constantinople.
755
Scotland.
470 . Birth of Boethius (died 526).
Abderahman I. becomes King of Cordova.
December 25.
1070 The feudal system introduced in Eng-
1231
Albigenses defeated in France.
University of Cambridge founded.
1374
1232
Fall of Hubert de Burgh.
Death of Petrarch.
Rebellion against the Pope.
475 Romulus Augustulus Emperor of the
756 Pepin annexes Ravenna to the See of
1375
West (banished 476).
1071 Norman Kingdom of the two Sicilies.
Wars between Castile and Moors, and
Death of Boccaccio.
760
Rome.
land.
1233
capture of Cordova, Seville, Toledo, and
1377
Richard II. King of England, June 22.
476 Odoacer captures and sacks Rome and
becomes King of Italy.
768
Insurrection of Toledo.
Death of Pepin, who is succeeded by his
Hereward in the Isle of Ely.
1073 Hildebrand made Pope Gregory VII.
Papacy restored to Rome.
two sons, Charlemagne and Carloman,
Gregory VII. establishes universal sov-
other cities by Ferdinand III.
1235 The Mongolians invade. Russia.
1236 War between the Emperor and the Lom-
1380
Battle of the Don; Dimitri II., of Rus-
Succession of Western Emperors ends.
ereignty of the papacy, and reforms
sia, defeats the Tartars.
Close of the period of Ancient History.
who rule in France and Germany.
771 Charlemagne rules alone.
1237
bard League.
Wyckliffe's translation of the Bible pub-
772-'85 Charlemagne, after a severe struggle,
abuses in the Church.
Henry VI. of Germany disputes his title.
The Grand Duke Juric (Russia) slain in
lished.
conquers the Saxons; they embrace
1075
Moorish Kingdom of Grenada founded.
Thomas A. Kempis born.
Christianity.
1076
Odericus Vitalis.
Russia wars with the Tartars.
774 Charlemagne annexes Italy after con-
quering the Lombards.
1077
Justice of the Peace appointed.
battle.
Henry IV. submits and does penance.
1238
by Mohammed I.
1239 Seventh Crusade, by Thibaud, Count of
1381
Charles VI., King of France.
Watt Tyler's insurrection in London
778 Battle of Roncesvalles.
1081 Italy invaded by the Germans.
1084 Henry IV. takes Rome.
The Pope flies to Salerno and dies there,
crushed.
1241
Champagne.
Beginning of the age of chivalry.
Charlemagne . unsuccessfully invades
1242
Prose Edda.
Tartars establish the empire of Kahn of
Ghiberti, artist, born; died 1455.
1382
"Legend of Good Women," England.
Medieval History
785
Saxons, subdued by Charlemagne, be-
Spain.
in 1085.
1244
Kaptschak.
1383
The Tartars burn Moscow.
1086
Clement III. made Pope by Henry IV.
Domesday Book completed in England;
Jerusalem seized by the Carismians.
Danes invade Russia, and are defeated by
1385
Death of John Wyckliffe.
come Christians.
John of Ghaunt in Spain.
787 The Danes land in England.
commenced in 1077.
1886
791-'96 Charlemagne establishes the Margra-
1087
Burno founds Carthusians.
.William II. crowned King of England.
Alexander Newski.
1246 The Hanseatic League formed.
Battle of Lempach; defeat of the Aus-
476 Establishment of. the Kingdom of the
viate of Austria.
1088
Urban II. Pope.
1246 Frederick II. of Austria killed in battle
trians by the Swiss, and death of Duke
Leopold.
477
Franks ... .
Second Saxon Invasion of Britain.
Reign of Alfonso, the Chaste, in Spain;
1090
The Saracens of Spain invite the African
with the Hungarians.
480 Birth of St. Benedict (died 543). .
independence of Christians established.
1091
Mantua taken by Henry IV.
1250
Louis defeats King Henry of England.
1387 German Empire divided.
481 Clovis I. (Merovingian) reigns in Belgie
Louis captured by the Saracens; truce
1388
Fra Angelico, painter, born; died 1448.
799 The Avars subdued by Charlemagne.
Battle of Chevy Chase, or Otterburne,.
Gaul.
800
Charlemagne crowned at Rome; be-
Moors to their aid in driving back the
Christians.
for ten years.
Mamelukes rule Egypt.
1389
between Scots and English.
485. Proclus, philosophier, diea.
The Moors defeat the Christians and seize
486
Battle of Soissons.
comes Emperor of the West by Pope
Leo III.
1251
Margaret of Norway.
the Saracen possessions.
Portugal becomes a separate principality
1252
Rise of Medica family in Italy,
Alexander Newski is made Grand Duke
1390
The Eastern Empire loses power in Asia.
Clovius I. defeats the Gauls.
802 Ruric, the Norman, establishes the first
Robert III. King of Scotland.
Ostrogoths invade Italy,
regular government in Russia, at Nov-
1095
under Henry of Besancon.
of Russia, and reigns as Alexander I.
The Canterbury Tales published.
491 Ella founds the Kingdom of Sussex.
489
1254 Ottocar of Bohemia acquires the Aus-
493 Theodoric establishes the Ostrogothic
807
gorod, and becomes grand duke.
War between Slaves and Polyponnesian
1096
William of Malmesbury.
First Crusade begun.
1259
trian Provinces.
J. Van Fyck, painter, born.
Kingdom of Italy, South Germany and
Verse Edda compiled (?).
Kubla Kahn builds Pekin.
1392
The Portuguese discover the Cape of
Greeks.
Good Hope.
Hungary, capital at Ravenna.
814
Louis I., Emperor, dethroned, but re-
1098
War between France and England.
Ottocar wars with Hungary (+
1262-'68 Barons' War in Englan
1260
Styria.
1395
Tamerlane, the Tartar, invades Russia.
495 Third Saxon invasion of Britain.
817
stored to his dominions.
1099
Death of the Cid.
The Wakefield and Towneley mysteries.
Cerdic founds the Kingdom of Wessex.
Louis, the German (France), conquers
Jerusalem captured by Godfrey de Bouil-
1263 Ottocar inherits Corinthia
496
Clovis of France embraces Christianity.
Austria.
lon.
1265
The first regular Parliam. . of England
1396
Battle of Nicopolis, the Turks, under Ba-
jazet I., defeat the Hungarian Chris-
501
820
Michael II. of the Byzantine Empire
1100
Henry I. crowned King of England.
meets.
Persecution of the Wycklifites or Lol-
tians.
502
Laws of Burgundy published.
Charbades, the Persian, ravages the
founds the Armorian dynasty.
Birth of Dante; died 134 ;..
1397
Greek Empire.
823
In England, Essex (and, two years later,
Kent and Northumbria) are annexed to
laws.
Grants a charter restoring the Saxon
1266
Naples and Sicily conquered by Charles
503 Fergus lands in Scotland from Ireland.
of Anjou.
lards.
1104 Crusaders capture Acre.
Union of Calmar.
506-'42 The famous King Arthur said to reign
Wessex.
The Servians occupy Dalmatia.
1106
Milan becomes a free republic.
1268
1399
Henry IV. crowned King of England.
in England.
825
The Saxon Heptarchy ends and Egbert,
Henry I. defeats his brother Robert, and
Ninth Crusade, by Louis IX. and Ed-
ward, Prince of Wales.
Sept. 30th; Order of the Bath founded.
507 Clovis, having conquered the country
827
Louis IX. dies at Carthage.
1400 Birth of Della Robbia, architect and
from the Pyrenees to the Loire, founds
king of Wessex, becomes king of all
gains Normandy.
1270
sculptor.
the Kingdom of all Franks.
1108
1107 Alexander I. Scotland.
Louis VI. le gros (the Lusty) King of
Philip III. (the Hardy) King of France.
England.
510 Clovis makes Paris the capital of the
830 Louis the Debonair imprisoned in France.
France.
1272
1271 The English quit Palestine.
of Edward
I. of England;
Death of Chaucer and Froissart.
Reign
crowned Nov. 20.
1401 Rebellion in Wales; Glendower And the
Franks.
839-'40 Louis
separates
Germany from
1110
Henry V. of Germany invades Italy.
