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.