History of Mediaeval Jews - Maurice Harris |
| Western Europe | |
|---|---|
| End of Roman Empire | 476 |
| Holy Roman Empire | 800 |
| Charlemagne "Roman Emperor" | 800 |
| Louis the Pious. | 814 |
| Partition of Verdun, Beginning of Germany | 843 |
| Charles the Bald. Founder of French Monarchy | 875 |
| End of Carlovingian Empire | 888 |
| Charles the Simple confiscates Jewish property | 914 |
| Otto the Great (Emperor) recovers Italy | 962 |
| Hugh Capet, King of France | 987 |
| Byzantine Empire | |
| Leo, the Iconoclast, persecutes the Jews | 717 |
| Council of Nicaea, Image worship resanctioned | 842 |
| Council of Meaux Anti-Jewish Bishop Amolo | 849 |
| Basileus I | 867 |
| Jewish Contemporaries | |
| Judah the Blind, Gaon of Sora | 759 |
| Anan founds Karaism, about | 770 |
| Isaac sent by Charlemagne to Haroun al Raschid. | 797 |
| Chazars embrace Judaism | 740 |
| Kalir and the Payetanlm about | 800 |
| Spread of Karaism | 825 |
| Saadyah Gaon | 892 |
| Extinction of Exilarchate | 940 |
| Close of Sora Academy | 948 |
| Transfer of Jewish Schools to Spain, about | 950 |
| R. Gershom | 960 |
| Fall of Chazar Kingdom | 970 |
| Gershom's Synod | 1009 |
| Close of Pumbeditha Academy | 1033 |