| 715. | The domains of the Caliph Walid I extended from the Pyrenees to China. | |
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| 800. | Leo crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the West. | |
| 802. | Egbert, formerly an English refugee at the court of Charlemagne, established himself as King of Wessex. | |
| 810. | Krum of Bulgaria defeated and killed the Emperor Nicephorus. | |
| 814. | Charlemagne died. | |
| 828. | Egbert became first King of England. | |
| 843. | Louis the Pious died, and the Carlovingian Empire went to pieces. Until 962 there was no regular succession of Holy Roman Emperors, though the title appeared intermittently. | |
| 850. | About this time Rurik (a Northman) became ruler of Novgorod and Kieff. | |
| 852. | Boris first Christian King of Bulgaria (to 884). | |
| 865. | The fleet of the Russians (Northmen) threatened Constantinople. | |
| 904. | Russian (Northmen) fleet off Constantinople. | |
| 912. | Rolf the Ganger established himself in Normandy. | |
| 919. | Henry the Fowler elected King of Germany. | |
| 936. | Otto I became King of Germany in succession to his father, Henry the Fowler. | |
| 941. | Russian fleet again threatened Constantinople. | |
| 962. | Otto I, King of Germany, crowned Emperor (first Saxon Emperor) by John XII. | |
| 987. | Hugh Capet became King of France. End of the Carlovingian line of French kings. | |
| 1016. | Canute became King of England, Denmark and Norway. | |
| 1043. | Russian fleet threatened Constantinople. |
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