Timeline Of Avignon
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Avignon in southern France. Prior to 14th century * 4th–5th century AD - Diocese of Avignon established. * 500 - Frankish regulus, Clovis I besieges the city during the Franco-Visigothic Wars, but is convinced to abandon the siege. * 508 - Wandill, a lieutenant of Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, makes Avignon his headquarters. * 581 - Mummolus in Avignon resisted siege by the Austrasian Guntram Boso. * 591 - Outbreak of plague. * 599 - Outbreak of plague. * 730 - Saracens in power. * 737 - Town falls to the Frankish leader Charles Martel after a siege. * 739 - Saracens retake town. * 1054 - Great Schism breaks apart the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church, of which the Diocese of Avignon belongs to the former and will play an important role for the Papacy in coming centuries. * 1080 - Catholic Council of Avignon held. * c. 1129 - Beginning of the ''Commune'', a period when Avi ...
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