496-517 CE
The Arthurian Era, or Camelot period, of Britain begins. Britain is united under King Arthur and brings peace after years of fighting. Merlin serves as Arthur's confidant and advisor.
Notable figures of the Arthurian Era includes Brian Kent, the Silent Knight; Sir Justin; and Sir Percy, the Black Knight arose as value members of King Arthur's court.
514 CE
Beowulf kills the monster Grendel in Sjaelland, in the land of the Danes. He also later slays Grendel's mother, who had come for vengeance.
566 CE
Death of Beowulf at the hands of a dragon; succeeded by Wiglaf as king of Zealand and Geatland.
712 CE
The Sultan Al-Mansur comes to power in the Abbasid Caliphate.
730 CE
The mad Arab poet Abdul Alhazred writes a book of ultimate evil, the Kitab Al-Azif, a repository of knowledge about the Great Old Ones and descriptions on how they can be summoned.
792 CE
The Persian sailor Sinbad begins his first voyage.
805 CE
Sinbad finish his seventh and final voyage.
859 CE
The rebel group, the House of Flying Daggers, threatens a declining Tang Dynasty.
919 CE
Heinrich I, warlord and Duke of Saxony, declares himself Emperor of the Germans.
950 CE
Theodorus Philetas of Constantinople translates the Kitab Al-Azif into Greek, and renames it the Necronomicon.
962 CE
Heinrich I is killed while dabbling in sorcery, corrupting his mind and soul. His son, Otto I, becomes the first Holy Roman Emperor.
1000 CE
The Autobot maintenance crew of Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Prowl stumble upon the AllSpark. They are forced to make haste with the AllSpark after the arrival of the Decepticon flagship Nemesis. The AllSpark guide the Autobots along with Megatron (who is discreetly backstabbed by his subordinate Starscream) through a space bridge and warped to Earth. Megatron is separated and lands in the Arctic Circle in pieces. The Autobots goes into stasis as their vessel Orion lands at the bottom of Lake Erie.
1009 CE
Frost Giants from Jotunheim invade Norway, but are repulsed by the Asgardians led by Odin, the Allfather. Odin takes the Casket of Winters, the source of the Jotun's power, for safekeeping.
1066 CE
William the Conqueror unifies England.
1070 CE
The Order of Assassins is formed around this time. The Order continues into the modern era as the League of Assassins.
1128 CE
January 13: Pope Honorius II grants papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God.
1127 CE
The Balkan country of Syldavia is founded by a tribal chief named Hveghi.
1188 CE
A major split is created between the Knights Templar and the Order of St. Dumas.
1190 CE
Robin of Loxley begins his campaign of protecting the peasants of England as Robin Hood.
1192 CE
A Race probe arrives in the inner Solar System, labeled as the "Tosev System". Its creators are surprised of diverse life on Mars, Earth, and Venus. Seeing Earth, Tosev-3, as the most primitive and more habitable out of the three planets, the Race plan an invasion fleet for colonization within eight hundred years.
1195 CE
Borduria conquers Syldavia.
1206-1227 CE
Genghis Khan unites Mongolia and conquers China, devastates the Near East, and terrorize Russia and Eastern Europe, forging the largest empire in history.
1215 CE
The Magna Carta is created and limit the powers of the King of England.
1228 CE
Olaus Wormius (a monk, not the famous doctor who came later) translate the Greek Necronomicon into Latin.
1232 CE
Pope Gregory IX bans all copies of the Necronomicon.
1264 CE
John Caldwell, the alleged bastard son of Henry III, becomes an outlaw and starts calling himself Norman of Torn.
1274 CE
At the court of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo is granted a mysterious emerald lantern as a gift, with which he eventually returns to Europe.
1275 CE
Syldavia rebels from Bordurian rule and regaining independence under Ottokar I.
1292 CE
Marco Polo's fleet is struck by a tsunami off the coast of Borneo while returning from China. Only one ship and 18 passengers out of the original 14 boats and 600 crewmen make it to Persia.
1322 CE
Sir John Mandeville begins traveling across the known world, starting with a visit to Byzantium.
1325 CE
Tenochtitlan is founded in the Aztec Empire under the guidance of Tenoch.
1330 CE
The height of the city-state of Zinj, in the Virunga region of the Congo; famous for its blue diamond mines, the rulers of the city breed a brutal race of simian guards (a mix of gorilla and chimpanzee) to protect the mines from intruders.
1337 CE
The Hundred Years' War begins between the Kingdoms of England and France when Edward III of England lay claims to the French throne.
1348-1350 CE
The Black Death occurs. Between 75 to 200 million people in Europe are killed. The plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350-375 million.
1370 CE
English knight Sir Roger Fenwick, while employed by the French, settled in a fold in the Northern Alps with his followers and establish the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
1407-1433 CE
The eunuch Muslim admiral Zheng He leads a Chinese fleet on seven legendary voyages to over 20 nations, beginning—and ending—Imperial China's age of exploration.
1409 CE
Odin leaves the Tesseract, an artifact of immense destructive power, in Norway.
1424 CE
Joan d'Arc receives her first vision commanding her to lead the French against the English and Burgundians in the Hundred Years' War.
1431 CE
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy.
1453 CE
The Hundred Years' War between England and France sputters to an end, as feudal Europe begins to stabilize into nation-states.
May 31: Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1456-76 CE
Reign of Vlad Dracula of Romania who is also notoriously known as Vlad the Impaler for his cruelty. Dracula would be mortally wounded in battle against the Ottomans and taken in by a gypsy, who healed him through vampirization. After his 'death,' Vlad Dracula becomes the undead Count Dracula and Lord of the Vampires.
1492 CE
October 12: Christopher Columbus discovers the West Indies, beginning the rush to the new world.