923 AD to 1112 AD

 923 AD to 1112 AD: solar activity, China, comets, Ireland, acupuncture, volcanic eruption,

925 AD to 1225 AD, USA: Pueblos I and II ages at Chimney Rock of Chacoan culture. Construction episodes at these two site corresponded with the last two lunar stand-stills of the century, 1075 and 1014.

930 AD, Spain: Islamic Cordoba became the seat of Arab learning.

931 AD to 999 AD: Life-Span of Saint Adelaide. Adelaide was the daughter of king Rudolf II  of Burgundy. She was married to Lothair who became king of Italy. Lothair was poisoned to death by Berengarius, the Marquis of Ivrea.

935 AD: About this time there was a long solar eclipse.

940 AD, Ireland: Brian Boru was born so of a leader of one of the royal free tribes of Munster.

945 AD to 1004 AD: Life-span of St. Ablo. He studied grammar astronomy, mattmatics, philosophy, and Music. Joined the Benedictine monastery at Fleury-sur-Loire. Directed a school in Ramsey, England.

 

 946 AD to 947 AD: Volcanic eruption at Baeckdu Mountain, Baikal Rift Zone, China and North Korea. One of the largest eruption in about 2000 years.

~ Volcanic eruption of Paektu mountain.

950 AD to 1040/1250 AD: Medieval Warm Period in Europe. It maybe warmer now that it was then.`

~ to 1040 AD: Medieval maximum.

~ USA: Cahokia, large Indian village in southern Illinois.

~ al-Farabi died ca this year. In his theoretical writings he mentioned the Arabic musical meter called "saraband." Spanish ''Zarabanda.'' It may be ta túm ,  ta túm,  ta túm;  fan

956 AD to 1015 AD: Vladimir I, Grand Prince of Kiev

980 AD to 983 AD: Erik the Red discovered Greenland. 

982 AD: Erik the Red founded south Greenland colony

985 AD: Vikings sailed to North America.

976 AD, Spain: Great Mosque of Cordoba is built.

~ to 1014 AD, Ireland: Brian Boru Succeeded his brother Mahon(!) as king of Munster.

995 AD to 1,000 AD, Norway: Reign of King Olaf Ist.

999 AD: notable comets.

~ Ireland: Brian Boru defeated Vikings. 

1,000 AD: Marked a beginning of truly uneasy times in Ireland.

~ Leif discovered Vinland.

~ Comets notable, acupuncture,

~ Europe: Beowulf and the Song of Roland were recorded in writing..

~ Period of abrupt warming of much of Earth.

~ to 1400 AD, Between Springerville and St Johns near Lyman Lake, USA: Raven site ruins at surface level 3 kivas and and two morterized rooms. Found was White Mountain redware and later Zuni glazeware.

~ to 1,400 AD, Norway: Earl Erik Hakonarson ruled  at the time of Leif Erikson.

1002 AD, Ireland: Brian Boru wins recognition of all Ireland.

c. 1010 AD: Vikings end visit to Vineland.

1012 AD to 1067 AD: China: Was the life span of Ts'ai in China. During that time he wrote his treatise on tea Ch'alu. 

 

1014 AD, Ireland: Brian Boru defeated Norsemen at Clontarf, but is murdered. Was Cearbhal, Lord of Ely important on the side of Brian Boru in the battle?

~ Ireland: At Clontarf on the Friday before Easter was a battle near Dublin  Brian son of Kennedy, monarch of Ireland, was slain  (who was the Augustus of all the west of Europe?)

~ to 1054 AD, Kievan Russia: With Yaroslav the Wise Kievan Russia attains a peak of cultural and political development

 

1022 AD: Supernova.

 1027 AD, China: The Sung dynasty Emperor Jen Tsung ordered Wang Wei, a noted acupuncturist and sculpture, to cast two hollow bronze figures with all acupuncture points marked by their names and small holes. The figures were covered with wax and filled with water. They were used to train and test students.

~ Avicenna: While discussing the origin of mountains in his book, The Book of Healing, he proposed one of the principles underlying geological time scales, the law of superposition of strata. The layer on top was more often the youngest.

