The Saracens, Franks, and Greeks, in Italy
1st Adventures and Settlement of the Normans
Wars of the Greeks and Normans
| AD | Event |
| 840-1017 | Conflict of Saracens, Latins, & Greeks in Italy |
|---|---|
| 871 | Conquest of Bari |
| 890 | New Province of the Greeks in Italy |
| 983 | Defeat of Otho III.; Anecdotes |
| 1016 | Origin of the Normans in Italy |
| 1029 | Foundation of Aversa |
| 1038 | Normans serve in Sicily |
| 1040-43 | Their Conquest of Apulia; Character of Normans |
| l046 | Oppression of Apulia |
| 1049-54 | League of the Pope and two Empires |
| 1053 | Expedition of Pope Leo IX against the Normans; His Defeat and Captivity; Origin of the Papal Investitures to the Normans |
| 1020-85 | Birth and Character of Robert Guiscard |
| 1054-80 | His Ambition & Success |
| 1060 | Duke of Apulia, His Italian Conquest ; School of Salerno; Trade of Amalphi |
| 1060-90 | Conquest of Sicily by Count Roger |
| 1081 | Robert invades Eastern Empire; Siege of Durazzo; Army & March of Emperor Alexius; Battle of Durazzo |
| 1082 | Durazzo taken; Return of Robert, and Actions of Bohemond |
| 1081 | The Emperor Henry III invited by the Greeks |
| 1081-84 | Besieges Rome, Flies before Robert |
| 1084 | 2nd Expedition of Robert into Greece |
| 1085 | His Death |
| 1101-54 | Reign & Ambition of Roger, great Count of Sicily |
| 1127 | Duke of Apulia |
| 1130-39 | 1st King of Sicily |
| 1122-52 | His Conquest in Africa |
| 1146 | His Invasion of Greece —His Admiral delivers Louis VII of France, Insults Constantinople |
| 1148,1149 | The Emperor Manuel repulses the Normans |
| 1155 | He reduces Apulia and Calabria |
| 1155-74 | His Design of acquiring Italy and the Western Empire; his Failure |
| 1156 | Peace with the Normans |
| 1185 | Last War of the Greeks and Normans |
| 1154-66 | William I the Bad King of Sicily |
| 1166-89 | William II the Good Lamentation of the Historian Falcandus |
| 1194 | Conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily by the Emperor Henry VI |
| 1204 | Final Extinction of the Normans |