 Neptune conjunct Pluto 905 Rise of the European identity, consolidation of elites & nation-states; unstable Epoch of Five Dynasties in China; zenith of Umayyad Caliphate in Cordoba, Spain (civilising influence on Europe); Magyars on rampage in Germany & Italy, destroying Moravia; rise of Shi'ite Fatimids in Tunisia; Viking raids, Vikings granted Normandy; Polynesian Maoris settling New Zealand; end of Carolingian dynasty; Kiev (founded by Vikings) attacks Constantinople, starting long relationship with Byzantium; expansion of monasteries in Europe (Cluny)
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 Uranus square Pluto 917-18
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 Uranus square Neptune 924-27
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Magyars still looting Europe. Mongol Khinan Khanate established, C Asia; Korea unified; German expansion (Saxon emperors); Byzantium beseiged by Bulgars - zenith of Bulgars; Icelandic Allthing (world's oldest lasting parliament); Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad politically compromised; Byzantine revival; reform movement in European monasteries (Odo) |
 Uranus conjunct Pluto 947 Khitan Monglols invade N China, founding Liao dynasty in new capital of Beijing; Tunisian Fatimids conquer Maghreb, Sicily & S Italy; Europe in turmoil - zenith of 'Dark Ages'; Ottonian period in Holy Roman Empire begins European revival; zenith of kgdm of Ghana and of Zimbabwe civilisation; downfall of Zapotecs in Mexico; Christian conversions in C Europe; expansion of German influence in France (Otto I); ascendancy in Vietnam; power shift in Baghdad (end of Abbasid greatness); migration of Sami (Lapps) from Siberia to N Scandinavia
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 Uranus conjunct Neptune 965 Islamic univrsities; European church-building phase starts; re-uniting of China (Northern Song); Toltec revival in Yucatan; zenith of Fujiwara Japan; unification of Saxon England, final resistance of Welsh against English; decline of Khazar khanate (Viking invasion); collapse in India (fall of Pala, Rashtrakuta, Pratihara), laying India open to Muslims; founding of Turkic sultanate of Ghazni in Khorasan (Afghanistan); Byzantium defeats Bulgar & Arab incursions, expands in Syria; ascendancy of Kiev (Ukraine)
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 Uranus square Pluto 978-80 Zenith in Cordoba & Kiev; renewed Viking raids on Europe; rise of European trading cities (Venice, Genoa, Antwerp, London, Paris, Mainz); Slavic rebellion against Germans; fall of Axum (Eritrea); Egyptian Fatimids conquer Syria & Iraq; Greenland settled by Vikings
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 Uranus square Neptune 1009-12 Vikings reach America, dominate England (Canute), convert to Christianity (Sweden & Norway); Ireland united, Vikings defeated; climax of Toltecs (Yucatan) and Tiahuanacu (Peru); sultanate of Ghazni attacks NW India (Muslim invasion of N India); slow decline of Cordoba
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 Uranus opposition Pluto 1028-31 Collapse of Cordoba Caliphate, rise of Spanish Reconqvista (Sancho of Navarre, rise of Castile); Jaroslav the Wise, Kiev (zenith); Canute attempts Viking empire (England & Denmark); Chola expansion, India & Burma, Malaya, Srivijaya; Song dynasty loses N China to Ch'in; rise of cult of Mary in Catholic church; Seljuk Turk expansion, C Asia
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 Uranus opposition Neptune 1048-50 Rise of Seljuk Turks, taking Persia & Baghdad; reform Papacy, Europe; internal dissent in Islamic world, decline of Shi'ite Fatimids; ascendancy of Burma; civil war in Japan; rise of Normans in Normandy & Sicily; pagan uprising in Hungary; growth of Mississippian culture, American Midwest; schism between Catholic & Orthodox churches; florescence of Anasazi culture, Arizona
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 Uranus square Pluto 1058-59 Decline of Kiev; Moorish conquest of south Spain; decline of Byzantium (pressures from invaders); Norman expansion into Sicily & later England; stability in China, end of the Viking age
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 Neptune square Pluto 1075-79 Norman England & Italy; Seljuk invasion of Syria & Palestine, threatening Byzantium (sparking later Crusades) & revival in Baghdad; Islamic disorder; Papal primacy extended over German Holy Roman Empire; Spanish ascendancy; Chalukya-Chola dynasty, India; Islam crosses the Sahara to Mali, Hausa, Ghana; Moors destroy kgdm of Ghana; establishment of Serbian state in Kosovo
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 Uranus conjunct Pluto 1090
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 Uranus square Neptune 1096-1100
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Domesday Book, England; rise of the idea of Crusades; rise of Fraternity of Assassins (Persia); El Cid, reconqvista in Spain; Seljuk breakdown, Baghdad; First Crusade, Euro invasion of Anatolia, Syria, Jerusalem; European monasticism (Citeaux); first European universities; first persecutions of Jews in Europe; German eastward colonisation; Patzinak Turks settle Ukraine; reforms in China |
 Uranus conjunct Neptune 1136
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 Uranus opposition Pluto 1141-42
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Rise of Moscow as Russian centre; zenith of European scholasticism; rise of Italian port cities; Siberian Ch'in dynasty, N China - China divided between Ch'in & Sung, much warring & devastation; import of Oriental ideas into Europe via Crusades; civil war in England (Matilda); independence of Portugal; Byzantium at a new zenith; birth of future Austrian Habsburg empire; messianic movements in France & Persia |
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 Neptune opposition Pluto 1151-54 Rise of large Euro trade fairs & Hansa ports, prosperity, Gothic cathedral building (Chartres); end of sultanate of Ghazni, Afghanistan; Inca culture founded by Manco Capac, Cuzco; zenith of Buddhist culture in Burma; low-point in Muslim world; decline of Toltecs in Mexico (prelude to Aztec rise); Angevin empire, Henry II, England & France
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 Uranus square Pluto 1170-72 First Muslim empire in N India; zenith of Hindu Srivijaya kgdm in Java; rise of Barbarossa (Germany) & Saladin (Egypt); beginning of English rule of Ireland (Henry II); fall of Toltecs, Byzantium expands into Balkans; Oxford univ founded; Waldensians, France (early Protestants)
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 Uranus square Neptune 1181-84 Zenith of Angkor kgdm, Cambodia; zenith of German power in Europe; fall of Crusader Jerusalem, Palestine & Syria to Saladin (failure of Crusade); civil war, Japan; zenith in Hungary (Ladislas I); suppression of heretics, Europe, starts (Cathars, Waldensians)
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 Uranus conjunct Pluto 1201 Third Crusade; zenith for Papacy; Kamakura Shogunate, Japan; Aztecs take C Mexico; Teutonic Knights colonise Estonia; Sultanate of Delhi founded; Fourth Crusade, turns bad, takes Byzantium; rise of Genghiz Khan, Mongolia; rise of Muslim Mali & Hausa, W Africa; Jewish Qabalistic philosophy, Moorish Spain; Icelandic Sagas; founding of Amsterdam (rise of Holland); zenith of Saharan Kanem-Bornu
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 Uranus opposition Neptune 1220-23 Hojo period, Japan; Magna Carta, England; Spaniards reclaim much of Iberia from Moors; Saladin beats Crusaders - Ayyubid empire, Middle East; Genghiz Khan & Mongols invade N China, C Asia (Samarkand, Bokhara); decline of Papal power; founding of Vienna; German colonisation of E Europe at peak; final end of Toltecs, Mexico
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 Uranus square Pluto 1236-39 Mongols subdue Russia & Ukraine, invade C Europe, take N China; Moors lose Cordoba to Spaniards; rise of Inquisition in Europe; founding of Berlin; Delhi Sultanate grows (Bengal to Sindh); zenith of Mississippian culture; Russian revival (Alexander Nevsky)
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 Uranus opposition Pluto 1283-86 Kublai Khan reunites Mongol empire; Mongol Yuan dynasty, China; Edward I, lawmaker, England; Welsh rebellion, fails; birth of Habsburg dynasty; ascendancy in Florence; Mongol attacks, Persia, S China, SE Asia; Osman I founds Turkic Ottoman dynasty, Anatolia
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 Uranus conjunct Neptune 1307
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 Uranus square Pluto 1312-13
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Ottomans first defeat Byzantines; fall of Yuan dynasty, China; Mandingo zenith, W Africa, Mandingo annexes Songhai; peak of Nestorian Christian influence in Asia; consolidation of states & prosperity in Europe, though disease & famine follow; truce between England & Scotland; zenith of Delhi Sultanate; gunpowder invented, Germany; Knights Templars dissolved; formation of Switzerland, Canary Is discovered by Genoese |
 Neptune square Pluto 1323-27 Ascendancy of Aztecs, C Mexico, founding Tenochtitlan; zenith of Moorish Grenada; cultural florescence in Italy; gold-rich Mali becomes Muslim; unstable Ashikaga period, Japan; famine in China (roots of Black Death); Ottoman expansion, Anatolia & Balkans; civil war in declining Byzantium; travels of Ibn Battuta, Africa to China; end of Buddhism in India by Sultan of Delhi; growth of Serbia
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 Uranus conjunct Pluto 1343-44 Black Death spreads from China across Asia to Europe (disaster, population loss, economic shrinkage, cultural contacts die); persecution of Jews, Germany - many Jews move east; Chinese emigration abroad (Singapore, Indonesia); rebellion against Delhi Sultanate, Vijayanagar power grows in S India
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 Uranus square Neptune 1353-55 Zenith in Japan, Indochina and Java - Majapahit zenith in Java-Sumatra; desolation across Europe (Black Death); Turks surround Constantinople; Mongol-Turk revival in C Asia - Timurlenk; rebuilding of Great Zimbabwe after bushfires; major social change in Europe (urbanisation, revolts, war between England & France); Black Death dies down
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 Uranus square Pluto 1370-71 Founding of Ming dynasty, China; Timurlenk's invasions of C Asia, Persia & Middle East; cruelty in Muslim world (Timurlenk & Delhi Sultanate); zenith of Hansa trading league; zenith of Vijayanagar, S India; rise of Lithuania; witchcraft and heresy persecutions begin in Europe; slow revival from Black Death in Eurasia
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 Uranus opposition Neptune 1391-94
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 Neptune conjunct Pluto 1394-96
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Timurlenk invades Iraq, Persia, N India (brings decline of Delhi Sultanate); Ottomans control Balkans (Bt of Kosovo); last pagan Euro state, Lithuania, converts to Catholicism; rebuilding in Ming China (after previous wars); Sweden, Denmark & Norway united; first stirrings of European Renaissance in Italy (Medicis in Florence); Henry the Navigator sponsors Portuguese exploration to Africa; Timurlenk defeats Ottomans - Ottoman revival under Suleiman I; fall of Timurlenk's empire on his death; ascendancy in Korea; most of Eurasia in intense transition |