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The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]
- Автор: Gutenberg
- Год: 1905
- Язык: английский
- Жанр: История
Электронная книга - «The Great Events by Famous Historians [Volumes 1-14]». Краткое содержание книги:
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbarossa to Dante)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Days (1910-1914)
530. Benedict founds his new monastic order; the principal seat is Monte Casino, Campania.[77]
Belisarius, the greatest general of the Byzantine empire, defeats the Persians at Dara.
531. Alamundarus, at the head of the Persians and Saracens, defeats Belisarius, who maintains his ground against their nearly overwhelming force.
Accession of Khusrau to the throne of Persia.
532. End of the war between the Eastern Empire and Persia.
533. Justinian's general, Belisarius, destroys the Vandal kingdom in Africa.
Publication of the Pandects and Institutes of Justinian. See PUBLICATION OF THE JUSTINIAN CODE, iv, 138.
Philosophers, who were driven from Constantinople by Justinian's orders, return disappointed from Persia.
534. Overthrow of the Burgundian kingdom by the Franks, who divide the dominions between the three Frankish kings.
Solomon, left by Belisarius to command in Africa, defeats the Moors.
535. Belisarius is sent by Justinian to recover Italy from the Ostrogoths; he occupies Sicily.
536. Rome is occupied by Belisarius.
537. Vitiges unsuccessfully besieges Belisarius in Rome; great distress in the city.
538. Vitiges retreats from before Rome and takes shelter in Ravenna.
539. The Franks, under Theodebert, invade Italy and plunder Genoa; attacked by disease they return into Gaul.
540. Vitiges surrenders Ravenna and is sent a prisoner to Constantinople. Justinian recalls Belisarius from Italy.
Khusrau, King of Persia, invades Syria and takes Antioch.
A total eclipse of the sun, June 20th.
Justinian makes a formal relinquishment of Gaul to the Franks.
541. Belisarius takes the command of the Roman forces against the Persians; he defeats Khusrau.
Totila, King of the Ostrogoths, is successful in Italy. End of the succession of Roman consuls.
542. Belisarius compels the Persians to recross the Euphrates.
The great plague spreads from Egypt and rages for many years in Asia and Europe.
543. Naples surrenders to Totila, who then advances against Rome. Belisarius recalled from the East, after which the Persians again advance and defeat the Romans.
Moors renew the war in Africa; Solomon is slain in battle against them; Sergius, his successor, is incompetent.
Spain invaded by the Franks.
544. Again Belisarius is sent into Italy, but without supplies and with very inadequate forces.
Stotzas, leader of the Moors, defeats the Romans, but is slain in the battle.
545. While Belisarius awaits reinforcements Totila takes Asculum and Spoletum, and lays siege to Rome.
546. Rome is betrayed to Totila; Belisarius is joined by fresh troops, but arrives too late to prevent the capture and pillage.
547. Rome is utterly deserted for six weeks; it is retaken by Belisarius, who repairs the walls.
Ida founds the kingdom of Bernicia, in Northumberland, and builds Bamborough.
Bavaria becomes subject to the Franks.
548. Death of Theodora, Empress of the East.
Crotona and Tarentum are captured by Belisarius, after which he is recalled to the East.
549. Second siege and capture of Rome by Totila.
The Lazic War begins—a contest of Rome and Persia on the Phasis; called Lazic from the Lazi, a tribe which still subsists.
550. Vigilius, at Constantinople, urges Justinian to rescue Italy from the dominion of Arians.
Illyrium is freed of the Slavonians.
551. Totila restores the senate at Rome.
Silkworms said to have been first reared in Europe from eggs brought out of the East.
552. Totila defeated and slain by Narses, Belisarius' successor, to whom the greater part of Italy submits.
Teias is appointed their king by the Ostrogoths.
Cyric puts the Britons to flight at the battle of Searobyrig (Sarum).
553. Narses puts an end to the power of the Ostrogoths in Italy, and annexes it to the Eastern Empire.
Fifth general council of the Church at Constantinople. The exarch is established at Ravenna, representing the Emperor of the East.
554. Italy is invaded by the Franks and Alemanni; they are defeated by Narses.
555. Tzathes declared king of the Lazi; the Persians are defeated by the Romans at Phasis.
War between Clotaire and the Saxons.
558. Death of Childebert; the Salic Law prevents his daughters reigning; their brother, Clotaire, becomes sole king of the Franks.
559. Belisarius' last achievement is to expel the Bulgarians, who advanced to within twenty miles of Constantinople.
561. Death of Clotaire; the Frankish kingdom again divided.
The services of Belisarius excite the jealousy of Justinian and his courtiers.
562. Conspiracy of Marcellus and Sergius against Justinian; Belisarius unjustly accused of having taken part in the plot.
563. Belisarius is acquitted of the charges brought against him; he is restored to his honors.
St. Columba founds the monastery of Iona in Scotland.
565. Death of Belisarius, also of the emperor Justinian. Justin II succeeds to the throne.
566.[78] Alboin, at the head of the Lombards, and aided by the Avars, destroys the kingdom of the Gepidæ in Pannonia.
War in Britain between the kings of Kent and Wessex.
567. Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy formed by the division of the Frankish kingdom.
568. Invasion of Italy by the Lombards; Pavia besieged. Longinus, the successor of Narses, is styled the exarch of Ravenna by the Byzantines.
570.[79] Birth of Mahomet. See THE HEGIRA, iv, 198. Death of Narses.
571. Khusrau persecuting the Armenians, they place themselves under the protection of Justin; this leads to war between the Persians and Romans.
Uffa founds the kingdom of East Anglia in Britain.
572. Marcianus is sent by Rome to conduct the war against the Persians.
Alboin, Lombardy, grants allotments of territory to his chief captains, with titles of princes or dukes, for which they are to render military service.
573. Alboin, King of the Lombards, is murdered by Rosamond, his wife; she flees to Ravenna with her lover Helmichis, where she poisons him; before he dies he compels her to drain the cup. Cleoph is elected king of Lombardy.
The Visigoths subjugate the Suevi in Spain.
574. Tiberius is appointed Cæsar at Rome; he concludes a peace with the Persians. He is defeated by the Avars on the Danube.
Cleoph, the Lombard King, is slain; his son being a child, many of the dukes assume royal power and great anarchy prevails.
575. Justinian, son of Germanus, defeats the Persians and advances to the Araxes.
576. Armenia is occupied by the Persians; Justinian arrives too late to prevent it.
578. Death of Justin. Accession of the emperor Tiberius Constantinus in the East.
579. Maurice, commanding the Romans, is victorious over the Persians.
580. Further successes of Maurice in Mesopotamia.
582. Death of Tiberius and accession of Maurice, Emperor in the East.
584. Many native Gauls retire into Armorica, where they preserve their Celtic tongue.
586. Cridda founds the last Saxon kingdom of Mercia. The Britons retire to the western side of the island, unite in a general league, and call themselves Cymri.
588. Northumberland is founded by the union of the kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira, under Ethelric.
589. Arianism is abandoned by the Visigoths in Spain. 591. Peace between Persia and the Eastern Empire.
597. Augustine sent by Gregory the Great to preach Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons. See AUGUSTINE'S MISSIONARY WORK IN ENGLAND, iv, 182.
602. Revolt in Constantinople; Phocas is proclaimed emperor; flight of Maurice with his family; they are taken and put to death.
603. Khusrau, the Persian ruler, declares war against Phocas to revenge the death of his benefactor, Maurice.
605. Phocas begins his cruelties; Constantina, the widow of Maurice, is tortured and afterward beheaded with her daughters; Narses is decoyed to Constantinople and there burned alive. The hippodrome is defaced by the heads and mangled remains of the tyrant's victims.