AD 500-1000 By aholmes21 507 Clovis' Army drives Visigoths out of France 527 Justinian I becomes emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 529 St Benedict founds the first monastery 529 St. Benedict founds his first monastery. 537 Construction of Hagia Sophia begins in Constantinople 590 St. Gregory the Great becomes pope 596 Pope St. Gregory the Great sends St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons. 597 St. Augustine baptizes the King of Kent 632 Death of Mohammad Mohammad, the founder of Islam, died. 637 Muslims attack Constantinople 638 Muslims capture Jerusalem 698 Muslims take Carthage End of Eastern Roman rule in North Africa 711 Muslims invade and occupy Spain 716 St. Boniface leaves England to evangelize Germania 732 France halts Muslim invasion 754 With St. Boniface’s help, the pope allies with the kings of the Franks 793 Vikings attack England 800 Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III Eastern Christian's did not agree with his coronation, causing division 800 Gunpowder invented 885 Vikings attack Paris 997 Muslims occupy Santiago de Compostela in Spain, burial place of St James the apostle 1000 Muslims control two thirds of the ancient Christian world 1054 The Great Schism 1073 St. Gregory VII elected pope 1073 Pope St. Gregory VII excommunicates the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV 1088 First universities founded 1094 The Byzantine emperor in Constantinople asks the West for aid against Muslim armie 1095 Pope Urban II calls for a Crusade, and Christians temporarily capture Jerusalem 1144 First Gothic cathedral completed 1147 Second Crusade 1192 Third Crusade 1204 Crusaders from the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople 1209 Franciscan Order is founded by St. Francis of Assisi 1216 Dominican Order founded by St. Dominic 1229 The Inquisition is founded 1265 St. Thomas Aquinas write the Summa Theologica 1300 The Renaissance begins 1347 Bubonic plague arrives in Europe. 1386 St. Catherine of Siena cares for the sick and buries the dead when the plague strikes Siena.