3000bc: In Iraq, cuniform writing appears.

620: The Angles under King Edwin of Northumbria invade Rheged ("Old North") in Northern England,
and expel King Llywarch Hen. He flees to Powys, and becomes a famous bard. Edwin's armies fight
against Gododdin and Strathclyde.

650: King Oswiu of Bernicia seeks Irish support against the forces of Penda. While in Ireland he
has a liaison with Fin, the granddaughter of King Colman Rimid Ui Neill.

665: Muslim Conquest: An Arab army (40,000 men) advances through the desert and captures the Byzantine
city of Barca (Libya)

698: Arab forces under Hasan ibn al-Nu'man capture Carthage, ending Byzantine rule in North Africa.
The defeated Byzantine fleet revolts and proclaims Tiberios III, who deposes Leontios after a brief
siege of Constantinople, Byzantine Emperor.

720: King Ine of Wessex builds a stone church at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset.

792: The Westphalians rise up against the Saxons, in response to a forcible recruitment for wars
against the Avars. However, Pepin, sub-king of Northern Italy and son of King Charlemagne, continues
the war, and wins considerable booty from the Avars.

830: 16-year-old Emperor Theophilos marries the Armenian noblewoman Theodora, in the Hagia Sophia
at Constantinople. He chooses her during a representation of a bride-show; she becomes empress (Augusta)
of the Byzantine Empire.

844: Louis-Ii, eldest son of Emperor Lothair I, is crowned king at Rome by Pope Sergius II, and
becomes co-ruler of Middle Francia, and over Lombardy, Friuli, and Tuscany in Italy.

863: Viking raiders again plunder Dorestad (modern Netherlands), a Frankish port on the mouth of
the river Rhine. It thereafter disappears from the chronicles.

882: King Alfred the Great increases the size of his new navy, and sails out to attack four Viking
ships. Two of the ships are captured (before they surrender), and the other crews are killed.

902: Battle of the Holme: The Anglo-Saxon army is defeated by the Danish Vikings under AEthelwold
(a son of AEthelred I) at Holme. AEthelwold is killed, ending his revolt against King Edward the
Elder.

917: Battle of Confey: The Norse Vikings under Sigtrygg Caech defeat and kill King Augaire mac Ailella
of Leinster in battle. Sigtrygg re-captures Dublin and establishes himself as king, while his kinsman
Ragnall ua imair returns to England to become King of Northumbria.

65: Automatic doors are invented by Hero of Alexandria.