511 Salle Law established by Clovis' in
1114
Ottocar declines the Imperial Crown of
'1402
Percies defeated
Henry V. marries Matilda of England.
Battle of Angora; Timour the Tartar de-
France.
840 Charles the Bald King of France.
France.
Germany.
feats the Turks and captures Bajazet I.
Division of the monarchy between Clovis'
841
German princes assert their independ-
1116 University of Bologna founded.
Euclid translated into English.
1273 Randolph, Count of Hapsburg, chosen
Prince James of Scotland captured.
four sons.
Emperor of Germany; Ottocar refuses
Masaccio, painter, born.
1119
Play of St. Catherine at Dunstable.
1405
614 Vitalianus, the Goth, besieges Constanti-
844
Treaty of Verdun; the sons of Louis di-
ence.
Rise of the Lombard (Italy) cities.
to acknowledge him.
vide the empire.
1120
Shipwreck of Prince William.
1122 Treaty of Worms, between the Emperor
1274 Navarre passes to the royal family cf
1406
Albany, regent, in Scotland,
1407
nuple.
France.
France interdicted by the Pope.
519 Cerdic founds the Kingdom of Wessex
Spain ravaged by the Northmen.
Rudolph makes war upon Ottocar, and
1409
Council of Pisa. Alexander V. made
in Britain ..
846
The Saracens sack Rome.
and Pope.
Pope by council of Pisa.
527
Justinian I. becomes Emperor of Rome.
848
850
Brittany becomes independent.
Russian monarchy established by Ruric.
1124 David I. King of Scotland.
gains Austria, Corinthia and Styria.
Fourth Saxon invasion of Britain. Essex
Victories
1410 Sigismund of Hungary becomes Emperor
founded.
850(?) Scots and Picts united under Kenneth.
1125 Era of the glory of Venice."
1275
Wars of Robert Bruce and John Baliol
of Germany.
over the Eastern Empire.
for the crown of Scotland.
1411
University of St. Andrews founded.
529
Justinian Code published.
851 Northmen pillage France.
1132
Arnold of Brescia.
1976
House of Hapsburg, of Austria, founded.
Battle of Harlaw; the Lowland defeat
534
Belisarius conquers Africa.
865
Russians attack Constantinople.
Bassillian Dynasty founded at Constanti-
1135
Stephen becomes
King of England.
1277
Rule of the Visconti, Milan.
the Highland Scots.
538 The Franks appear in Italy.
867
Henry's daughter, Maud, disputes the
1278
Italy made subject to Belisarius. Gotkes
nople.
crown; Civil war ensues.
1282
Ottocar slain at the battle of Marchfeld.
Sicilian Vespers, massacre of Sicilians
1412
Birth of Fra Filippo Lippi, painter.
by the French.
1413
Henry V. crowned, March 21, King of
539
ravage Milan.
869
Ecumenical Council of Constantinople.
(Latin Church.)
Loui VI. grants letters of franchise to
544 Birth of Gregory of Tours (died 590).
citie .. and towns.
Crusade against Aragon; the French ex-
1414 Council of Constance; Pope John XXIII.
England.
871 The Danes defeat Alfred at battle of Mer-
3 Empress Maud's partisans defeated at
pelled.
deposed.
545 The Turks enter Asia.
547
Northumbria founded in Britain.
ton.
the battle of the Standard, Aug. 22.
1283
Wales subjected to England.
Sigismund, King of Bohemia, Emperor of
550 The Angles form the Heptarchy Anglia,
873
Kingdom of Navarre founded by Sancho
115) Portugal becomes a kingdom.
1285
Philip IV. (the Fair) King of France.
Kenigsberg made the capital of Prussia.
Germany.
Deira Mercia, etc.
Maud lands in England, and defeats Ste-
1286
1415. Battle of Agincourt; 10,000 English, un-
552 Totila, the Ostrogoth, defeated in Italy
875
Charles, the Bald, becomes Emperor; is
Iuigo.
3, 1141.
1287 Jews banished from England.
der Henry V., defeat 50,000 French.
by the imperial generals Narses and
poisoned by Zedechias, a Jewish physi-
phen; is crowned at Winchester, March
1288
Nicholas IV. Pope.
