Chapter 5

  • 23

    Muhammad defeats Meccans at Battle of Badr

  • 400

    Visigoths sack Rome under king Alaric

  • 410

    St. Augustine dies

  • 420

    Franks take Gaul

  • 430

    Council of Ephesus- third ecumenical- defined Mary to be mother of God.

  • 445

    Emp. Valentinian 111 acknowledges papal supremacy

  • 451

    Council of Chalcedon

  • 452

    St. Leo 1 meets Attila the Hun

  • 476

    End of Roman Empire, last western emperor is Romulus Augustulus

  • 493

    Theodoric the Ostrogoth becomes king of Italy

  • 530

    St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte Cassino

  • 553

    Second Council of Constantinople

  • 560

    Muhammad born near Mecca

  • 590

    St. Gregory

  • 612

    Muhammad has vision of archangel Gabriel

  • 623

    Muhammad defeats Meccans at Battle of Badr

  • 637

    Jerusalem captured by Muslim

  • Period: 640 to 640

    Library of Alexandria destroyed with 300,00 paypyrus scrolls

  • Period: 640 to 640

    Library of Alexandria destroyed with 300,00 paypyrus scrolls

  • Period: 680 to 680

    Third council of Constantinople

  • 684

    Dome of the rock