Archeurope: Early Medieval Archaeology

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
918 Death of Æthelflaed; Wessex annexes western Mercia	912-61 Rule of 'Abd ar-Rahman III in Spain
920 Wessex conquest of East Mercia		917-24 Bulgar attacks on Byzantium
924-39 Reign of Athelstan	923 Deposition of Charles the Simple	920-44 Romanos Lecapenos co-emperor
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
948 Eadric of Wessex harries Northumbria
942-50 Hywel Dda 'King of all Wales'	955 Battle on the Lech	957 Visit of Olga to Constantinople
	960 Hugh Capet 'Duke of the Franks'	c. 962-71 Rule of Svyatoslav in Kiev
961-88 Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury	962 Imperial coronation of Otto I	963-9 Reign of Nicephorus Phocas
	972 Otto (II) marries Byzantine princess	969 Byzantium regains Antioch	969 Fatimids take Cairo
973 Coronation of Edgar at Bath	973-83 Reign of Otto II	969-76 Reign of John Zimiskes	972 Zirid kingdom in Tunisia
		970 Defeat of 'Rhos' invasion of Thrace
975-8 Reigh of Edward the Martyr	982 Otto II defeated in southern Italy	980-1025 Reign of Basil the Bulgar-slayer
978-1016 Reign of Æthelred the Unready		978 Vladimir becomes ruler of Kiev
980 Viking raids on souther England	987 End of Carolingian rule in France; Hugh Capet crowned	c. 987 Conversion of Vladimir
991 Battle of Maldon	994 Otto III attains his majority
990s Mounting Viking attacks	995-1000Olaf Tryggvason King of Norway
	1000 Conversion of Iceland
	1002 Death of Otto III

 

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