552 Avars appear near Wolga river, pushed out of their former sits by Turks
568 Longobards appear in Italy, pushed out of their former sits in Panonia by Avars
571 Aethiopian raid on Mecca
    Muhammad is borned
573 Justin II starts a new Roman war against Persia
    Mauritius stands on lead of Roman army
580 Slavs capture Sirmium, most important Roman point over Donau banks
582 Mauritius becomes the emperor
582-590 Consolidation of Longobards into one kingdom. Their king claims 'Flavius' title
590 Gregory the Great becomes the pope
590-591 succesfull campaign against Persia; most of Armenia gained by Romans
592-602 succesfull campaigns against Avars and Slavs by Romans
602 Focas revolution
602-619 Slavs capture almost entire Balkans and Greece
606 Chosroes declares war on the Empire
608 Heraclius (the father) revolts
610 Massacre in the hippodrome
    Heraclius becomes the emperor
    First visions of Muhammad
    Persians reach Constantinople
611 Persians capture Antiochia
614 Persians capture Jerusalem
616 Persians capture Alexandria
618 Heraclius plans to move to Carthago
619 Slavs reach Constantinople
    Revolt in Italy
622 Higra of Muhammad
623 Heraclius reach Tebriz
626 Avar-Slavic-Persian siege of Constantinople    EVENT!
    Chosroes dethronised
    Peace between Persia and Rome signed; Syria, Egypt, Palestine and Armenia return to the Empire
632 Muhammad dies
634 Muslims appear in Palestine and Syria
636 Battle of Al-Yarmuk river; emperor's brother killed; Roman defeat
638 Antioch and Jerusalem taken by Muslims
640 Caesarea Maritima taken by Muslims
641 Heraclius dies; chaos in the empire
642 Alexandria taken by Muslims for the first time
645 St Maxim travels to Rome and convinces the pope to reject monotheletism
656 Caliph Uthman murdered; first Muslim civil war
663 Roman unsuccessful campaign in Italy
663-668 Roman capital moved to Syracusae EVENT
668 Emperor Constantine III murdered
670 Cairouan founded by Muslims EVENT
670's Bulgars appear in Dobrudja
    Longobard court converts to catholicism EVENT
673-677 First Muslim siege of Constantinople EVENT
679 unsuccessful campaign against Bulgars
680 Sinod Constantinopolitan III; monotheletism condemned EVENT
692 Unsuccessful Justinian II's campaign against Muslims
    Sinod In Trullo; Rome and New Rome equalised EVENT
    Italia revolts
695 Justinian II dethronised EVENT
698 Carthage and most of African posessities captured by Muslims EVENT
705 Justinian II regains the power with Bulgarian help EVENT
708 Bulgars defeat Romans near Anchialos
711 Justinian II dethronised again
713 Another revolt and dethronisation
716 Two revolts; Leon III becomes the emperor EVENT
717 Sicilian revolt
717-718 Second Muslim siege of Cople EVENT
718-740 great military and administrative reforms EVENT
727 Muslims reach Nicaea EVENT
740 Muslims defeated by Romans near Akroinon EVENT

