1112 AD to 1301 AD

  1112 AD to 1301 AD: history timeline of happenings and doings during these years like volcanic eruptions, Normans,

 

1119 AD: Hugues(?) de Payens founded the Order of the Knights Templar in Jerusalem. 

1127 AD to 1278 AD, China:  South Song  dynasty.

1128 AD to 1143 AD: Alfonso Henriques,count of Portugal, makes Portugal independent of Spain and becomes king.

1138 AD to 1193 AD: Reign of Saladin ruler of Egypt and Syria.

1143 AD to 1180 AD: Manuel Comnenus, the greatest of the Comneni, continues the Byzantine revival. Constantinople was the acknowledged capital of the world and center of culture. 

1145 AD: Almohads of Morocco conquered Spain.

1148 AD to 1269 AD: Almohads, a Berber dynasty from the High Atlas, ruled much of North Africa and part of Spain.

 
1150 AD to 1950 AD, Ireland: Troubles and hard times continue in Ireland. I think the starred shortly after 900 AD and didn't end until about 2000 AD

~ USA: Puebloan people left the Virgin River valley area and probably moved southeastward.

~ Troubadours flourished in the south of France.

1151 AD, China: Explosives were used in warfare.

1154 AD: England: Henry II becomes king of England

1155 AD to 1294 AD: The Pomerania dynasty of the Samoborides.

 
 1155 AD to 1294 AD: Was the duration of the Pomeranian dynasty of the Samborides. The Samoborides and the Griffins held neighboring duchies. The Samborides and perhaps the Griffins were supported by the Holy Roman Empire.Sobieslaw (Subislay) probably began the dynasty and held the duchy as the duke of Herzog from 1155 to 1187. The house of Sobieslaw was important in the Baltic area and might be called Prussians. Power passed to Wartislaw (Wratislay) around 12230 and to Denmark in 1330 and to Greater Poland later.

1156 AD, Ireland: Turloc More O'Connor, a king of  Connacht, who had become High King in 1119 and who was the greatest of Brian's successors --died.

~ Ireland: Arrival of Normans at Baginbun, Co. Wexford.

1158 AD, USA: In what is now southern California, the partial infilling of ancient Lake Cahuilla brought it to sea level. The Salton Sea is a remnant of the ancient lake.

1159 AD? to 1252 AD, Spain: Life of St. Ferdinand born near Salamanca to Alfonso 9th of Leon and Berengaria of Castile. At 18 Ferdinand became king of Castile. In 1219 he married Beatrice of Swabia and had ten children. Later he married Joan of Pontian (?) and had 3 more.

1161 AD, China: At close to this date Explosives were used at the battle of Ts' ai shih.

~ to 1216 AD: Lifespan of Pope Innocent III.

1162 AD to 1227 AD: Approximate lifespan of the mongol leader Genghis Khan.
 

1166 AD to 1175 AD AD: Reign of Rory O'Connor. Last native King of Ireland.

1167 AD to 1169 AD: 800 year struggle between English and Irish began.
 
1169 AD: Dermot MacMurrough, exiled king of Leinster, invites help from "Strongbow."
 
1170 AD: Arrival in Ireland of Richard de Clare. known as Strongbow.
~ to 1970 AD, Ireland: Major political culture began at this time. There had been troubles for about 200 years before this time, but none so focused and purposeful. the English honed some horrible colonial skills during this time and practiced them to the end.

~ Ireland: This year could be called the beginning of Ireland being dominated by foreigners.
 
1171 AD: Strongbow becomes king of Leinster. England begins involvement in Ireland's affairs. Arrival of Henry II.
1171 AD: Strongbow becomes king of Leinster. England begins involvement in Ireland's affairs. Arrival of Henry II.

~ England: Henry II annexes Ireland.  

1172: England: King Henry II is declared Feudal Lord of Ireland by the Pope.