1030 AD: Avicenna, Muslim philosopher writes Canon of Medicine. 

~ to 1070 AD: Chaco Canyon building, roads, irrigation, Removal of most of local forest. (Pochteca) 

1031 AD to 1095 AD: Shen Kuo, the Chinese naturalist recognized the concept of "deep time," perhaps the idea that the lifetime of Earth may go back to a time, not much noted at his time, the idea that Earth history may go back millions of years.

1033 AD: Great Pilgrimage from Europe to Europe.

 1040 AD to 1080 AD: Solar: Oort Minimum.

1054 AD: The Patriarch of Constantinople and the Pope in Roe excommunicated one another, causing the Great Schism between the Byzantine and Latin churches.

~ USA: Anasazi record, pictographically, the supernova explosion. It was a production of the Crab Nebula which was visible by day three weeks. It was visible by night for two years. 

~ China: The great star in the constellation Taurus recorded by Chinese astronomers, a super nova that left the Crab Nebula as debris.

1055  AD to 1083 AD, USA: Hight of Chacoan culture in northern New Mexico

1062 AD to 1148 AD: Almoravids flourished in the southwestern Shara. They were a Berber dynasty ruling in Morocco and part of Spain.

1065 AD to 1275 AD, USA: Elden Pueblo inhabited near what is now Flagstaff, Aridzona

1066 AD: Halley's comet appeared frightening Europeans on the eve of the Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror defeated the English forces under king Harold. William declared himself king bringing about the Norman Conquest of England. William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy takes the English crown.

~ The Earth was warmer then it is now.

~ England: Normans defeated Saxsons.

1076 AD, North America: A total solar eclipse was visible south of Chaco Canyon.

1077 AD, China: Sunspots large enough to be seen with the unaided eye were reported, beginning a more than 200 year period of unusual sunspot activity.

1079 AD to 1142 AD, France: Peter Abelard, French theologian and philosopher, condemned by the Synod of Soissons for his teaching on the Trinity, "Historia Calamitaturum"(?) and the description of his love affair with Heloise. Counsel of sens condemns heresies of Abelard. Did Abelard develop the process of questioning which leads to "truth:" Nothing is to be believed until it is understood.

1086 AD, Ireland: The end of Turlough O'Brian's time as Ard Ri (High King). Turlough was Brian Boru's grandson.

1095 AD: First Crusade,

1097 AD, July 11th? A total eclipse passed over what is now the US Southwest?

1100 AD to 1250 AD: Solar: Medieval Maximum.

 

 

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734 AD to 923 AD

  734 AD to 923 AD: philosophy, Islam, Holy Roman Empire, archaeology, China

736 AD, Spain: Saint Isidro died, In his life-time he was an important proponent of Andalusian music.

750 AD to 1258 AD: The emergence of Islam may be said to have led to a sort of world civilization. The Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad acted as a commercial and intellectual bridge that transcended regional barriers from China to Europe. There also emerged a sophisticated maritime civilization extending from the Gulf to Southeast Asia, India, and East Africa.

795 AD, Ireland: Full-scale Viking Invasion of the Island

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800 AD: Archaeology: Hopewell culture responsible for significant earthworks in North America.

~ to about 1,800 AD: The duration of the influence of the Holy Roman Empire beginning with a Frankish people among the nobility of whom a sort of Latin was spoken. Many were the ancestors of German speakers of today. 

~ China: A classic writing on tea including its pleasures may be Ch'aching by Lu Yu was being read,

~ Christians well established in Ireland.

~ to 1500 AD, North America: Native Mississippi culture in North America.

~ Khazars adopted a kind of Judaism.

~ USA, Nevada: Puebloan people of the Warn spring virgin River area raised corn and cotton, mined salt, and turquoise. They also gambled with bone dice.

~ Charlemagne, king of the Franks, is crowned "Emperor of the West" by Pope Leo III in Rome.

~ to 814 AD:   Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor.

~ Ireland: Viking attack on Lambay Island of Dublin.

~ North America: Considered tp be in the period of a flourishing of the Hopewell tradition along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

~ By this time there were Christian Irish in Iceland.

807 AD: Irish sail to Iceland.

810 (?) AD to 877 AD: John Scotus Erigena, Irish born theologian and philosopher was in Paris for part of this period. His works include De Divina Praedestinatione; translation of Dionysius the Areopagite into Latin published in 858; Encyclopedia of Nature published in 870.

