 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| c. 1200 BC |
| | | Palaces in Mycenae are destroyed, probably by the so-called Sea Peoples from the west and south coasts of Turkey | |
| |
|
| 390 BC |
| | | Celtic tribes , pushing south through the Alps, reach Rome and sack the city | |
| |
|
| 121 BC |
| | | The Romans establish a province in the south of France, still acknowledged in the name Provence | |
| |
|
| 413 |
| | | The Burgundians cross the Rhine and settle round Worms, before moving south to the Savoy region | |
| |
|
| c. 550 |
| | | Most of Spain is by now in the hands of the Visigoths, though for a while the Byzantines win back territories in the south | |
| |
|
| 568 |
| | | The Lombards invade northern Italy, and within four years occupy it as far south as the Po | |
| |
|
| 1066 |
| | | Harold, hurrying south to confront the Normans after his victory at Stamford Bridge, is defeated and killed at Hastings | |
| |
|
| 1263 |
| | | Pope Urban IV offers Sicily to a French prince, Charles of Anjou, who marches south in 1266 to fight for the kingdom | |
| |
|
| 1377 |
| | | Jogaila inherits a pagan Lithuanian kingdom which has been extended as far south as Kiev | |
| |
|
| 1391 |
| | | Construction begins on a canal from Lübeck south to the Elbe, linking the Baltic and the North Sea | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |