xiv 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 71 1-7 1 3 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 y/ 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)