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LATE ANTIQUITY and the EARLY MIDDLE AGES Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus (traditional date of the fall of Rome and start All free people within the empire declared Roman citizens: 212 of the Early Middle Ages): 476 Castellan of Melun besieged by the king of France: 991 Council of Nicaea: 325 Massacre at Thessalonica: 390 Treaty of Verdun: 843 “Year of the four emperors”: 69 Battle of the Milvian Bridge: 312 Battle of Adrianople: 378 Charlemagne crowned Roman emperor: 800 Emergence of the Peace of God City of Rome sacked by the Visigoths: 410 movement: ca. 1000 Pantheon (present version) built: ca. 126 “Franco-papal alliance” sealed: 751 AD 500 AD 1000 Principate: 31 BC–ca. AD 284 Dominate: 284–476 Early Middle Ages: ca. 500–1000
Late Antiquity: ca. 200–750
Rule of Augustus Height of Third-Century Crisis: ca. 235–284 Carolingian Empire: ca. 800–850 (Republic ends and empire begins): Rule of “Five Good Emperors”: Umayyads 661–750 Disintegration of Carolingian Empire: ca. 850–1000 31 BC–AD 14 Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Romulus Augustulus: 475–476 ?feudal society?: ca. 850–1000 Jesus: 4 BC–AD 30 Marcus Aurelius: 96–180 Saint Benedict: ca. 480–ca. 547 Ali: caliph 656–661 Diocletian: 284–305 Caligula: 37–41 Fredegund: died 597 Caracalla: 211–217 Constantine: 306–337 Clovis: 481–511 Saint Paul: d. ca. 64 Tertullian: ca.160–c. 220 Cassiodorus: ca. 490–ca. 580 Pepin the Short: 751–768 Jerome: ca. 342–420 Blandina: d. ca. 178 Theodoric the Ostrogoth: 493–526 Bishop Irenaeus: ca. 130–202 Augustine: 354–430 Charlemagne: king of the Franks, 768–814; emperor, 800–814 Justinian: 527–565 Charles Martel: ca. 688–741 Commodus: 180–192 Valens: 364–378 Montanus: fl. 2nd c. Septimius Severus: 193–211 Brunhild: ca. 533–613 Louis the Pious: 814–840 Prisca: fl. 2nd c. Alaric: ca. 370–410 Decius: 249–251 Chilperic I: 561–584 Maximillia: fl. 2nd c. Saint Antony: ca. 251–356 Theodosius: 379–395 Mohammed: 570–632 Arius: ca. 260–336 Gregory of Tours: ca. 539–594 Merobaudes: died 387 Gregory the Great: 590–604 Agilulf of the Lombards: 590–615
Berengar of Narbonne complains about Archbishop Wifred before church council: ca. 1059–1060
Abbot of Nonantola makes promises to his tenants: 1050
Constantinople conquered by the Ottoman Turks: 1453
AD 1000 AD 1500 AD 2000 Late Middle Ages: Early Modern West: High Middle Ages: ca. 1000–1300 ca. 1300–1500 ca. 1500–1789
Renaissance: ca. 1300–1550 Ibn Sina: 980–1037 Ibn Rushd Averroes: 1126–1198 Edward Gibbon: 1737–1794 2013-07-22 4:51 PM