4260–4798 AM · 500 CE — 1038 CE
Savoraim and Geonim
63 events of Jewish history and world parallels.
4260 · 500 CEThe Completion of the Babylonian Talmud4265 · 505 CEThe Era of the Savoraim4280 · 520 CEThe Jewish Communities of Arabia4283 · 523 CENajrān and the fall of Yūsuf Asʾar Yathʾar4289 · 529 CEThe Code of Justinian4297 · 537 CEJustinian and Hagia Sophia4301 · 541 CEThe Plague of Justinian4313 · 553 CEJustinian's Novella 146: the state undertakes to say how the Torah is read4341 · 581 CESui: the reunification of China and the Grand Canal4349 · 589 CEThe Beginning of the Geonic Era4360 · 600 CETiwanaku4366 · 606 CEHarsha and Nalanda: the last great power of northern India4373 · 613 CEVisigothic Spain: eighty years of forced baptism4374 · 614 CEThe Persians take Jerusalem: three years of hope and their end4378 · 618 CEThe Tang dynasty and Chang'an4382 · 622 CEThe Hijra and the Rise of Islam4396 · 636 CEThe Arab Conquests and the Caliphate4398 · 638 CEThe Muslim conquest and the status of the dhimmi4400 · 640 CEThe Rise of Islam and Muhammad4402 · 642 CEThe Arab conquest of Iran4402 · 642 CEBustanai and the restoration of the exilarchate under the caliph4421 · 661 CEThe Umayyads and Damascus4451 · 691 CEThe Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem4470 · 710 CEJapan: Nara, Heian and the Genji4477 · 717 CEThe Arab Siege of Constantinople4478 · 718 CEThe Reconquista4486 · 726 CEByzantine Iconoclasm4491 · 731 CEBede and Monastic Learning4500 · 740 CEKhazaria adopts Judaism: a Jewish kingdom between the Volga and the Don4510 · 750 CEThe first books after the Talmud4510 · 750 CEThe Flowering of the Geonic Age and the Sheiltot of Rav Achai4522 · 762 CEThe Abbasids and the founding of Baghdad4527 · 767 CEThe Karaite Schism4553 · 793 CEThe Viking Age4560 · 800 CECharlemagne4562 · 802 CEAngkor: the Khmer empire and Angkor Wat4562 · 802 CEIsaac the Jew and the elephant: Charlemagne's embassy4573 · 813 CEThe House of Wisdom and the translations4585 · 825 CEAl-Khwarizmi and algebra4587 · 827 CEAgobard of Lyon: a complaint against the Jews at court4598 · 838 CEBodo-Eleazar: the emperor's deacon becomes a Jew4610 · 850 CEThe decree of al-Mutawakkil: a distinguishing mark on the dress4627 · 867 CEThe Macedonian Dynasty4630 · 870 CEThe Radhanites: Jewish merchants from Francia to China4635 · 875 CEThe Siddur of Rav Amram Gaon: the first prayer book4635 · 875 CEThe Mourners of Zion: Karaites settle in Jerusalem4642 · 882 CERav Saadia Gaon4689 · 929 CEThe Caliphate of Córdoba4690 · 930 CEThe Tiberian Masoretes and the Aleppo Codex: the text of the Tanakh takes form4700 · 940 CEThe quarrel at Cordova: how Hebrew got a grammar4700 · 940 CEThe Four Captives: the learning moves west4705 · 945 CEThe Golden Age of Spanish Jewry: Hasdai ibn Shaprut and Shmuel HaNagid4710 · 950 CEYosippon and the Kalonymides: the birth of Ashkenazi learning4720 · 960 CESong dynasty: printing, compass, gunpowder4720 · 960 CERabbeinu Gershom, Light of the Exile, and the Ban on Polygamy4722 · 962 CEOtto I and the Holy Roman Empire4729 · 969 CEThe Fatimids, Cairo and al-Azhar4747 · 987 CEIggeret Rav Sherira Gaon: the letter from which we know who followed whom4748 · 988 CEKievan Rus and Its Christianisation4760 · 1000 CEGhana and the Saharan Caravans4773 · 1013 CERabbi Yitzchak Alfasi (the Rif) and the Sefer HaHalakhot4785 · 1025 CEIbn Sina and the Canon of Medicine4798 · 1038 CERav Hai Gaon and the end of the age of the Geonim