CHRONOLOGY.

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A. M. A. D.

is followed by a plague which swept off abun-dance of people.

4935 931 John XI. succeeds Leo VI. in the popedom.

4936 932 Caller, the 38th Saracen caliph, begins to reign.

4937 933 A great tire at Constantinople, which destroyed

many stately buildings.

4938 934 Rhadi, the 39th caliph of the Saracens, begins to

reign, anil governs for seven years.

4940 936 The Saracen empire divided by usurpation into seven

kingdoms. From this time the Saracens ceasedto make a striking figure among the nations of theworld.

Leo VII. succeeds John XI. in the popedom.

4943 939 Athelstan, the Saxon king, makes the Welsh princes

his tributaries.

4944 940 Edmund I. succeeds his brother Athelstan, in the

kingdom of England.

Stephen IX. succeeds Leo VII. in the popedom.4947 943 Martin III. succeeds Stephen IX. in the popedom.

4950 946 Agapetus II. succeeds Marlin III. in the popedom.

4951 947 Edred succeeds his brothtr Edmund I. in the king-

dom of England.

4952 948 The Saracens break into the Greek empire, but are

defeated several times.

4954 950 The Cretan Saracens commit dreadful ravages on the

frontiers of the Greek empire; and defeat theGreek army sent against them.

4958 954 The Hungarians waste France with fire and sword ;

but are defeated the following year near the riverLech by Otho, emperor ot Germany.

4959 955 Edwy succeeds his uncle Edred in the kingdom of

England.

4960 956 John XII. succeeds Agapetus II. in the popedom.

4963 959 Edgar succeeds his brother Edwy in the kingdom of

England.

Romanes succeeds his father Constantine in theGreek empire.

4966 962 The Cretan Saracens defeated several times, and the

whole island reduced by Nicephorus Phocas.

The kingdom of Italy completed by Otho, emperorof Germany.

4967 963 Nicephorus Phocas succeeds Romauus in the empire

of the east.

The Saracens driven out of Cyprus, which is reunitedto the Greek empire.

4969 965 Benedict V. succeeds John XII. in the popedom.

4970 966 John XIII. succeeds Benedict V. in the popedom.

4973 969 The Saracens expelled Italy by Otho.

Otho subdues the Greeks that inhabited Calabria, andmakes them tributary.

John Zimisces succeeds Nicephorus Phocas in theGreek empire.

The Russi, or Rossi, the present inhabitants of Podolia,break into Bulgaria, and after ravaging the coun-try, and burning several towns, they return homeloaded with booty.

4974 970 The Rossi again invade the Greek empire ; but after

wasting all Thrace, and laying siege to Adriano-ple, they are overthrown by Bardas Sclerus.

The Russi, contpiering the Bulgarians, settle in theircountry ; but they are driven out of it in the fol-lowing year by Zimisces.

4975 971 Peace concluded between the Rossi and Greeks, and

a free trade between the two nations established.

4977 973 Domnus IF succeeds John XIII. in the popedom;

but only holding it three months, he is in thisyear succeeded by Benedict VI.

4978 974 Benedict VII. succeeds Benedict VI. in the pope-

dom.

4979 975 Edward the Martyr succeeds his father Edgar in the

kingdom, of England.

4980 979 Basiling and Constantine succeed Zimisces in the

. Greek empire.

4981 977 Thy emperor of Germany vanquishes the Bohemian-',

and wastes their country.

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4983 979 Etheldred II. succeeds his half-brother Edward the

Martyr in the kingdom of England.

4988 984 John XIV. succeeds Benedict VII. in the popedom..

4989 985 John XV. succeeds John XIV. in the popedom.

4990 986 John XVI. succeeds John XV. in the popedom.

4991 987 The third race of the French kings begins under

Hugh Capet.

4994 990 The bioody iiux, and divers other maladies, very

prevalent in England.

5000 996 Otho 111. makes the empire of Germany elective.

Gregory V. succeeds John XVI. in the popedom.

5003 999 The Danes ravaging Ensland receive from the Eng-

lish at one payment about 16,000/. raised by a lancl-tax called Danegelt.

Sylvester II. succeeds Gregory V. in the popedom.Poland raised into a kingdom, under Boleslaus, byfavour of Otho III. emperor of Germany.

5004 1000 Stephen, the first king of Hungary, began his reign.

5006 1002 A general massacre of the Danes in England on No-

vember 13; upon which Swein, the Danish king,came over, harrassed the English greatly, andmade them pay him annual tribute.

5007 1003 John XVII. succeeds Sylvester If. in the popedom;

and five months alter John XVII. is succeeded'by John XVIII.

5013 1009 Sergius IV. succeeds John XVIII. in the popedom.

5016 1012 Benedict VIII. succeeds Sergius IV. in the pope-

dom.

5017 1013 The Danes, under Swein, get possession of England.

5018 1014 Swein dying, is succeeded by his son Canute m the

kingdom ot England.

5019 1015 Etheldred II. is restored to the kingdom of England;

but dying the following year is succeeded by hisson Edmund Ironside.

5021 1017 Canute the Dane again takes possession of England,

and reigns 19 years.

5023 1019 The Greek emperor Basilius entirely reduces the Bul-garians to obedience.

5028 1024 John XIX. succeeds his brother Benedict VIII. in

the popedom.

5029 1025 Basilius dying, Constantine reigns alone over the

Greek empire.

5032 1028 Constantine dying, is succeeded by his son-in-law

Romanes II. in the Greek empire.

5034 1030 Roderick, a nobleman of Spain, expelled the Sara-

cens from Valencia.

5037 1033 Benedict IX. succeeds John XIX. in the popedom.

5038 1034 Michael Paphlago succeeds lo the eastern empire.

5039 1035 The kingdoms of Castile and Arragon begin.

5040 1036 Harold I. succeeds his father Canute in the kingdom

of England.

About this timeTangrolipix, the Turk, becomes mas-ter of Persia.

A peace of 30 years is concluded by Michael be-tween the Romans and Saracens/ whose caliph,being dead, his widow embraced Christianity.

5043 1039 Hardicanute succeeds Harold I. in the kingdom of

England, and reigns two years.

5045 1041 Edward the Confessor begins his reign over England.

5046 1042 The eastern emperor Michael having subdued all

• Bulgaria, being grievously afflicted with the drop-

sy, resigns the empire, retires into a monastery,and died the 10th of December; and is succeed-ed by Michael Calaphates, who reigning onlyfour months,, is succeeded by Constanlinus Mo-nomachus.

Tangrolipix is defeated by the Arabians.,

Media ravaged by 100,000 Turks, who kill all in.their way.

5048 1044 Gregory VI-. succeeds Benedict IX. in the popedom

5051 1047 Clement II. succeeds Gregory VI. i n t l ); . , )0 podom ;

and nine months atter Clement II. is succeededby Dumasus II. and in the course of anothermonth Damasus II. is succeeded bv Leo IX.

5053 1049 The Patzinacaya Scythian nation, cross the Danube

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