Nubia invaded by Greeks under Ptolemy II.

Pliny describes Nubia; Romans capture Jerusalem with Nubian mercenary cavalry.

Withdrawal of Romans from Lower Nubia to Aswan.

Anonymous Christians begin missions in Nubia; Mouses, a Nobadian prince may have converted to Christianity; Tantani, phylarch of Nobades, also appears to be a Christian.

Kushite empire replaced by three Nubian kingdoms: Nobadia in northern Nubia, Makuria in central Nubia, and Alwa southern Nubia.

Emperor Justinian rules the Eastern Roman empire; the reconquest of much of North Africa.

Nubian King Silko implies that he is the first Christian king of Nubia.

Julian, a Coptic monk sent by Empress Theodora to Nubia; Theodore becomes bishop of Philae (Nile island) in Nobadia; Monophysite faith.

King of Nobatia baptized.

Faras established as capital of Christian Nobadia. A former guest house is converted to a church; referred to as the "Rivergate Church."�

Missionary Longinus at Nobadia and Alwa (Alodia); established clergy and liturgy.

Dongola established as capital of Makuria after its conversion to Christianity; converted to Melkite Christianity (Orthodoxy.)

Alwa converts to Monophysite Christianity. Soba is the established capital.

Muslim conquest of Egypt.

Islamic armies of Amru b. El-As campaign against Nubia but fail to capture it.

Muslim rulers of Egypt attack Nubia.

Baqt (Pact) treaty established between Nubia and Egypt; Christian Nubians and Arabs in Egypt agree that Aswan on Nile should mark southern limit of Arab expansion; only time in the Middle Ages that Muslims exempted a non-Muslim state from conquest.

King Merkurius unites Nobadia and Makuria; sometimes referred to by bishops as the "new Constantine."�

Reconstruction of the cathedral in Faras under direction of Bishop Paulos.

Baqt treaty established between Egypt and Beja of the Red Sea.

Cyriacus, the Makurian king lays siege to Umayy capital at Fustat (Cairo); seeks release of Alexandrian patriarch Abba Michael.

Muslim raids led by Abd al A'la b. Hamid .

c. 800-1000 Nubian era of prosperity.

Dongola king and Beja refuse to pay baqt tribute.

Giorgios I (816-920), crowned King of Makuria.

Faras becomes metropolitan see; Abba Kyros (866-902.)

Reign begins of Makurian King Zakaria.

Nilotic pastoral expansion into southern Sudan.

Nubian King George IV.

Christian kingdom of Dotawo noted in Nubia.

Last priest sent to Nubia from Alexandria.

Nubians again pay baqt tribute, now to Mamlukes.

Mamluke Egyptians sack Dongola; forced conversion to Islam.

Defeat of the last Christian king in Nubia; first mosque is built at Dongola.

Bishop of Faras consecrated by Patriarch in Alexandria.

Fall of Roman Empire of the East.

The fall of Soba, capital of the last Christian kingdom of Alwa; rise of the Islamized Funj.