Events Tagged: "arrival"

Nehemiah arrives as governor - inspects ruined walls at night, begins reconstruction despite Sanballat's opposition

Magna Mater arrives in Rome - black meteorite of Cybele installed on Palatine, eunuch priests (galli) shock Romans with self-castration

Vespasian arrives with 60,000 troops - begins systematic conquest of Galilee, Josephus commands Jewish forces

Hengist and Horsa arrive in Kent - Vortigern invites Saxon mercenaries to fight Picts, beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement

Manichaeism officially arrives in China - Mihr-Ohrmazd presents Manichaean texts to Empress Wu Zetian

Elephant arrives at Aachen - Abul-Abbas, gift from Harun al-Rashid, only elephant in Europe, dies in 810

Magyar tribes led by Árpád arrive in Carpathian Basin, beginning Hungarian conquest of the homeland

Young Henry of Anjou visits England - 14-year-old future Henry II makes first attempt, Stephen chivalrously pays for his return

Marco Polo reaches Xanadu - presents papal letters to Kublai Khan, enters Mongol service, learns languages

John Hawkwood arrives in Italy - joins White Company at Pisa, begins 30-year Italian career

Shroud of Turin arrives in Turin - Duke Emmanuel Philibert transfers from Chambéry - St. Charles Borromeo walks barefoot from Milan to venerate - 'This is truly the work of God'