1174 AD: Conchobar of Connacht: The battle of Durlus was won by Ua Brian and by Conchobar Maenmhaighi upon the people of the son of the Empress, (the king of the Saxons). Conchobar Maenmaige is mentioned in the Annals of Ulster like this: "The battle of Durlus (gained) by Domnal Ua Brian and by Conchubur Maenmgaighi upon the people of the Empress

1182 AD to 1226 AD: Life of St. Francis of Assisi.

1185 AD to 1231 AD: Life of St. Anthony.

~ Japan: Kamakura Period flourishes.

1186 AD to 1189 AD: Ireland: During about this time Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair 
 
1186 AD to 1189 AD: Ireland: During about this time Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair was king of  Connacht. He was the son of the High King of Ireland, Ruaidri mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair. He was a military commander and resisted Norman invasion.

1187 AD: Muslims capture Jerusalem.

1189 AD to 1229 AD: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Crusades.

 
 
 1190 AD to 1202 AD: Ireland: Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobair term of reign as King of Connacht with opposition. Killed in 1202, survived by so Melaghlin, who was killed ten years later. Tough times here and most of Europe. Preceded as king by Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair and followed by Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair.

1193 AD to 1253 AD, Italy: Life of St. Clare who was born of a wealthy patrician family in Assisi. At 18 Francis(?) placed her with the Benedictine nuns at a convent near Bastia.
 

 
1200 AD: Native American Indians of the Southeast Cult were strongly in evidence, especially in the lower Mississippi valley area. A post Mound Builder culture, the Southeastern Cult in existence.

~ Leprosy outbreak in Europe.

~ Moslem invaders supplanted Hindu and Buddhist dynasties in Bengal. Later Bengal became Bangladesh.

~ Approximate peek of sunspot activity of the Medieval Maximum.

~ USA: At about this time in the Four Corners region of the southwest the land and people were hit by a combination of drought and cold.

~ Genghis Khan was supreme from the Pacific ocean to the Ural mountains.
 
1202 AD to 1224 AD: Ireland: Cathal O'Connor (Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair) Was king of Connacht. He dealt with Norman invaders (later day viking). He founded Ballintubber Abbey in 1215. Ads king he was preceded by Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobhair. and succeeded by Aedh mc Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair. This dating marks the reign of king Cathal  O'Connor a Christian. There was a Danish pagan king at this time. 

1204 AD: Genghis Khan summed as many Tartars as he could to a convocation west of the Gobi and north of the Himalayas and had his warriors kill any Tartar who stood higher than a wagon hub.

1206 AD: Genghis Khan became leader of the Mongols.

 
1213 AD to 1288 AD, Syria, Egypt: Ibn al Nafis Arab polymath whose works included medicine, surgery, Physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and Philosophy.

1214 AD to 1294 AD: Life of Kublai Khan, founder of the Mongol Dynasty.

~ to 1294 AD: Life of Roger Bacon, English mathematician.

1215 AD: King John of England seals the Magna Carta, first limitation of royal power in Europe? Magna Carta signed in England.

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1220 AD: The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. 

1222 AD: Snorri Sturluson writes Icelandic epic Prose Edda.

1223 AD: First Tartar invasion of Russia.

1224 AD to 1228 AD Ireland: Aedh mac Cathal Crobhdearg (an Englishman?) ruled as king of Connacht. 

1225 AD to 1274 AD: Life of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Surprisingly short.

~ Hungary: Teutonic Knights expelled.

1226 AD Ireland: A rebellion was raised on Connacht by sons of Ruaidri O'Conchobair and Aed O'Neil to wrest the kingship of the province from  Aed mac Carhail Crobdeirg. This was done at the instance of Donn Oc MacAirechtaig, royal chieftain of Sil Murray, who wished to revenge himself for  the confiscation of his land and patrimony; and when he revolted the whole of Connacht revolted.

1227 AD: ~ The death of Genghis Kahn. 

~ The Tatars were probably the most formidable fighting force in the world at this time. They formed a truly great light cavalry.

~ Someone begins to build Toledo Cathedral. I wonder who it/they can be.

