Text search
Related images
HistoryWorld
Link
Map Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms |
| |
| | | Holy Roman Empire timeline |
| | | | | | |
|
| 753 |
| | Pope Stephen II anoints Pepin III and his two sons (one of them Charlemagne) in the abbey church of St Denis | |
| |
|
| 771 |
| | On the death of his brother, Charlemagne inherits the entire kingdom of the Franks | |
| |
|
| 800 |
| | In St Peter's in Rome, on Christmas Day, pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor - supposedly to Charlemagne's surprise | |
| |
|
| 805 |
| | Pope Leo III consecrates Charlemagne's new palace chapel in Aachen, modelled on San Vitale in Ravenna | |
| | Aachen Cathedral, Rotunda and Ambulatory Fotofile CG
|
|
|
| 962 |
| | The imperial coronation of Otto I by Pope John XII in St Peter's puts in place the formal role of a Holy Roman emperor | |
| |
|
| c. 1020 |
| | Count Radbot builds himself a 'hawk's castle' or Habichstburg, near Zurich, from which the Habsburg dynasty takes its name | |
| |
|
| | | | |
|