How far back the documented line reaches — family milestones against world history
c. 580
Fall-of-Rome aftermath; Gregory the Great soon Pope
Pepin of Landen b. — deepest documented ancestor
732
Battle of Tours halts the Umayyad advance
won by ancestor Charles Martel
800
Christmas Day: an emperor crowned in Rome again
that emperor: Charlemagne, direct ancestor
858
Viking age in full storm
Kenneth MacAlpin (Scots) & Æthelwulf (Wessex) die — both ancestors
935–51
Irish annals record the age of kings
Leinster & Thomond ancestor-kings attested
1014
Battle of Clontarf breaks Viking power in Ireland
High King Brian Boru, ancestor, falls in victory
1066
Norman Conquest of England
William the Conqueror — ancestor; Aubrey de Vere I in Domesday Book
1215
Magna Carta at Runnymede
3 ancestors present: King John + 2 surety barons
1346–1415
Hundred Years' War: Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt
de Vere earls commanded at all three
1607–31
Jamestown; English America begins
Capt. Hugh Bullock on the Virginia Council, 1631
1776
American Revolution
3 patriot ancestors: Smart, Bullock, Coney
1853
German emigration after the failed 1848 revolutions
Andreas Friedrich Trenckmann sails for Texas
1861–65
American Civil War
Julius Buchanan Kennedy dies, 1864
1902–49
The American century
W.C. Morgan b.; later Mississippi's Baptist music secretary
2002–11
The 21st century
Will m. Kari (2002); Elia, Hannah & Sarah born