1228 AD to 1233 AD, Ireland: Connacht was ruled by King Aedh mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair. Ireland had been weakened and disorganized by about two centuries of viking raids and was now assaulted by the English. Two sons of the king fought a sort of civil war which decimated Connacht. Richard son of William Burke arrived from England, bringing with him his appointment as Justiciar by the King; and a great assembly was convened by the Galls of Ireland and the Gaels, including the kings and chieftains of Ireland, about the two sons of Ruaidri. Unfortunately the decisions there led to ongoing civil war.

King Ruaidri was preceded by Aedh mac Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair and succeeded by Felim mac Cathal Crobderg Ua Conchobair.

1264 AD:Ireland: Walter de Burgo was made Earl of Ulster.
1266 AD: John Duns Scotus is born. He died in 1308.
1272 AD:Ireland: The English had now conquered Ulster, east of Lough Neagh, in Meath, as well as most of Connacht and of Munster.

1255 AD, Ireland: A bishop Brenden Mago was buried in Ireland.

1257 AD: Volcanic eruption of Mount Samalas.

~ Indonesia: Large eruption of Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island. This eruption may have contributed to the beginning of The Little Ice Age.

1259 AD: Volcanic eruption; probably at El chichon in  Mexico.

1260 AD to 1294 AD, France: Chartres Cathedral erected.

~ 1327 AD: Meister Eckhart, Johannes Eckhart, German preacher, mystic, theologian. 

1266 AD: John Duns Scotus was born. he died in 1308.

~ Mongolian Empire expands under Kublai Khan

1273 AD:Papacy of Clement IV.

 
1,275 AD to 1,300 AD: Massive volcanic eruptions took place during those time and contributed much to the Little Ice Age. 

~ Massive volcanic eruptions took place and lead to the Little Ice Age.

~ t0 1292 AD: Marco Polo travels through China. Explores part of China.

1276 Ad to 1299 AD, U.S.: Drought in the southwest of the country.

~ to 1300 AD, New Mexico, US: Twenty-four consecutive years of Drought in what is now New Mexico causing a depopulation of the area.

1,280 AD: Volcanism: Quilotoa in  Ecuador probably had a substantial eruption about this time. I believe that there was a low level of solar radiation. The cooling of the Earth's surface and the LIA could be due to a variety of happenings.

~ England: Heavy storms on the south coast.

~ California: Large movement of far southern end of the San Andreas fault.

1290 AD, Italy: Spectacles are invented much like those I ware.

1291 AD: Surrender of Acre, end of the Crusades.

1297 AD; Wallace's victory at Stirling Bridge.

1298 AD: Albert I, Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor of the house of Habsburg,

            

1,301 AD: north Africa: a large earthquake occurred. It rattled the polished limestone coverings from the biggest Egyptian pyramids.


1,400 AD to 1800 AD: I guess that cooling was notable and noted beginning by about 1,400 and was almost forgotten by 1,800. 
 
1,450 AD to 1850 AD: NASA defines the cold period during this time as the Little Ice Age.
                                                          

~ Ireland: End of Milesian kings.

~ Ireland: End of Milesian kings.

 

1172 AD: King Henry II of England is declared Feudal Lord of Ireland by the Pope. Hot tears to the eye.

 

 

1174 AD: Conchobar of Connacht: The battle of Durlus was won by Ua Brian and by Conchobar Maenmhaighi upon the people of the son of the Empress, (the king of the Saxons). Conchobar Maenmaige is mentioned in the Annals of Ulster like this: "The battle of Durlus (gained) by Domnal Ua Brian and by Conchubur Maenmgaighi upon the people of the Empress

1180 AD: Conchobar of Connacht at the Battle of the Connors in Hy Many.

1184 AD, hard days in Ireland: Art O Melaghlin, the King of Meath was treacherously slain by Dermot O'Brien the son of Turlough at the instigation of the English. See Ruaidri (not a sweet heart).

1185 AD, hard days in Ireland: War broke out among the contenders of Connacht as three contenders for the kingship of Connacht assailed both Ruaidri and each other. One of them was Conner's own son.

