A Timeline for Early Medieval Europe AD 909 - 1002
This timerline is based on Roger Collins' Chronology in his book "Early Medieval Europe 300-1000"
British Isles | Western Europe | Eastern Europe | North Africa | Near East |
909 Wessex armies harry Viking kingdom of York |
911 Charles the Simple's treaty with Rollo; Carolingian dynasty in E. Francia extinct |
912-59 Reign of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos |
909 Aghlabids overthrown by Fatimids |
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918 Death of Æthelflaed; Wessex annexes western Mercia |
912-61 Rule of 'Abd ar-Rahman III in Spain |
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920 Wessex conquest of East Mercia |
917-24 Bulgar attacks on Byzantium |
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924-39 Reign of Athelstan |
923 Deposition of Charles the Simple |
920-44 Romanos Lecapenos co-emperor |
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937 Battle of Brunanburh |
936 Restoration of Carolingian rule in France with Louis IV (d. 954) |
927 Death of Tsar Symeon of the Bulgars; peace made with Byzantium |
945 Buyids take Baghdad; 'Abbasid Caliphs under Buyid control until 1055 |
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948 Eadric of Wessex harries Northumbria |
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942-50 Hywel Dda 'King of all Wales' |
955 Battle on the Lech |
957 Visit of Olga to Constantinople |
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960 Hugh Capet 'Duke of the Franks' |
c. 962-71 Rule of Svyatoslav in Kiev |
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961-88 Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury |
962 Imperial coronation of Otto I |
963-9 Reign of Nicephorus Phocas |
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972 Otto (II) marries Byzantine princess |
969 Byzantium regains Antioch |
969 Fatimids take Cairo |
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973 Coronation of Edgar at Bath |
973-83 Reign of Otto II |
969-76 Reign of John Zimiskes |
972 Zirid kingdom in Tunisia |
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970 Defeat of 'Rhos' invasion of Thrace |
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975-8 Reigh of Edward the Martyr |
982 Otto II defeated in southern Italy |
980-1025 Reign of Basil the Bulgar-slayer |
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978-1016 Reign of Æthelred the Unready |
978 Vladimir becomes ruler of Kiev |
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980 Viking raids on souther England |
987 End of Carolingian rule in France; Hugh Capet crowned |
c. 987 Conversion of Vladimir |
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991 Battle of Maldon |
994 Otto III attains his majority |
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990s Mounting Viking attacks |
995-1000Olaf Tryggvason King of Norway |
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1000 Conversion of Iceland |
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1002 Death of Otto III |
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