~ to 813 AD: Michael I  Rangabe, Byzantine Emperor.

815 AD to 877 AD:  Was the life-span of Eriugena Johannes Scotus, Erigena Johannes Scottus. He was born in Ireland and moved to France in about 845. He was a theologian, a Neoplatonist philosopher, and a poet. He is appreciated for his translation of and comments on the work of the Pseudo Dionysus. 

~ 876 AD: Jain. Rashtrakuta King Amoghavarsha.

 

 

820 AD to 875 AD, Ireland: Rhodri ap Merfyn lived.

~ by this year Norwegians had occupied Scotland.

~ After this year Ireland was successfully occupied by Norwegians.

828 AD t0 836 AD, Morocco: Mohammed I, Sultan at Feg.

840 AD, Ireland: Norwegians had founded Dublin by this time.

850 AD, Ireland: The Irish were driving Vikings back.

862 AD: Russia (proto): The people of Novgorod invite the Varangians, warrior merchants from Scandinavia led by Rurik, to set up an orderly government. Start of Rurik dynasty.

865 AD: Constantinople: Russian Vikings attack.

867 AD, Byzantia, Basil 1st becomes emperor and establishes the Macedonian dynasty; until 1025 Byzantine emperors were, at least, part Armenian

871 AD, Ireland: Ewgon died about this year.

874 AD, Iceland: Vikings settle in the Iceland.

782 AD: Alcuin took over direction of Charlemagne's Palatine school.

789 AD to 987 AD: Idrisid's: Frist Moroccan dynasty. El Canto de Mia Cid? El Cid?

890 AD to 899 AD: Caliphs and the powerful elite of  the Islamic Albasit court in Baghdad began commissioning translation of a major portion of ancient Greek texts into Arabic.

900 AD, Ireland: Merfyn ap Rhodri, Aberffar, prince of Ewyned died.(Wales?)

~ to 1500 AD, North America: The duration of a new culture in the greater Mississippi drainage area recognized and traced by archaeologists. In important ways it seems a lesser culture than the one preceding it. It has been called the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.

~ to about 1700 AD, North America: some professionals are calling this the duration of the Late Prehistory Period. Others have suggested 900 AD to 1250, 1350, 1550 as the SSC period.

~ Mayas move from the lowlands of Mexico to the Yucatan peninsula.

~ Arabs introduce opium to China

908 AD, Ireland: Eoganachta were defeated when when they tried to subject Leinster to Cashel rule.Their king, Cormac MacCullenan was killed.

914 AD, Ireland: Vikings established settlements in Waterford.

916 AD, Africa: Al-Masudi, the Arab scholar traveled from the Gulf down the African coast as far as Mozambique.

~ Ireland: Vikings establish settlements at Dublin.

920 AD, Ireland: Vikings establish settlements at Limerick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

167 AD to 356 AD

 167 AD to 356 AD: History timeline of a different sort. It includes happenings and doings in: Europe and the Americas.

181 AD to 203 AD: Life of Saint Perpetua. converted to Christianity in 203. 

185 AD to 254 AD: Life span of Origen, Greek father of the church.

190 AD to 265 AD: Life of Hua To, Chinese physician invented an anesthetic for surgery using a hallucinogenic tea.                                                196 AD to 265 AD: Life of St. Dionysius who became Bishop of Roman Alexandria in 247 AD. In 251 251 Decius decreed Christians must worship Roman gods, Dionisius escapes to Libia.

 

200 AD to 1500 AD: The Mogollon lived at this time in what is now the US southwest and Mexico north west. They differed from the Hohokam and ancestral Pueblo. They had nicely ground stone tools and developed ceramics. They cultivated plants. They built pit houses. their earlier pit house were circular and some nearly subterranean. 

~ Ireland: Cormac McArt  was High King in Limerick. Limerick was already ancient by this date.

~ Good written documentation of doings and happenings was being kept in Ireland by this time. This writing has been accepted by excellent historians as excellent documentation dates from this time.

~ Beginning of  of High Kingship at Tara (Co Meath, Ireland)

200 AD: Writings done in Ireland from this time has been accepted as excellent documentation and dates for the doings and happenings of within a couple of hundred years of this time.

~ Ireland: Beginnings of High kingship at Tara, Co Meath..

~  to 800 AD: "the Classic Maya   period."

