Dates Pt. 11; Early Middle Ages

Question 1

Early Middle Ages

Answer 1

476-800

Question 2

Clovis assumes kingship of the Franks

Answer 2

AD 481

Question 3

Gelasius I elected pope (two swords theory).

Answer 3

AD 492

Question 4

Theodoric the Great wins imperial recognition as king of Italy.

Answer 4

AD 497

Question 5

Clovis is baptized.

Answer 5

AD 498

Question 6

Clovis kills the Visigothic king Alaric II at the B. of Vouille and seizes Aquitaine, dissolution of Theodoric’s system of alliances, and of his hegemony over the western barbarians.

Answer 6

AD 507

Question 7

Council of Orleans. Clovis dies. Theodoric the Great becomes regent of the Visigoths until his death.

Answer 7

AD 511

Question 8

Boethius dies.

Answer 8

AD 524

Question 9

Theodoric the Great dies.

Answer 9

AD 526

Question 10

Justinian becomes Emperor.

Answer 10

AD 527

Question 11

Nike riots.

Answer 11

AD 532

Question 12

Belisarius invades Vandal N. Africa. It falls within a year.

Answer 12

AD 533

Question 13

Franks destroy and absorb the kingdom of Burgundy.

Answer 13

AD 534

Question 14

The Gothic War begins.

Answer 14

AD 535

Question 15

Belisarius besieged at Rome by the Gothic king Vitiges. Hagia Sophia consecrated.

Answer 15

AD 537

Question 16

Belisarius captures Ravenna, is recalled.

Answer 16

AD 540

Question 17

Justinianic plague breaks out.

Answer 17

AD 541

Question 18

Benedict of Nursia dies.

Answer 18

AD 542

Question 19

Approximate date for the death of Dionysius Exiguus, the creator of Incarnational dating.

Answer 19

AD 544

Question 20

Longobards given Pannonia in treaty with Empire.

Answer 20

AD 547

Question 21

Gothic War concludes with Byzantine victory.

Answer 21

AD 554

Question 22

Justinian dies.

Answer 22

AD 565

Question 23

Longobards defeat Gepids, begin trek into Italy in the next year.

Answer 23

AD 567

Question 24

Franks invade Longobard controlled Po Valley.

Answer 24

AD 584

Question 25

Gregory the Great elected pope.

Answer 25

AD 590

Question 26

Last great Romano-Persian war begins.

Answer 26

AD 603

Question 27

Gregory the Great dies.

Answer 27

AD 604

Question 28

Muhammad receives the first sura.

Answer 28

AD 610

Question 29

Khusrau II advances to Chalcedon and negotiates a surrender with the Senate.

Answer 29

AD 615

Question 30

Lombards no longer clients to the Franks.

Answer 30

AD 617

Question 31

Persians take Alexandria.

Answer 31

AD 619

Question 32

The Avar Surprise, an unexpected Avar siege of Constantinople, fails. Pippin the Elder becomes Mayor of the Palace in Francia.

Answer 32

AD 623

Question 33

Joint Avar-Persian assault on Constantinople fails.

Answer 33

AD 626

Question 34

Heraclius restores Roman power in Eastern Mediteranean. Khusrau II is killed in palace coup.

Answer 34

AD 628

Question 35

Muhammad returns to Mecca.

Answer 35

AD 630

Question 36

Muhammad dies.

Answer 36

AD 632

Question 37

Muslims take Syria, Abu Bakr, the first Caliph, dies.

Answer 37

AD 634

Question 38

Muslims defeat the Romans at the B. of Yarmuk.

Answer 38

AD 635

Question 39

First Muslim invasion of Persia is turned back at the B. of the Bridge.

Answer 39

AD 637

Question 40

Muslim forces rally, and defeat the Persians at the B. of Qadisiyya.

Answer 40

AD 638

Question 41

Dagobert, the last king of the Franks to wield real power, dies. Neustria and Austrasia split.

Answer 41

AD 639

Question 42

Arnulf, bishop of Metz and the other legendary founder of Pippinid line, dies. Pippin the elder dies.

Answer 42

AD 640

Question 43

Muslim conquest of Egypt.

Answer 43

AD 641

Question 44

Umar, the second Caliph, dies.

Answer 44

AD 644

Question 45

Approximate date for beginning of theme system in Byzantium.

Answer 45

AD 645

Question 46

Yazdgerd III, the last King of Kings, is killed.

Answer 46

AD 651