235 Pressure on Rome by Goths, Quadi, Parthians, Franks and Alemanni increases. Following a defeat by the Germans, Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea, are massacred near Mainz (Mongontiacum) by his soldiers.
244 Aurelian defeats the Franks at Mainz.
250 A group of Franks penetrate as far as Tarragona in Spain (approximate date).
256 The Franks cross the Rhine, the Alamanni reach Milan.
259 The Franks who invaded the Roman Empire near Cologne in 257, reach Tarraco in Hispania
260 Franks took control over the Scheldt estuary (approximate date).
274 Germanic Peoples take advantage of the destroyed Roman armies of the Rhine. They pillage and depopulate large areas of Gaul, including Paris. The Rhine border is lost for 20 years. Franks live in the area of present southern Netherlands, northern Belgium and Rhineland from now on.
275 Gaul is pillaged by the Franks and the Alemanni.
277 Probus expels the Franks and Alamanni from Gaul.
293 Constantius Chlorus restores the northern Rhine border after defeating the Franks. Franks keep living in the north, because the Roman population had fled.
300 Franks penetrate into northern Belgium (approximate date).
306 The Franks cross the Rhine, but are repulsed by Constantine I.
310 Under Constantine, the Romans defeat the Franks.
320 Under Crispus, son of Constantine I, the Franks are defeated again, assuring twenty years of peace along the Rhine border.
341 Constans begins a campaign against the Franks.
352 The Alamanni and the Franks defeat the Roman army, taking control of 40 towns between the Moselle and the Rhine.
355 The Franks besiege Cologne for ten months.
358 Julian allows the Franks to form a Roman ''foederatii'' in Toxandria.
394 Battle of the Frigidus: Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
396 The Romans enlist the Franks and the Alemanni to defend the Rhine border.
400 The Franks establish themselves in Northern Holland.
420 Pharamond leads the Franks across the Rhine.
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447 Merovech becomes king of the Franks
457 Childeric I succeeds Merovech as king of the Franks (or 458).
458 Childeric I succeeds Merovech as king of the Franks (or 457).
463 Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks, allies with the Roman general Aegidus against the Visigoths.
481 Clovis I becomes king of the Franks upon the death of Childeric I (or 482).
486 Roman rule in Gaul ends with the defeat at Soissons of the Roman governor Syagrius by the Franks under Clovis I. The land between the Loire and the Somme becomes a part of the Frankish realm.
497 The Alemanni are defeated by the Franks under Clovis I near Bonn.
511 Frankish kingdom split in four after the death of Clovis I: Childebert I becomes king of Paris; Clotaire I king of Soissons; Chlodomer king of rl
511 King Clovis I of the Franks convenes the irst Council of Orl
531 The Franks and Saxons defeat the Kingdom of Thuringia.
532 Franks invade the kingdom of Burgundy.
536 The Franks invade roven
550 The Franks conquer the Thuringii (approximate date).
561 Clotaire I dies, and the Frankish kingdom is divided; Sigebert I becomes king of Austrasia, Chilperic I becomes king of Neustria, Charibert becomes king of Paris, and Guntram becomes king of Burgundy.
613 Clotaire II reunites the Frankish kingdoms by ordering the murder of Sigebert II.
615 The Edict of Paris grants extensive rights to the Frankish nobility.
623 Clotaire II, king of the Franks, makes his son Dagobert I king of Austrasia
623 Samo, reputedly a Frankish merchant, is elected the king of the Slavs in Moravia, Slovakia and Lower Austria.
631 Battle of Wogastisburg between the Slavs led by Samo, and the Franks led by their king, Dagobert I.
639 Dagobert I succeeded by Clovis II as king of the Franks in Neustria and Burgundy
668 Childeric II succeeds Clotaire III as King of the Franks.
674 Dagobert II and Theuderic I succeed Childeric II as king(s) of the Franks
689 Battle of Dorestad: The Frisians of king Radbod are defeated by the Frankish mayor of the palace, Pippin of Herstal. The Rhine delta becomes Frankish.
695 Childebert II succeeds Clovis III as king of the Franks.
732 Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of
743 Childeric III becomes king of the Franks after an interregnum of seven years.
751 Pippin the Short is elected as king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and beginning of the Carolingian dynasty.
754 Pope Stephen II crowns Pepin the short King of the Franks at St.-Denis outside Paris; also dedicates the foundations of the new abbey church.
757 Tassilo III, duke of the Bavarians, recognizes the supremacy of Frankish king Pippin the Short.
759 The Franks capture Narbonne; the Saracens are completely driven out of France.
768 Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman divide the Frankish kingdom after the death of their father Pippin the Short.
806 Dalmatia for a short time is part of the Frankish rather than the Byzantine Empire.
813 Louis the Pious crowned co-emperor of the Franks with his father Charlemagne.
814 Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne as king of the Franks and Emperor.
816 Frankish king Louis the Pious crowned emperor.
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825 Emperor Louis the Pious of the Franks wars against the Wends and Sorbs.
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888 January 13: With the death of Charles the Fat, the Frankish kingdom is split again, and this time permanently. Odo, Count of Paris becomes king of the western Franks.
896 The Eastern Franks invade and conquer Italy under the leadership of Arnulf of Carinthia.
986 Louis V becomes King of the Franks