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| 98 |
| | | Trajan, succeeding to the imperial throne in AD 98, is sufficiently confident to spend a year in Germany before returning to Rome | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The Czechs are the most powerful of the various Slav tribes by now settled in Bohemia | |
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| 552 |
| | | The territories won by Clovis become divided into the two Frankish kingdoms of Austrasia and Neustria | |
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| c. 687 |
| | | With a victory at Tertry, Pepin II wins effective control over all three Frankish kingdoms | |
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| 743 |
| | | Boniface, working as a missionary among pagan Germans, makes his headquarters at Mainz | |
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| c. 750 |
| | | The professional bards of the Germanic tribes give lasting life to Norse legend | |
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| 771 |
| | | On the death of his brother, Charlemagne inherits the entire kingdom of the Franks | |
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| 772 |
| | | Charlemagne destroys a great Saxon shrine, the Irminsul - the start of a 30-year campaign against his pagan neighbours in what is now Germany | |
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| 781 |
| | | Charlemagne, meeting the English scholar Alcuin on a visit to Italy, invites him to become head of the palace school in Aachen | |
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| 796 |
| | | Alcuin leaves the palace school at Aachen to become abbot of the monastery of Tours | |
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