CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
613
A.D. | |
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634. | Battle of the Yarmuk. Moslems took Syria. Omar second Caliph. |
637. | Battle of Kadessia. |
638. | Jerusalem surrendered to Omar. |
642. | Heraclius died. |
643. | Othman third Caliph. |
645. | Yuan Chwang returned to Singan. |
655. | Defeat of the Byzantine fleet by the Moslems. |
656. | Othman murdered at Medina. |
661. | Ali murdered. |
662. | Moawija Caliph. (First of the Omayyad caliphs.) |
668. | The Caliph Moawija attacked Constantinople by sea—Theodore of Tarsus became Archbishop of Canterbury. |
675. | Last of the sea attacks by Moawija on Constantinople. |
687. | Pepin of Heristhal, mayor of the palace, reunited Austrasia and Neustria. |
711. | Moslem army invaded Spain from Africa. |
714. | Charles Martel mayor of the palace. |
715. | The domains of the Caliph Walid I extended from the Pyrenees to China. |
717-18. | Suleiman, son and successor of Walid, failed to take Constantinople. The Omayyad line passed its climax. |
732. | Charles Martel defeated the Moslems near Poitiers. |
735. | Death of the Venerable Bede. |
743. | Walid II Caliph,—the unbelieving Caliph. |
749. | Overthrow of the Omayyads. Abdul Abbas, the first Abbasid Caliph. Spain remained Omayyad. Beginning of the break-up of the Arab Empire. |
751. | Pepin crowned King of the French. |
755. | Martyrdom of St. Boniface. |
768. | Pepin died. |
771. | Charlemagne sole king. |
774. | Charlemagne conquered Lombardy. |
776. | Charlemagne in Dalmatia. |
786. | Haroun al Raschid Abbasid Caliph in Bagdad (to 809). |
795. | Leo III became Pope (to 816). |
800. | Leo crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the West. |