1186 AD, Ireland: hard days in the land: Both Connacians, father and son, were destroyed by their contention over the Kingship of Connacht. Ruaidri was allowed to return and land given to him. Conchobar began establishing his rule

1235 AD: Ireland: Richard de Burgo conquered Connacht. 

1237 AD to 1480 AD: Russia becomes part of the Mongol Empire.   

1238 AD to 1255 AD when he died. He was buried in an abbey of canons of St Peter, at Derg. He may be a relative of St. Erard, a native of Ireland an a Bishop of Ardagh around 700 AD

~ Arnold Villanova, Spanish physician and alchemist discovers poisonous property of carbon monoxide gas.

1240 AD: Tatars conquered Kiev.Kiev became a Tartar capital.

~ Russian leader Alexandre Nevski defeated Swedish army.

1242 AD to 1248 AD: El Said, Sultan of Morocco at Fez, lost to Mernids.

1250 AD: Atlantic ice pack began to grow.

~ to 1300 AD: Earth and  humans highly disturbed by volcanic activity.***grow.

1254 AD to 1324 AD: Marco Polo, Venetian traveler.

 

1255 AD, Ireland: a bishop Brenden Mago was buried. Brenden Mago dias followed Magodaig archdeacon. Braden Magodaic was another church active from 

1257 AD: Volcanic eruption of Mount Samalas.

~ Large volcanic eruption of Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island in Indonesia may have contributed to the Little Ice Age.

1258 AD: Ireland: Gallowglasses (mercenary soldiers) come to Ulster from Scotland.

~ Mongols sack Baghdad.

 

1275 AD:  Marco Polo entered the service of  Kublai Khan

 

 

1280 AD: Heavy storms on south coast of England.

~ to 1350 AD: Wolf minimum.

1,300 AD: Warm periods stopped being dependable in northern Europe. The growing season changed, affecting food production.

~ Massive volcanic eruptions took place and Lead to the Little Ice Age.

1,300 AD to 1700 AD: During this period Casa Grande in what is now the state of Arizona was used as a trading and religious center by the Hohokam people.
~ to 1400 AD: the Hopi were already established in the north of what is now Arizona.
~ to 1375 AD: Aztecs were established in Tenochtitlan, Mexico.
~ to 1850 AD: was a period of severe winters in North America.
~ to 1500 AD in southern California archaic Lake Cahuilla dried up and disappeared.

~ USA: Great  Anasazi migration resulted in the movement of people living in north of the San Juan River into the Rio Grand valley and the Pajarito plateau of northern New Mexico.

~ USA: Panicum sonorum/panic grass, millet, cushaw squash, tepary beans, were grown by native Americans along the lower Colorado river.

~ USA: Casa Grande of Arizona was built. It was a special use structure of Hohokam people.

~ to 1375 AD: about this time Aztecs established Tenochtitlan.

~ to  1850 AD, Northern Hemisphere: Period of severe winters

~ t0 1400 AD, USA: Homol'ovi II, Ancestral homes of the Hopi people, Homolovi I - IV, Cottonwood Creek Ruin and Clove Pass Ruin, a ;arge site of more than 1,000 rooms are located in the Arizona Homolovi Ruins State Park  5 miles from Winslow.

~ to 1500 AD, USA: Last stand of Lake Cahuilla in southern California.

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

545 AD to 734 AD

545 AD to 734 AD,  History Timeline: comets, USA, corn cultivation, volcanism, Mexico, Japan, Ireland, plague, North America, Islam, Muslim

500 AD, USA: This was the approximate end of the relatively peaceful millenia of the Early, Middle, and Late Woodland cultures and the beginning of the southern Death Cult, SDC or SCC, Southern Cult, chiefly Warfare Cult. The SCC included a large exchange network as did the woodlands perion before them.

~ Hittites conquer Mesopotamia.

~ North America: Strong evidence of corn cultivation.

~ to 900 AD, North America: Late Woodland period. 

535 AD, North America: Volcanic disruption. Great cultural changes began.

~ 562 AD, comets: The same comets may have done much damage in Ireland, England, and Bolivia.

