Location:
Germany
Coordinates:
50.7753, 6.0839
Events at Aachen Palace (24)
782
ID: 4079
Alcuin arrives at Aachen - becomes head of palace school, begins transforming Frankish education
ID: 4079
783
ID: 4080
Alcuin establishes curriculum - introduces seven liberal arts (trivium and quadrivium) to Frankish education
ID: 4080
784
ID: 4081
Alcuin creates palace academy - gives classical nicknames: Charlemagne is 'David', himself 'Flaccus' (Horace)
ID: 4081
789
ID: 2901
Admonitio Generalis - Charlemagne orders schools in every monastery and bishopric, Alcuin leads palace school
ID: 2901
790
ID: 2902
Palace complex at Aachen begun - modeled on Ravenna, octagonal chapel, becomes Charlemagne's favorite residence
ID: 2902
797
ID: 2908
Embassy to Harun al-Rashid - Charlemagne sends delegation to Abbasid Caliph, alliance against Byzantium
ID: 2908
801
ID: 4092
Alcuin presents Tours Bible to Charlemagne - Christmas gift, masterpiece of Carolingian manuscripts
ID: 4092
802
ID: 2910
Elephant arrives at Aachen - Abul-Abbas, gift from Harun al-Rashid, only elephant in Europe, dies in 810
ID: 2910
802
ID: 2913
Administrative reforms - Charlemagne sends missi dominici (royal inspectors) throughout empire, issues capitularies
ID: 2913
806
ID: 2917
Divisio Regnorum - Charlemagne plans division of empire among three sons, but two die before him
ID: 2917
811
ID: 2920
Death of Charles the Younger - Charlemagne's eldest son dies, Louis the Pious now sole heir
ID: 2920
813
ID: 2922
Louis the Pious crowned co-emperor - Charlemagne personally crowns son at Aachen, no papal involvement
ID: 2922
814
ID: 2923
January 28, 814
Death of Charlemagne - dies at 71 after 46-year reign, buried in Aachen chapel, Louis inherits intact empire
ID: 2923
816
ID: 2924
Benedict of Aniane's reforms - Louis the Pious enforces Benedictine Rule in all monasteries, religious revival
ID: 2924
817
ID: 2926
Ordinatio Imperii - Louis names eldest son Lothair co-emperor, younger sons get kingdoms, attempts to preserve unity
ID: 2926
819
ID: 2929
Louis marries Judith of Bavaria - second marriage produces Charles the Bald (823), disrupts succession plans
ID: 2929
834
ID: 2931
Louis restored - loyalists and clergy restore Louis, Lothair flees to Italy, empire increasingly divided
ID: 2931
876
ID: 2941
Death of Louis the German - East Francia divided among three sons, beginning German stem duchies
ID: 2941
877
ID: 2942
October 877
Death of Charles the Bald - dies crossing Alps, son Louis the Stammerer inherits weakened West Francia
ID: 2942
879
ID: 2943
Death of Louis the Stammerer - two posthumous sons, succession disputed, Vikings intensify raids
ID: 2943
884
ID: 2945
Charles the Fat reunites empire - briefly controls all Carolingian lands, but weak and incompetent
ID: 2945
888
ID: 2951
Arnulf becomes King of East Francia - illegitimate Carolingian, defeats Vikings at Dyle (891)
ID: 2951
888
ID: 2949
January 888
Death of Charles the Fat - dies weeks after deposition, five kingdoms emerge from Carolingian Empire
ID: 2949
911
ID: 2954
Death of Louis the Child - last East Frankish Carolingian dies childless at 17, nobles elect Conrad I
ID: 2954