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 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Book iv., a.d. 476 to 1080 GUIDING DATES West East Clovis, King of the Franks. 481 Justinian .... 527 Theoderic the Ostrogoth 489-526 Heraclius .... 610 Vandal kingdom destroyed 536 Mohammed : the Hejira 622 Narses in Italy. 554 Abu Bekr, kaliph 632 Lombard Invasion 568 Arabs invade Persia. 632 Gregory the Great 590-604 Omar, kaliph 634 Pepin of Heristal 687 Arabs conquer Egypt. 640 Rise of Venice. 697 Leo the I saurian. 7i8 Saracens invade Spain . 711 Iconoclast movement. 725 Battle of Poictiers or Tours 732 Abbasid kaliphate 75o Pepin the Short, King of the Harun al Raschid at Bagdad 786 Franks 754 Irene, Empress. 797 Charlemagne, king 768 Emperor Basil 1. Mace- Charlemagne, emperoi 800 donian dynasty 867 Egbert of Wessex 802 Separation of Eastern and Louis the Pious. 814 Western Churches. 869 Treaty of Verdun 843 Saracens in Sicily 878 Alfred the Great 87 1 -90 1 Basil 11., emperor 976 Henry the Fowler 918 Mahmud of Ghazni invades Otto 1., German king 936 India .... 1000 Battle of Lechfeld 955 Seljuks in Armenia 1048 Otto, emperor 961 Seljuks at Jerusalem. 1076 Capet dynasty 987 Canute the Great 1017 Henry III., emperor 1039 Normans in Italy 1040 Norman Conquest 1066 Gregory VII., pope 1073 167