540 AD: Around this time an important king Arthur may have lived in or around what is now England.

550 AD: and onward Irish monks re-Christianize Europe. comets, Italy.

~ Japan: Buddhism is introduced

550 AD: and onward Irish monks re-Christianize Europe.

550 AD: and onward Irish monks re-Christianize Europe.

~ Mexico: Mayans found Chichen?? Itza.

557 AD: Columcille leaves Ireland for Iona.

561, Ireland: Battle of Culdremna.

~ Comets: The same comets which seem to have do so much harm in England and Ireland seem to have done damage in Bolivia too.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in Ireland, England, and in Bolivia.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in

England, Ireland, and Bolivia.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in

England, Ireland, and Bolivia.

562 AD: The same comets may have done much damage in

England, Ireland, and Bolivia.

~ USA: Riverine tribes planted in the Colorado flood plain and crossed Algodones dunes to plant and fish on Lake Cahuilla shore.

563 AD: Columcille sails to Iona, from whence he Christianized Scotland and much of England.

565 AD: The reign of Justinian ended with bubonic plague.

570 AD: Birth of Muhammad at Mecca.

579: Lombards were in what is now Italy.

582 AD to 720 AD: About this time Idwal Roebuck was active.

590 AD: Columbanus leaves for Gaul. Columbanus was an Irish missionary to Europe.

597 AD: Columcille dies. His name and reputation was greatest in the Irish church. He had a great reputation as a missionary.

604 AD: Japan gets its first written constitution. Which country got theirs earlier??

614 AD to 680 AD: Life of Saint Hilda. Born in 610? to a noble family in Anglo -     England. Hilda was the daughter of Herrick? who was the nephew of St. Edwin, the exiled king of Northumbria. Around 647 Hilda was made abbess of the double monastery at Harthepost?

618 AD to 707 AD, China: The tang dynasty was fruitful.

623 AD: From the first of this year people of Islam took steps to becoming a political state.

 

633 AD: Islam was becoming a military force.

 

655 AD: Islam is now a naval power.

630 AD: Xuan Zang, Buddhist monk and traveler visited Samarkand in present Uzbekistan. 

~ Chinese controlled a large part of central Asia. 

632 AD: Death of  Mohamad. 

635 AD: Aidan founds Lindisfarne.

639 AD: Muslim armies conquered the southern territories of the Byzantine empire (Syria, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Jordan.

645 AD: Return of Yuan Chuang(Huen Tsiang)to China.

655 AD: Islam is now a naval power.

650 AD to 900 AD: Mexico: Xochicalco had an interesting an active society in what is now Morelia. It may be the most densely constructed site in Mesoamerica. From about 800 AD it was a rival and successor to Teotihuacan. It contained and interesting celestial observatory which was probably constructed around 700 AD.

660 AD to 690 AD, Ireland: Plague years

664 AD: Pestilence in England.

660 AD to 802 A D, Ireland: ? Perhaps 40 years of greatly damaging occurrences in Ireland which traumatized the culture?

672 AD, England: Pestilence.

682 AD- 720 AD, Ireland: Idwal Roebuck lived.

683 AD, England: Pestilence.

694 AD to 701 AD, Ireland: Laingsech, Langseth, Oengusso lived.

~ Ireland: Viking attack on Lambay Island of Dublin.

~ North America: Hopewell culture responsible for significant earthworks

698 AD: Willibrord(?) of Ulrecht(?) discovers Heligoland island

 

 

700 AD: It has been estimated that by this time 1% of the world population is Muslim. 

~ to 1700 AD, North America: Mississippi Tradition (Bahn) 

~ to 800 AD: Irish monastic culture at its height.

~ to 795 AD:  Full-scale Viking invasion of Ireland.

~ to 1,200 AD, USA: "Pueblo" stone dwellings along rivers and high up canyon walls. These "Pueblo" were called Anasazi by the Navajo.

~ to 1500 AD, USA: Cahokia a large settlement along the Mississippi River with a population of perhaps 20,000 persons. They left large earthen mounds. They farmed corn. There homes seemed to have been partially subterranean thatched row houses around open plazas.

~ Ireland: It seems that much Irish history was being collected in munster about this time

710 AD to 711 AD, Spain: Moors invade.