| | | by Charlemagne. | | | | Increasing power of the | Division of Charlemagne’s | | | | Western Caliphate. | dominion among his | | | | | grandsons. | | | | | ENGLAND: Supremacy of | | | | | Wessex under Egbert. | | | | | The Danes, or Northmen, | | | | | harry the coasts of | | | | | Europe. | | | 850 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ 850 | | | Fatemide Mohammedan | Carolingian dominion divided| | | | dynasty established in | into West (Francia), East | | | | Egypt. | (Franconia, Germany), | | | | Decline of the Abassid | Central (Burgundy) and | | | | Caliphs. | Italy. | | | | | Pressure of Slavonic peoples| | | | | on East Germany. | | | | | ENGLAND: Alfred the Great. | | | | | Settlement of the Danes | | | | | in the Danelagh. | | | | | Organisation of | | | | | Government, Law, etc. | | | | | Advance of Magyars in | | | | | Hungary. | | | | | Iceland colonised, 874-950. | | | 900 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ 900 | | | | FRANCE: Duchy of Normandy | | | | | ceded to Rollo. | | | | | NORWAY united under Harold | | | | | Haarfager. | | | | | ENGLAND: House of Wessex | | | | | kings of all England. | | | | | GERMANY: Henry the Fowler, | | | | | Saxon King of Germany, | | | | | and his son Otto the | | | | | Great, check the Magyar | | | | | advance. | | | | | Pressure of Slavs on | | | | | Eastern Empire. | | | 950 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ 950 | | | Recovery of Eastern | EMPIRE: Otto becomes King | |