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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
597 | Mission of St. Augustine to Kent | |
610 | Accession of Heraclius in the Byzantine Empire | |
615 | Death of St. Columban in northern Italy | |
622 | Hegira of Mohammed | |
Etymologies of Isidore | ||
629-639 | Frankish territories reunited under Dagobert | |
632-651 | Mohammedan conquest of Syria, Egypt, Persia | |
661 | Ommiad dynasty founded | |
664 | Synod of Whitby | |
687 | Battle of Testry | |
698 | Carthage permanently captured by the Mohammedans | |
711-713 | Mohammedan conquest of Spain | |
718 | Mission of Boniface to Germany | |
726 | Iconoclastic decree of Leo III, Byzantine Emperor | |
731 | Ecclesiastical History of Bede | |
732 | Battle of Tours | |
750 | Abbassid dynasty founded | |
751 | Ravenna captured by the Lombards | |
Carolingian dynasty founded by Pepin | ||
755 | Ommiad Emirate of Cordova | |
768-814 | Reign of Charlemagne | |
774 | End of the Lombard Kingdom | |
787 | Danish invasions begin in England | |
800 | Imperial coronation of Charlemagne | |
827 | Saracen invasion of Sicily begins | |
842 | The Strassburg Oaths | |
843 | The Treaty of Verdun | |
c. 859 | Rurik becomes Grand Prince of Russia | |
864 | Conversion of Boris I of Bulgaria | |
869 | Eighth (Ecumenical Council at Constantinople | |
870 | The Treaty of Mersen | |
871-901 | Reign of Alfred the Great in England | |
885 | Paris besieged by the Northmen | |
887 | Deposition of the Emperor Charles | |
c. 896 | Invasions of the Magyars begin | |
904 | Saloniki seized by the Saracens | |
909 | Fatimite dynasty founded in North Africa | |
910 | Abbey of Cluny founded | |
911-912 | Origin of Normandy | |
929 | Caliphate of Cordova founded by Abd-er-Rahman III | |
934 | Kingdom of Aries begins | |
955 | Battle of the Lechfeld | |
962 | Otto the Great crowned Holy Roman Emperor | |
969 | Egypt conquered by the Fatimites | |
975 | Death of Edgar the Peaceful, King of England | |
980-1037 | Avicenna | |
987 | Hugh Capet founds the Capetian dynasty | |
997-1038 | Reign of St. Stephen of Hungary | |
999-1003 | Pope Sylvester II (Gerbert) |