Dates quiz Flashcards
Founding of Byzantium by Byzas
650 BC
Nervon Persecution
64 AD
Fall of Jerusalem
70 AD
Pax Romana Ends
180 AD
Diocletianic Persecution
303-305 AD
Battle of Milvian Bridge
312 AD
Edict of Milan
313 AD
Council of Nicaea
325 AD
Byzantium becomes Nova Roma
330 AD
Invasion of the Huns in Eastern Europe
379 AD
Edict of Thessalonica
380 AD
Sack of Rome by the Goths
410 AD
Invasion of North Africa by the Vandals
429 AD
Council of Chalcedon
451 AD
Sack of Rome by the Vandals
455 AD
Fall of Rome to Odovacar
476 AD
Clovis becomes “King of the Franks”
507 AD
King Albion of the Lombards invades Italy
570 AD
Gregory the Great becomes Pope
590 AD
The Hijra
622 AD
Death of Muhammad
632 AD
Umayyad African Muslims cross the Strait of Gibraltar
711 AD
The Reconquista
718(-1492) AD
The Battle of Tours
732 AD
Dorset Raid - Danes
789 AD
Lindisfarne Raid - Danes
793 AD
Charlemagne is crowned “Emperor of the Romans”
800 AD
The Treaty of Verdun
843 AD
Raid on Paris - Danes
845 AD
Norwegian Discovery of Iceland
874 AD
Battle of Ethandune/Danelaw
878 AD
Eric the Red Discovers Greenland
Approximate date of the Christianization of Scandinavia
1000 AD
Founding of the Abbey of Cluny
910 AD
Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
1009 AD
Leif Ericson Discovers Vinland
1020 AD
The Great Schism
1054 AD
The Battle of Hastings
1066 AD
The First Crusade is Called
1095 AD
The Battle of Manzikert
1071 AD
The Peasant’s Crusade
1096 AD
The Capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders
1099 AD
The Second Crusade (Louis VII)
1147-1149 AD
Murder of Thomas Becket
1170 AD
Treaty of Wallingford/Founding of the Angevin Empire
1153 AD
The Third Crusade
1189-1192 AD
The Crusades End
1272 AD