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Timeline
Timeline for Sardinia
First century BC: Roman colony of Turris Lybisonis is founded (Porto Torres)
Edict against Christians
314: Earliest evidence of a diocese on Sardinia
395: Theodosius’ division of the Roman Empire
455: The sack of Rome by the Vandals
455–476: Vandals and their king Genseric gain control over the ports of Sardinia
484: The Vandals force Catholics to convert to Arianism. Many leave North Africa and
flee to Sardinia and Corsica
Sixth century: Jews settle in the town of Carales in Sardinia
508–523: Fulgentius of Ruspe is banished to Sardinia
523: Succession of Hilderic ends exile of African bishops
533: Justinian’s general Belisarius eradicates the Vandal kingdom
534: Sardinia is incorporated into Byzantium by Justinian
535: Belisarius conquers Sicily and Sardinia is returned to the Byzantine Empire
551–553: Ostrogoth occupation of the coasts of Sardinia
565: Justinian’s death
590–604: Pope Gregory I (the Great)
594: According to the letters of Gregory the Great Sardinia was subject to Justinianic
legislation
624: Spain was reconquered by the Visigoths
636: Arabs move into Syria, Palestine, and Egypt
641–668: Constantine III and his son Constans II defend Sardinia from the Lombards
and Islamic incursions in Sardinia begin
698: Muslim invasion of Carthage
697–698: Carthage falls to the Arabs
709/711: Islamic incursions into Sardinia set out from Andalusia
725–842: Iconoclastic crisis
752: Gizyah taxation in Sardinia
753: Islamic occupation of Sardinia and peace treaty
827–900: Gradual Muslim conquest of Sicily
846: Muslims depart from the Sardinia to attack Rome
Tenth and/or eleventh centuries: Sardinia is divided into four autonomous kingdoms
known as the guidicati
934: Genoa is sacked by fleets from Maghreb