~ By this time Romans were making glass bottles and windows.

~ 200 AD: By this time certain swedes were already writing in runic script.

      
 

215 AD to 276 AD: The approximate life span of Mani, the founder of the Manichean religion in Mesopotamia.

~ 217 AD, US Southwest: Basket making is well established.

220 AD to 180 AD: Duration of the 2nd Punic war.

222 AD, China: Three Kingdom period.

 232 AD, New Zealand: Taupo volcano, Hatepe erupted on the North Island. Now lake Taupo.

250 AD: The Cyprian Plague arrived in Carthage.

~ Diophantus of Alexandria introduced algebra. to whom?

~ Ireland: Strong influence of La Tien Iron Age people.

251 AD  t0 356 AD (?)" Life of Saint Anthony. He was born of wealthy Christian  parents in upper Egypt. He went to a mountain in the Arabian desert and stayed for two years. He walked to Alexandria to support Christian martyrs there.

265 AD to 420 AD: China's Jin Dynasty flourishes.

268 AD: Goths, a people which have been called a barbaria tribe, plundered, Greek states.

275 to 335 AD: Life of, Bahasa, an Indian Sanscrit playwrite. Perhaps named after one of the very earliest Sanscrit writer of about 100 BC.  Or, the same, but redated to the earlier time. Perhaps theEnglish tried to lessen a colomial people by making about 400 years younger.             

285 AD: Roman Empire splits into Western and Eastern empires.

ca 300 AD: Marked the rise of Buddhism in China.

300 AD: Hopewell Tradition reaches its greatest extension in N.A. Influence from the tradition was probably felt from what is now Canada to what is now Cuba. It was also felt west to the Rockies and east nearly to the Atlantic.

~ By this time Romans were calling people in Ireland, Scoti.

300 AD to 400 AD, China: Chines recorded particularly abundant sunspot activity. It was associated with increased warmth. A modern guess was that the increased average Earth temperature was about one degree. Naked-eye sunspots were abundant to Chinese observations.

300 AD to 400 AD, Central America: Mayan civilization flourish.

~ to 320 AD: Armenians adopted Christianity as their state religion

~ San Gorgonio or St. Gorgonius is celebrated in the East 0n March 12 th and in the west on September 9th. He was martyred at Nicomedia along with St. Chrodegan, bishop of Metz and Lactanius Eusebius of Caesarea at the time of Emperor Diocletian of Rome.  San Gorgonio much later became the name of the highest mountain in Southern California.

~ at about this time bowling became part of the religious ritual in German monasteries.

~ Arnobius was an early Christian apologist.

~ Ireland: Greeks reached the island again.

312 AD, Rome: Constantine converts to Christianity and becomes emperor.

313 AD: Edict of Milan legalizes Christianity.

320 AD, India: Gupta empire emerges.

~ 520 AD: Is said to be a Golden Age of Hindu civilization.

322 AD to 287 AD: The life span of St Monica.

324 AD to 337 AD: Reign of emperor Constantine.

330 AD: Constantine the first dedicates the city of Constantinople, established on the site of the Greek city Byzantium, as the new capital of the Roman empire. So, Constantinople is named the capital of the Roman empire.

337 AD: St. Julius, Pope.

~ to 476 AD: Decline and fall of the Roman Empire

 

340 AD to 570 AD: "The Migration Period" called the Barbarian Invasion of Europe. There was a movement of new people from the east and north east into Europe. We have called the newcomers: Franks, Goths, Alemanne,  Alan, Huns, Slavs, and Avars.

~ 397 AD: Life span of Saint Ambrose. He was educated in Rome and became a successful lawyer and was appointed governor of Milan. Milan and Church became divided over Church doctrine. Ambrose was elected bishop of Milan and was subsequently baptized.

 

350 AD: Christianity was well established in much of Ireland by this time.

~ to 730 AD: Grand Anse beach on Grenada was a port for receiving unworked amethyst crystals from South America. The crystals were made into beads on this same island. Pearls were a part of these dealings. 

352 AD: Pope Liberius,

354 AD: to 430 AD: Life of  Saint Augustine. When Augustine he went o Carthage to study law. By 375 he was running schools of rhetoric and grammar.In 383 he went to rome to teach rhetoric and Monica, his mother, followed