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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) |