1026 Conrad proceeds to Italy. Crowned king of Italy at Milan. Pavia and Ravenna reduced to submission by force.
1027 Coronation of Conrad as emperor. Schleswig abandoned to the Danes.
1030 Disastrous invasion of the Poles. Ten thousand Germans carried to Poland.
1031 Conrad forces Poles to restore captives and reunites Lusatia to the empire.
1033 Conrad unites Burgundy to the empire after a struggle with a claimant, Count Eudes of Champagne.
1035 Civil war in Lombardy brings Conrad to Italy.
1037 Promulgation of the feudal edict of Conrad. Fruitless siege of Milan. Conrad withdraws on account of pestilence.
1039 Death of Conrad. His son Henry III, already crowned king of Germany (1026), succeeds. Height of the imperial power. Civil war in Italy continues.
1041 Campaign against Bretislaw of Bohemia, who offers his country as a fief of the crown.
1042-1044 Campaign against Hungary where German supremacy is first asserted. King Peter becomes a vassal of the empire.