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Period: 100 to 500
AD 100-500
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354
Birth of St. Augustine
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360
Books begin to replace scrolls
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382
Pope Damasus asks St. Jerome to translate the Gospels into Latin.
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405
St Jerome complete his translation of the Old Testament
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410
St. Augustine begins writing The City of God
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432
St. Patrick sets out to spread the Gospel in Ireland
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480
Birth of St. Benedict
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Period: 500 to 1000
AD 500-1000
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507
Clovis' army drives Visigoths out of France
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527
Justinian I becomes emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire
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529
St. Benedict founds the first monastery
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537
Construction of Hagia Sophia(current structure) begins in Constantinople
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632
Death of Mohammad
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637
Muslims attack Constantinople
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638
Muslims capture Jerusalem
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698
Muslims take Carthage
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711
Muslims invade and occupy Spain
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732
France halts Muslim invasion
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793
Vikings attack England
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800
Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III
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800
Gunpowder invented
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885
Vikings attack Paris
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997
Muslims occupy Santiago de Compostela in Spain, burial place of St. James the Apostle