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LXVII THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD

715.The domains of the Caliph Walid I extended from the Pyrenees to China.
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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