Early Medieval Europe
fall of Rome to Charlemagne, then the Viking-Magyar-Saracen shock
The Fall and the Migration Period
476 to 568 — Germanic kingdoms, Theodoric, Clovis, the Lombards
476–568
Justinian's Reconquest and the Plague
Justinian, the Corpus Juris, the western reconquest, and the bubonic plague that ended antiquity
527–700
Christianizing the West
Benedict, Gregory the Great, the Irish missions, Bede, and the Synod of Whitby
529–731
Mohammed's Wave and the Iberian Loss
the Arab conquest of Spain, the Battle of Tours, and the Frankish-papal alliance that became the Carolingian project
711–751
Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance
the Saxon Wars, Christmas 800, Aachen, Alcuin, and the script that became modern roman type
768–814
The Treaty of Verdun and the Carolingian Inheritance
Louis the Pious, the Strasbourg Oaths, and the partition that drew the political map of Europe for the next millennium
814–887
The Triple Shock: Vikings, Magyars, Saracens
Lindisfarne 793, the Great Heathen Army, Alfred and the Danelaw, the Magyar raids, and the proto-feudal response
793–955
Ottonian Recovery and the Year 1000
Henry the Fowler, Otto I and Lechfeld 955, the Cluniac reform, the conversion of Hungary/Poland/Russia, and the threshold of the High Middle Ages
919–1000