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600 Eadbald, King of Kent, founds a minster church for 22 monks in the ‘castrum’ of Dover – either the Roman fort in the town or the hillfort on the headland, A Mayan farming village, Joya de Cerén in El Salvador, is buried rapidly under ash from the eruption...
(Feature Photo: Hagia Sophia mosaic of the wedding in Cana; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 580 RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Pelagius II Bishop of Rome 588 RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Pelagius II Bishop of Rome Theodolinda, the daughter of Duke (or King) Garibald I of Bavaria (Germanic), marries the Lomabard (Italian) king, Authari,...
(Feature Photo: Inistioge St. Columbkille's Well in Ireland; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 550 Sometime in the sixth century an ivory diptych is made (an object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by a hinge, ancient world notebooks used these to protect the wax writing inside when...
(Feature Photo: A mosaic inside the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople [modern-day Istanbul in Turkey], the Virgin Mary is in the middle holding the Christ Child, to the right is emperor Justinian I, offering her a model of the Hagia Sophia, and on the left is emperor Constantine I, offering her...
Before you get started! You may want to familiarize yourself with some words, so here's your... Handy Dandy Cheat-sheet! These names are used interchangeably... "Frankish" means "Germanic" (the Franks were a Germanic people group that occupied Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity) "Gaul" means the area of modern-day France "France" comes from...
(Feature Photo: Roman Ruins inside of the courtyard of a the Byzantine Church of Saint Catherine in Plaka; Credit: George Koronaios, Wikimedia Commons) 480 RULERS & ROYALTY: – Childeric I (first Merovingian king) is king of the Salian Franks – Zeno is the Eastern Roman Emperor – Simplicius is the 47th pope/bishop of...
(Feature Photo: Illustration of the murder of Attila the Hun after his wedding ceremony in 453; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 450 RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I, king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France), dies, and is succeeded by Thorismund – Valentinian III is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Theodosius II, emperor...
(Feature Photo: Ruins of the Fortress of Anavarza, it was the principle settlement of Cilicia Secunda during the reign of Theodisuis II; Credit: Sarah Murray, Wikimedia Commons) 430 RULERS & ROYALTY: Theodoric I is king of the Visigoths (modern-day southwestern France) – Theodosius II is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Valentinian III is emperor of the...
400 RULERS & ROYALTY: Alaric I is the first king of the Visigoths – Arcadius is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire – Honorius is emperor of the Western Roman Empire – Anastasius I is the 39th pope/bishop of Rome Orthodox Judaism is developed between 400 to 500 AD The Visigoths are moving west through...
(Feature Photo: Painting of St. Jerome translating the Bible into the Latin Vulgate in the 380's by the artist Caravaggio in the year 1606; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 380 Pelagius (a Celtic Christian who will go on to write a treatise on Free Will and be accused of heresy...
(Feature Photo: Interior of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul; Credit: Maksym Kozlenko, Wikimedia Commons) 350 RULERS & ROYALTY: Constans I dies, leaving Constantius II as Roman Emperor January, Constans, one of the rulers of the Roman Empire, dies The Gaulish (modern-day France) poet Ausonius (d. 395) is writing a set...
(Feature Photo: Arch of Constantine in Rome to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312, the arch was dedicated in 315) 330 RULERS & ROYALTY: Constantine "The Great" is the sole ruler of the Roman Empire / Sylvester I is the 33rd Pope/Bishop of Rome...
300 RULERS & ROYALTY: Diocletian and Maximian are co-Emperors of the Roman Empire – Marcellinus is the 29th pope/bishop of Rome – The Lakhmid Dynasty begins ruling in present-day Iraq and present-day eastern Saudi Arabia – The Ghassanids rule present-day Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia 301 RULERS & ROYALTY: Diocletian and Maximian are co-Emperors of...
Intro Intro Paragraph Music (Feature Photo: A section of Roman Emperor Diocletian's palace at Palmyra; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 280 The future Roman Emperor Constantine "The Great" is born (or at least some time around this year); He will reign between 306-337) Eusebius (early Christian historian) turns 15 Perspective: Jesus...
(Feature Photo: An illustration of St. Eusebius in the T'oros Roslin Gospel Manuscript in Armenia dated 1262) 250 It is calculated that no less than 30,000 Christians are living in Rome by this year, and that most of them came from the poorer classes as they spoke Greek,...
Intro Intro Paragraph Music (Feature Photo: Ancient Roman Forum in Rome, Italy; Credit: Argenberg, Wikimedia Commons) 230 RULERS & ROYALTY: Severus Alexander is Roman Emperor – Pope Urban I dies and is succeeded by Pontian – Ardashir I is ruler of the Sassanian Empire (modern-day Iran) 231 RULERS & ROYALTY: Severus...
