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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)