Part 92

+-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ |=A. D.=| =Spain= |=Eastern Empire=| =Saracens= | =China, Japan, | | | | | | India= | +-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | =850= | | | | | | | | | |859. Japan: | | |864-1131. King- | | |Powerful Seiwa | | |dom of Barcelo- |867-1057. East- | |family arises. | | |na. |ern emperors of |870-892. | | | =875= | |the Macedonian |Muattemed re- | | | |885-1512. King- |line. |establishes the | | | |dom of Navarre. | |capital at | | | | |886-911. Leo |Bagdad. | | | =900= | |VI., the Philos-| | | | | |opher. | |907-960. China: | | |912-961. | | |Period of five | | |Abderrahman III.|917. The Bul- | |dynasties. | | =925= |_The greatest |garians besiege | | | | |Arab prince of |Constantinople. | | | | |Spain; splendid | | | | | |edifices built; |941. Russian ex-| | | | |learning en- |pedition against| | | | |couraged; com- |Constantinople, | | | | |merce flou- |under Igor. | | | | =950= |rishes._ | | | | | | |956. Armenia and| | | | | |the provinces | | | | | |between the | | | | | |Black and the | | | | | |Caspian Sea, re-| | | | | |covered from the| | | | | |Saracens. | | | | | | | | | | | |959-963. Romanus| | | | | |II. | |960. China: Tai | | | | | |Tsoo founder of | | | |964-975. Cyprus,| |later Sung | | | |Cilicia and |969. The |dynasty. | | | |Antioch are cap-|FATIMITES become| | | | |tured by Nice- |masters of | | | | |phorus; Syria is|Egypt, with | | | | |overrun, and, |Cairo as the | | | | |under Zimisces, |capital. | | | | |the Greeks pene-| | | | | |trate to the | | | | | |Tigris. | | | | =975= | | | | | | | |976-1025. Basil | | | | | |II. |980. Seljuk, a | | | =1000=|1000-1035. | |Turk officer of |1000-1186. | | |Sancho III., the|1018. Bulgaria |the khan of |India: Supremacy| | |Great, King of |again reduced to|Tartary, becomes|of Ghazni. | | |Navarre and |a Grecian pro- |a Mohammedan, | | | |Castile. There |vince. |and settles in | | | |existed hence- | |Samarcand. | | | =1025=|forward three |1025-1028. | |_Golden Age of | | |Christian king- |Constantine IX. | |Rajput civiliza-| | |doms in Spain: | | |tion in India._ | | |1, Castile-Leon;|_Culmination | | | | |2, Navarre; 3, |point of Byzan- | | | | |Aragon. _Golden |tine greatness. | | | | |age of Arabian |Greeks greatest | | | | |literature in |merchants and | | | | |Spain._ |capitalists of | | | | | |the world during| | | | |1026. Hixem III.|this century._ | | | | | | | | | | |1030. With him | | | | | |ends the Cali- | |1042. Turks in- | | | =1050=|fate of the | |vade and conquer| | | |West. |1057-1185. East-|Persia. | | | | |ern emperors of | | | | |1072. Alfonso |the houses of |The kingdom of | | | |VI. of Castile, |the Ducas and |Ghizni declines | | | |enlarges his |the Comnenes. |after 1032, and | | | |dominions by |Southern Italy |is confined to | | | |conquests from |lost to the |India; falls | | | |the Mohammedans.|Normans. |1183. | | | =1075=| | | | | | | | |1076. Jerusalem | | | | | |captured by | | | | | |Turks. | | | | | | | | | | | |1084. Seljuks in| | | |1085. The Cid. | |Asia Minor. | | | |Toledo is taken | | | | | |by Alfonso VI. | | | | | |after a three | | | | | |years’ siege. | | | | | | | | | | | |1086. The battle| | | | | |of Zalaca. | |1092. The Seljuk| | | | | |Empire falls | | | | | |apart into a | | | | | |number of smal- | | | | | |ler states. | | | | | |Iconium or Roum,| | | | | |Damascus, | | | | | |Aleppo, Kerman | | | | | |and Iran. | | | | | | | | | | | |1095-1270. =The | | | | | |First Crusade.= | | | | | | | | | | | |1099. Foundation| | | =1100=| | |of the Kingdom | | | =1125=| | |of Jerusalem. | | | | | |Godfrey of |1127. China: | | |1139. Kingdom of| |Bouillon, |Kaou Tsung, Emp-| | |Portugal. | |elected king by |eror. | | | | |the army. | | | | | | | | | | | |1146. =The | | | =1150=| | |Second Crusade.=| | | | | | |1156. Japan: War| | | | |_The power of |between the fa- | | | | |the crusaders |milies of _Gen_ | | | | |declines._ |and _Hei_. | | | | | | | | | | |1171-1193. | | | =1175=| | |Saladin becomes | | | | |1185-1204. |Sultan of Egypt.| | | | |Dynasty of |Extends his |1186-1206. | | | |Angelus. |dominions in |India: The | | | | |Egypt, conquers |Afghans of Ghor | | | | |Syria, Assyria, |rule. | | | | |Mesopotamia and | | | | | |Arabia. | | | | | | | | | | | |1189. =The Third| | | | | |Crusade.= | | | | | | | | | | | |1193. Saladin | | | |1195. Battle of | |dies; his do- | | | =1200=|Alarcon in which| |minions divided.| | | |the Christians | | | | | |are defeated. | |1202. =The | | | | |1204. New revo- |Fourth Crusade.=| | | | |lution. The Cru-| | | | | |saders return, | | | | | |again take | | | | | |Constantinople. | | | | | | | | | | | |1204-1261. Latin| | | | | |Empire. | |1206. GENGHIS | | |1212. Battle of | | |KHAN becomes | | |Navas de Tolosa;| | |emperor of the | | |a victory for | | |Mongols. | | |the Christians. | | | | | | | | | | | |1213-1276. James| | | | | |I., the Conquer-| | | | | |or in Aragon. | | | | | | | | | | | |1214-1217. Henry| | | | | |I., King in | | | | | |Castile. | | | | +-------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+