| 277. | Mani crucified in Persia. | |
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| 634. | Battle of the Yarmuk. Moslems took Syria. Omar second Caliph. | |
| 635. | Tai-tsung received Nestorian missionaries. | |
| 637. | Battle of Kadessia. | |
| 638. | Jerusalem surrendered to the Caliph Omar. | |
| 642. | Heraclius died. | |
| 643. | Othman third Caliph. | |
| 655. | Defeat of the Byzantine fleet by the Moslems. | |
| 668. | The Caliph Moawija attacked Constantinople by sea. | |
| 687. | Pepin of Hersthal, mayor of the palace, reunited Austrasia and Neustria. | |
| 711. | Moslem army invaded Spain from Africa. |
| 715. | The domains of the Caliph Walid I extended from the Pyrenees to China. | |
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| 717-18. | Suleiman, son and successor of Walid, failed to take Constantinople. | |
| 732. | Charles Martel defeated the Moslems near Poitiers. | |
| 751. | Pepin crowned King of the French. | |
| 768. | Pepin died. | |
| 771. | Charlemagne sole king. | |
| 774. | Charlemagne conquered Lombardy. | |
| 786. | Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasid Caliph in Bagdad (to 809). | |
| 795. | Leo III became Pope (to 816). |