Belisarius.
875-1154 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
cian.
1143
1144
Moors rebel in Spain.
1289 Second invasion of the Mongols.
John Huss and Jerome of Prague burned
at the stake. betrayed by Sigismund.
The partisans of Huss take up arms;
558
554 Narses overthrows Gothic power in Italy.
Alphonso of Leon defeats the Moors.
1291
Mamelukes take Acre.
1416
Clotaire sole ruler in France.
877 Louis II. King of France.
Alfred the Great driven from England.
Wars of the Lombard cities.
1296
Christian power in Syria destroyed.
878
Scotland subdued by England.
1417
a severe war ensues.
560 Fergus Moor II. of Scotland (?).
Ecumenical Council of Constantinople.
1146 Second Crusade; Louis VII. of France
and Conrad III. of Germany are de-
Sir William Wallace fights for the inde-
Cobham burnt.
Death of Clotaire. His four sons divide
879
1297
561
pendence of Scotland.
1419
The Hussites take Prague.
the kingdom between them.
562 St. Colomba lands in Scotland.
881
(Grek Church.)
Danes iavage Scotland.
feated by Greek treachery, A. D. 1148.
1420
Paris attacked by Northmen.
1147
Greece plundered by Roger of Sicily.
Maud is defeated by Stephen, and retires
1299
Revolt of Scotland.
Paris captured by the English; Treaty
of Troyes; Henry wins the French
563 Constantinople destroyed by fire.
888
Battle of Falkirk; Bruce and Douglas
564 History of Gildas (?).
Italy subjected to the Eastern Empire.
defeated by Edward I.
crown; birth of John Wessel.
890
565
Death of Justinian I. Ethelbert becomes
Alfred of England founds Oxford, and
to France.
Arthurian Legends published.
Osman I. establishes the Turkish Em-
1422
Henry VI. proclaimed King of France
establishes a code of laws; organizes
1150
pire.
and England.
King of Kent.
militia and a navy; subdivides the
1152
Frederic Barbarossa made Emperor of
Germany.
1300
Moscow becomes the capital of Russia.
Ottoman Empire reunited by Amurath II.
568 Italy invaded by the Longobardi from
Germany, who found the Kingdom of
country and causes surveys of the King-
1301
Lombardy. Narses governor of Italy.
dom.
1153
Maud concludes a peace with Stephen.
Philip IV. quarrels with the Pope.
Malcolm IV. King of Scotland.
Charles of Valois in Italy.
1423
James I. reigns in Scotland.
First convocation of States-General in
1425
War between Milan and Venice.
805
The Paston Letters.
Henry II., King of England, the first
Joan of Arc raises siege of Orleans, de-
577
570 Birth of Mohammed (died 632).
Alfred's translations.
Battle of Durham; West-Saxons defeat
896
The Germans, under Arnold, seize Rome.
1164 Frederic Barbarossa invades Italy.
1302
France.
1429
the Britons.
Alfred of England vanquishes the Danes.
Plantagenet, crowned December 19.
1303
Edward I. invades Scotland.
feats the English at Patay, and drives
581 Paris mostly destroyed by fire.
901
Death of Alfred the Great.
1305
William Wallace executed.
them from all their conquests in
Sclavonians ravage Thrace.
904
Russia invades Greek Empire under
Adrian IV. Pope.
1306
Robert Bruce crowned as King of Scot-
Franks invade Italy and are repelled.
Oleg.
Constitutions of Clarendon enacted in
France except Calais.
Charles VIII. King of France.
584
land.
The Mayors of the palace the real rul-
907
The Russians receive tribute from Con-
England.
1307
Edward II. crowned, July 8, King of
1430
Henry VI. crowned at Paris, in Decem-
ers in France. .
stantinople.
1156 Margraviate, Austria, made a hereditary
duchy by Frederic I.
England.
Amurath II. conquers Macedonia.
ber.
586
Kingdom of Mercia founded in Britain.
910 Asser's life of Alfred written.
911 Death of Louis the Child, last of the
German Carolingians.
War of Guelphs and Ghibellines.
