727-43 | Attacks by Lombard King Liutprand on Byzantine territories in Italy |
732 | Defeat of Arab expeditionary force by Frankish leader Charles Martel near Poitiers |
735 | Death of the Venerable Bede |
740 | Major victory of Byzantines over Arabs at Akroinon |
750 | Overthrow of Ummayad caliphate by Abbasid dynasty |
751 | Pippin III deposes last Merovingian king and becomes first Carolingian king of the Franks; fall of Ravenna to Lombard King Aistulf |
754 | Martyrdom of St Boniface in Frisia; meeting of Pope Stephen II and Frankish King Pippin III resulting in alliance |
754-75 | Period of hard-line iconoclasm under Emperor Constantine V |
756 | Establishment of independent emirate in Spain by Ummayad prince 'Abd al-RahmÄn |
c. 760 | Composition of forged 'Donation of Constantine' purporting to record massive grant of lands and rights to the papacy |
762 | Foundation of Baghdad as capital of Abbasid caliphate |
c. 768 | Final Frankish conquest of Aquitaine |
772 | First of Charlemagne's campaigns against the Saxons |
774 | Take-over of Lombard kingdom by Frankish King Charlemagne |
778 | Defeat of Charlemagne's army by the Basques at Roncevaux |
783 | Beginning of Byzantine reconquest of the Peloponnese |
787 | Seventh Ecumenical Council at Nicaea; temporary end of iconoclasm |
793 | Lindisfarne sacked by Vikings |
799 | Establishment of scholarly centre at monastery of Studion in Constantinople by Abbot Theodore |
800 | Coronation of Charlemagne as emperor in Rome |
800-909 | Rule of Aghlabids as independent dynasty in North Africa |
801 | Beginning of Frankish 'Spanish March' in north-east Spain |
811 | Defeat of Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus I by Bulgars |
812 | Byzantine recognition of imperial title of Charlemagne |
c. 813-c. 915 | Period of serious Arab naval raids on shores of |
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