The Westminster Abbey in London was consecrated.
Béla I was crowned king of Hungary.
The final gasps of the Crab Head nebula were observed as it went supernova.
Henry IV was crowned King of Germany at Aachen Cathedral.
Chinese astronomers reported the brightest supernova known to man.
Edward the Confessor was crowned the new King of England in Winchester, England.
Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He was considered the last king of the House of Wessex.
Conrad II, also known as Conrad the Elder, was crowned king of Germany in Mainz Cathedral by Archbishop Aribo.
Otto III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor at the young age of 16.
The King of France, Louis V, was crowned.
Nikephoros II Phokas was crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
Edgar the Peaceful, noted for his peacekeeping, became King of England.
Louis IV was crowned king of West Francia.
The Saxon King Æthelstan of Southern England was the first successful king to take over Northern England.
The Battle of Tettenhall occurred, where the final major Viking army battled against England and was defeated by a landslide.
Renegades of the Abbasid Caliphate captured Thessalonica, which is modern-day Thessaloniki, Greece.
King Carloman II of West Francia was mortally wounded while out hunting.
Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor.
The earliest surviving dated printed book is produced in China.
The Rus' Khaganate started the Siege of Constantinople.
Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history.
Pope Paschal I crowned Lothair I as the Emperor of Italy.
King Louis the Pious was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
The Queen Adosinda of Asturias was placed in a convent at San Juan de Pravia for the rest of her life.
The oldest known recording of a solar eclipse from China was reported.
Following the fall of the Umayyads, the city of Baghdad, Iraq, was founded by caliph Al-Mansur the Islamic Ruler.
Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome.
Pope Constantine died.
The oldest Japanese coinage was minted.
Pope Sergius I consecrated Willibrord as bishop of the Frisians at the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, Italy.
Empress Wu Zetian proclaimed herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
The Pictish armies of King Bridei Mac Bili won a decisive victory over the armies of Northumbria at the Battle of Dun Nechtain.
The Kaaba caught fire and was burned down during the Siege of Mecca.
Pope Leo II became the bishop of Rome.
Chinese and Korean forces won the two-day Battle of Baekgangon.
Japan was founded by its legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
The Great Fire of Rome started when the merchant shops around the Circus Maximus caught fire.
A fire broke out in the evening and swept through the city of Rome, which lasted longer than a week.
The journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers began. This was known as the Hijrah.
Yohl Ik'nal ascended to the throne of Palenque, making her the first queen regnant in Maya history.
Justin II of Byzantine adopted Tiberius, his general, and proclaimed him Caesar.
The capital city of the Roman Empire, Constantinople, was severely damaged by an earthquake.
Hagia Sophia was inaugurated by the Emperor Justinian I as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral.
Thespis of Icaria, an ancient Greek poet, became the first recorded person to act out a character in a play.
Mercurius became Pope John II, making him the first pope to change their name after attaining popehood.
The most destructive riot in Constantinople's history, the Nika Riots, began during a chariot race.
Saint John I became the Catholic Pope.
The festival of Saturnalia was first celebrated after a temple to the Roman god Saturn was built in Rome.
Anastasius I Dicorus ascended to the throne of the Byzantine Empire at the age of sixty-one.
The Greeks defeated the Persians in the Battle of Marathon.