1307-'14 Philip suppresses the Knights Temp-
587 Franks expelled from Spain by Recared I.
1161
1162 Barbarossa destroys Milan.
lar, and burns the Grand Master at
Humphrey Duke of Gloucester.
590 Gregory I., the Great, becomes Pope.
595 The Lombards besiege Rome and overrun
912 Rollo the Northman becomes Robert,
1163 Berlin founded by a colony from the
Paris.
The Medici at Florence.
1431
Joan of Arc burned at Rouen.
Italy.
Duke of Normandy.
918-'34 Henry I. the Fowler, reigns in Ger-
Netherlands.
Dape Clement V. removes to Avignon, in
'rance.
1433
Lisbon the capital of Portugal.
597
St. Augustine arrives in England.
many; conquers the Huns, Danes, Van-
1166 Assizes of Clarendon and Northamy
1165
William the Lion, King of Scotland
"t I., of Austria, attempts to sub-
Council of Basle.
In. the Swiss, who have revolted un-
Birth of Thomas Malory.
598
Ethelbert, King of Kent, embraces Chris-
tianity.
dals, and Bohemians.
1167
Frederic Barbarossa takes R-
der William Tell. (?)
1435 Treaty of Arras, between France and
608
Italy ravaged by Sclavonians.
921 Italy invaded by the Burgundians.
înat
928 Five Emperors rule the Byzantine Em-
The Lombard League form
Emperor.
1310 Henry VII. subdues the Lombards.
309
The Swiss revolt successful.
Burgundy.
603
Scots invade Bernicia; are driven back.
Sicily and Naples united.
611
The Persians make conquests in Syria,
pire
1169 University of Paris founded.
1313 Louis V. and Frederick of Austria con-
End of Hussite wars.
Egypt, and Asia Minor, and besiege
ages Scotland.
1170 Thomas a Becket murdered in England
December 29.
tend for the German Empire.
War of Turks with Venice.
Rome.
many defeats the Danes.
Birth of Boccaccio; died 1375.
1436 Invention of Printing by Guttenberg.
Copyright, 1905, by Geo. A. Ogle & Co.
SUPPLEMENT XIII.
ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY.
1487 James I., of Scotland, murdered.
: 1509 Henry VIII. King of England; he mar-
A. D.
A. D.
A. D
1616 The present Tsing Dynasty in China es-
James II. becomes King.
Albert V., Duke of Austria, obtains Bo-
ries Catherine of Aragon.
Great Tartar invasion of Russia repelled
De Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
1676 Birth of Burton; died 1640.
Venice stripped of its Italian possessions.
1542 Catherine Howard executed.
Birth of Fletcher; died 1625.
tablished by Mantchou Tartars.
Death of Cervantes and Shakespeare.
hemia and Hungary, and is made Em-
1510 Russia again invaded by Tartars.
peror of Germany.
1579 League of Utrecht.
Harvey discovers circulation of blood.
Execution of Dudley and Empson.
Henry VIII. takes the title of King of
1577 Birth of Rubens, painter; . died 1626.
Ireland.
Northern provinces of Holland declare
1617
Ladislaus, of Poland, marches on Mos-
1438
University of Florence founded.
The Pragmatic Sanction; Albert V., of
1511
Ojedo founds San Sebastian.
Pope Julius II. forms the Holy League
Roberval's expedition to the St. Law-
their independence.
cow.
Austria, becomes Emperor of Ger-
rence.
Fitzgerald's Irish rebellion suppressed.
1618
Finland ceded to Sweden.
with Ferdinand and Venice.
The thirty years' war begins in Bohemia,
1439
many.
Council of Florence.'
Velasquez subdues Cuba.
1543 Ivan IV., the Terrible, reigns, at the age
of fourteen.
Sir Francis Drake lands in the Moluccas.
between the Protestants, under the
Title of Emperor limited to the Aus-
1512 Selim I. made King of Turkey by Janis-
saries.
Henry VIII. marries Catherine Parr.
1580
Alva, of Spain, conquers Portugal; the
Death of Copernicus; born 1473.
giance.
united provinces renounce their alle-
Elector Palatine, and the Catholic Ba-
varian League.
Battle of Vasag; Turks routed by Hun-
Ponce de Leon discovers the Florida
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