540 Bubonic plague engulfs the Roman Empire until 592.
553 Justinian convenes the Second Synod of Constantinople, issuing a
decree that bans the doctrine of“past lifetimes” or “reincarnation,”
as well as removal of all veiled references to pre-existence from
religious documents.
567 Gregory of Tours reports that just before the Bubonic plague
invaded the Auvergne region ofFrance, three brilliant lights
appeared around the sun “and the heavens appeared to be on fire.”
590 Another historian reports that bright lights in the sky precede
the plague in another province inFrance.
1099 Christian Crusades to free Palestine from the Muslims. (To
1270).
1119 Founding of the Knights Templars.
1228 German emperor Frederick II leads a Crusade to Jerusalem.
1243 Centralization of Papal power in Pope Innocent IV until 1254.
1298 Between 1298 and 1314 seven large “comets” seen over Europe.
1333 A plague in China, preceded by a “terrible mist emitting a
fearful stench and infecting the air.”
1347 Bubonic plague spreads in Europe through 1350. Over 100 million
would die from the plague during the next 400 years.
1350 Renaissance Period, with its emphasis on freedom of the human
spirit, replaces oligarchic control structures in Europe. It produces
individualism that is immediately expressed as republican
nationalism, dedicated to ending all hereditary control and
dictatorship over the lives of people. The Renaissance Period becomes
destructured again by the old families in Europe. England eventually
becomes the source of the movement to destroy nationalism (initially
through conquest and establishment of theBritish Empire) and
individualism, expressed in the Communist movement. Eventually, two
world wars would be planned to restore rule by the oligarchy.
1400 European power centers coalesce into two camps: the
Ghibellines, who supported the Emperors Hohenstaufen family, and the
Guelphs, from Welf, the German prince who competed with Frederick
for control of the Holy Roman Empire. The Pope allied himself with
the Guelphs. All modern history stems directly from the struggle
between these two powers. The Guelphs are also called the Neri, Black
Guelphs, or Black Nobility, and supported William of Orange in his
seizure of the throne of England, which eventually resulted in the
formation of the Bank of England and the East India Company, which
would rule the world from the 17th century. All coup d'etats,
revolutions and wars in the19th and 20th centuries are centered in
the battle of the Guelphs to hold and enhance their power, which is
now the New World Order. The power of the Guelphs would extend
through the Italian financial centers to the north of France in
Lombardy (all Italian bankers were referred to as “Lombards.”
Lombard in German means “deposit bank,” and the Lombards were
bankers to the entire Medieval world. They would later transfer
operations north to Hamburg, then to Amsterdam, and finally to
London. The Guelphs would start the slave trade to the colonies. The
Guelphs, in order to aid their control of finance and politics, would
perpetuate Gnostic cults which eventually developed into the
Rosicrucians, Unitarians, Fabian Society and the World Council of
Churches. The East India company, together with John Stuart Mill,
would finance the University of London. A friend of Mill, George
Grote, would give the University of London £6000 to study “mental
health,” which began the worldwide “mental health” movement.
1444 Men taken from Lagos, Africa, to Seville, Spain, and sold into
slavery to work the sugar cane fields.
1454 Pope induced to extend his blessing to the slave trade and his
authority to “attack, subject and reduce to slavery” the Saracens,
Pagans, and other “enemies of Christ.” Portugal becomes a prime
user of slavery to promote its trade in sugar, to which people were
becoming addicted.
1493 Columbus transports sugar cane to the New World on the advice
of Queen Isabela. Members of his crew acquire syphilis in Haiti.
1495 Syphilis epidemic spreads to Europe from Naples, Italy, where
the troops of Charles VIII were quartered.
1495 Syphilis reaches Germany and Switzerland.
1496 Treatment of syphilis using mercury compounds introduced, based
on Arabic use of mercury compounds to treat skin diseases.
1496 Syphilis reaches England and Holland.
1497 Severe famine in Florence, Italy.
1497 Vasco da Gama carries syphilis to India. 1498 Syphilis outbreak
in India.
1500 Epidemic of syphilis.
1500 Dutch establish a sugar
refinery at Antwerp and ships sugar to Germany and England.
1501
Swift development of book printing and typography.
1505 Syphilis
outbreak reaches Canton, China.
1509 First attempts to restrict
right to practice medicine to licensed doctors.
1510 King Ferdinand
consents to recruitment of the first large contingent of African
slaves in the growing Spanish sugar industry.
1515 Spanish monks offer loans in gold
to anyone who would start a sugar mill.
1526 From 1526 to 1546,
there was a tendency for syphilis to become milder and more chronic
in
nature.
1528 Severe outbreaks of plague in England.
1533 First
non-medical insane asylums instituted.
1557 Massive influenza
epidemic in Europe.
1558 Tobacco first brought to Europe from
Mexico.
1560 Charles V of Spain builds vast palaces using taxes on
sugar trade
1563 General outbreak of plague in Europe. Kills 20,000
in London.
1567 In South America, 2 million die from typhoid fever.
1568 Disease epidemic in Lisbon kills 40,000.
1573 First German
sugar cane refinery at Augsburg.
1578 First recognized description
of whooping cough (Pertussis) by French physician Guillame Baillou
during epidemic in Paris.
1592 Plague kills 15,000 people in London.
1599 Outbreak of plague in Spain.