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|- ! A.D. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 634. || Battle of the Yarmuk. Moslems took Syria. Omar second Caliph. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 637. || Battle of Kadessia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 638. || Jerusalem surrendered to Omar. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 642. || Heraclius died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 643. || Othman third Caliph. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 645. || Yuan Chwang returned to Singan. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 655. || Defeat of the Byzantine fleet by the Moslems. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 656. || Othman murdered at Medina. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 661. || Ali murdered. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 662. || Moawija Caliph. (First of the Omayyad caliphs.) |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 668. || The Caliph Moawija attacked Constantinople by sea—Theodore of Tarsus became Archbishop of Canterbury. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 675. || Last of the sea attacks by Moawija on Constantinople. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 687. || Pepin of Heristhal, mayor of the palace, reunited Austrasia and Neustria. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 711. || Moslem army invaded Spain from Africa. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 714. || Charles Martel mayor of the palace. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 715. || The domains of the Caliph Walid I extended from the Pyrenees to China. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 717-18. || Suleiman, son and successor of Walid, failed to take Constantinople. The Omayyad line passed its climax. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 732. || Charles Martel defeated the Moslems near Poitiers. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 735. || Death of the Venerable Bede. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 743. || Walid II Caliph,—the unbelieving Caliph. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 749. || Overthrow of the Omayyads. Abdul Abbas, the first Abbasid Caliph. Spain remained Omayyad. Beginning of the break-up of the Arab Empire. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 751. || Pepin crowned King of the French. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 755. || Martyrdom of St. Boniface. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 768. || Pepin died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 771. || Charlemagne sole king. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 774. || Charlemagne conquered Lombardy. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 776. || Charlemagne in Dalmatia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 786. || Haroun al Raschid Abbasid Caliph in Bagdad (to 809). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 795. || Leo III became Pope (to 816). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 800. || Leo crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the West. |}