610 - Roman Emperor Heraclius (610 - 641) launched a campaign against the encroaching Sassanid Persians. 612 - before he could expel these Persians from the region, they destroyed the Levant and Asia Minor, seized Damascus and Jerusalem, and carried off the Holy Cross. 616 - Sassanid Persians...
300 - the German Dukedom of the Saxons was founded. 429 - Angles, Saxons, and Jutes expelled the Picts and Scots from southern England. 457 - the Britons abandoned Kent to the Jutes. 597 - Pope Gregory the Great (590 - 604) dispatched St Augustine to Kent to...
1071 - Battle of Manzikert: the Seljuk Turks, led by Alp Arslan, defeated Roman Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes and established their 'Sultanate of Rum' in Anatolia (in Konya); - and the Danishmendids imposed their control over Central and Eastern Anatolia for over a century. This Turkish advance...
1453 - around dawn, on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II and his Turkish irregulars forced open the Kerkoporta The Turkish army poured into the city, made their way to the top of the Tower, and raised the Turkish Flag. 1453 - after smashing through...
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte ignored the Rights of Man, locked people up without trial, and his secret police continually inflicted torture, even though that practice had long been abolished. 1810 - Bonaparte's hegemony peaked: France annexed much territory extending from the Pyrenees to Denmark in the north, and...