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Events relating to germany
The earliest known Venus figurine, with emphasized sexual features, is carved near the Hohle Fels cave in Germany from the tusk of a woolly mammoth
The defeat of three Roman legions in the Teutoberg Forest by Arminius, establishes the Rhine as a natural boundary of the Roman empire
Tacitus begins his career with two specialized but influential works of history, one on Britain and the other on Germany
Trajan, succeeding to the imperial throne in AD 98, is sufficiently confident to spend a year in Germany before returning to Rome
With a victory at Tertry, Pepin II wins effective control over all three Frankish kingdoms
Boniface, working as a missionary among pagan Germans, makes his headquarters at Mainz
The professional bards of the Germanic tribes give lasting life to Norse legend
On the death of his brother, Charlemagne inherits the entire kingdom of the Franks
Charlemagne destroys a great Saxon shrine, the Irminsul - the start of a 30-year campaign against his pagan neighbours in what is now Germany
Charlemagne, meeting the English scholar Alcuin on a visit to Italy, invites him to become head of the palace school in Aachen
Alcuin leaves the palace school at Aachen to become abbot of the monastery of Tours
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
The Jews prosper in the Muslim and Carolingian empires, forming strong communities in Spain and in Germany
Pope Leo III consecrates Charlemagne's new palace chapel in Aachen, modelled on San Vitale in Ravenna
The central Frankish kingdom, Francia Media, becomes one of the great fault lines of European history
Henry I is elected king of the east Frankish kingdom, consisting of four great feudal duchies - Bavaria, Swabia, Saxony and Franconia
A Muslim dynasty is established at Gao, on the Niger
Conrad II is elected as the German king, begining the dynasty variously known as Franconian or Salian
Ife emerges as a powerful kingdom in the equatorial forest of the lower Niger
Peter the Hermit, an old monk on a donkey, leads the largest of the popular groups from Germany on the first crusade
The German crusade begins with a massacre of Jews in many of the region's cities
Conrad III, of the Hohenstaufen family, is elected German king - a title which remains in the family for more than a century, bringing with it that of Holy Roman emperor
The second crusade is led east by two kings, Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany
In feudal France and Germany Charlemagne is by now venerated as a saint
German merchants begin trading along the coasts of Latvia and Estonia, a region to which they give the name Livonia
