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285
Vikings attack paris
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Period: 507 to 507
clovis's army drives visigoths out of france
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527
justinian I becomes emperor of eastern roman emperor
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529
St.Benedict founds the first monistary
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529
St. Benedict founds his first monastery.
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537
construction of hagia sophia begins in constantinople
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590
St. Gregory the Great becomes pope
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596
Pope St. Gregory the Great sends St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons.
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597
St. Augustine baptizes the King of Kent
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632
Death of mohammed
mohamed whom the muslims call the prophet mohammed is the founder of islam by the time of his death all of arabia is muslim -
637
Muslims attack Constantinople
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638
Muslims capture jerusalem
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698
Muslims attack carthage
end of eastern roman rule over north africa -
711
Muslims invade and occupy spain
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716
St. Boniface leaves England to evangelize Germania
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732
France halts muslim invasion
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754
With St. Boniface’s help, the pope allies with the kings of the Franks
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793
Vikings attack england
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800
charlamagne is crowned Holy roman emperor by Pope Leo III
Eastern christians in constantinople did not approve of charlemagne's coronation and the new title bestowed by the pope caused further division between east and west -
800
gunpowder invented
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997
Muslims occupy santiago de compostela in spain burial of st.james the apostle
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1000
Muslims control two thirds of the ancient Christian world
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1054
The Great Schism
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1073
St. Gregory VII elected pope
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1073
Pope St. Gregory VII excommunicates the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV
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1088
First universities founded
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1094
The Byzantine emperor in Constantinople asks the West for aid against Muslim armies
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1095
Pope Urban II calls for a Crusade, and Christians temporarily capture Jerusalem
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1144
First Gothic cathedral completed
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1147
Second and Third Crusades
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1204
Crusaders from the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople
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1209
Franciscan Order is founded by St. Francis of Assisi
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1216
Dominican Order founded by St. Dominic
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1229
The Inquisition is founded
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1247
Bubonic plague arrives in Europe
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1265
St. Thomas Aquinas write the Summa Theologica
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1300
The Renaissance begins
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1377
St. Catherine of Siena convinces the pope to return the papacy to Rome
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1386
St. Catherine of Siena cares for the sick and buries the dead when the plague strikes Siena.
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1453
Muslims conquer Constantinople and tun Hagia Sophia into a mosque
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1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas