435 



CHRONOLOGY. 



567. 

 568. 





578. 

 .580. 



581. 

 83. 



584. 



588. 

 589. 



590. 



jyt. 



-.9.5. 



.596. 



598. 

 599. 



600. 



601. 



b03. 

 <04. 

 DOS. 

 606. 



ilO. 

 11. 



12. 



A coir.* ( appeared, aud wa* obtervcd for a year. 

 A conipiracy against Juitiniau. Beluarius disgra- 



ced, but restored the next year. 



.itinople almost consumed by fire. 



'ncc in Italy, France, and Germany. Co- 



lumbus propagate* Cmistumty among the Picls. 



Justinian die*, art. fcj. Agathia*, the historian. 

 The kingdom of the Visigoths founded in Spain. 

 The Lombards, invited from 1'annonia by Narses, 



found a kingdom in Italy. 

 The Turks first mentioned in history. Exarchs 



ent by the eastern emperors to Ravenna against 



the Lombards. 

 The Fenians declare war against Justin. Gregory 



of Tour, ob. . 



Part of Germany ravaged by the Avari. 

 The Persian* invade aud plunder Syria. 

 Civil wars in France. The firt monastery found- 



ed in Bavaria. 



Chosrocs defeated by Justin's army. 

 Justin II. dies. 

 Chosrocs again defeated, and dies of grief. The 



city of Antioch destroyed by an earthquake. 

 Latin ceased about this time to be spoken in Italy. 

 The Suevi in Spain subdued by the Visigoths. 

 The origin of fiefs in France. 

 An earthquake at Antioch. 

 The city of Paris destroyed by fire. 

 The Tiber inundates Rome. The provinces of 



China united. Philippicus defeated the Persians. 



A comet appeared. 

 Pestilence in Italy and France. The Avari defeat 



the Romans. 



Ceaulin defeated in the battle of Wanburgh. 

 The Avari expelled from Thrace. 

 Evagrius, the ecclesiastical historian. A comet 



appeared. 

 I stria, Bohemia, and Poland, invaded by the Scla- 



vooians. The Lombards besiege Rome, and ra- 



vage Italy. 

 John, of Constantinople, assumes the title of uni- 



versal bishop. 



Augustm arrives in England with 40 monks. 

 A truce between the Romans and Lombards. 

 A dreadful pestilence in Africa. A comet appears 



in France. 

 Italy ravaged by the Sclavonics and Avari. 



SEVENTH CENTURY. 



A comet was seen for several days. 



Mauritius, killed by Phocas. The Romans defeat- 



ed by the Lombards. 

 War between the Persian* and Greeks. Secundui, 



historian of the Lombards, ob. 615. 

 Chosroes defeats the Roman army. St Paul's 



church founded by Eihelbtrt, kiu^ of Kent. 

 Bells introduced into churches. The papal power 



begins. 



The court of chancery instituted in England. 

 Revolt of the Jewt in Antioch, who massacre the 



Christiana. Isidorui Hiiipalcotii, ob. 636. 

 Heraclius, after taking Constantinople, kills Phocas. 

 Westminster Abbey founded by filbert, king of 



the East Saxon*. 

 Syria ravaged by the Saracen*. Mahomet pub- 



lishes his Koran. Theophylactut Simocatta, 



the historian. 



Clotaire reign* over all France. 



A n. 



615. 

 GIG. 



(>J7. 



618. 



628. 



632. 

 6;i3. 



634. 

 635. 



(!:.d 

 6.17. 

 640. 



644. 



6i7. 

 648. 

 652. 

 653. 



659. 



660. 



{>(>.'{. 



668. 



(i69. 



i)71. 



673. 

 G74. 

 G75. 

 676. 



680. 

 681. 

 684. 



685. 



690. 

 694. 



695. 

 697. 



Jerusalem taken by the F^-un-, \v!,o kill 90,000, Chronnlo- 



and carry off the cross of Christ. ^ By- 



The Persians over-run Africa, and take Alexan- ^~~'<~*^ 



dria. 

 Carthage taken and plundered by the Persians. 



The Jews banished from Frauce and Spain. 

 Edwin kills Ethrlfrcd in th.- battle of Retford. 



John of Alexandria, called Philoponus, the gram- 



marian, and commentator on Aristotle. 

 Constantinople taken and pillaged by the Avari. 

 Hi raclius defeats the Ptr-.i;u, in a ^n^t battle. 



Mahomet fled irom Mecca tn Medina, and tin- 



Hegira begins on Friday, July 16. Mahomet 



ob. 6:5, it. 63. Heracliu* dus, (HI. 

 An academy founded at Canterbury. Chosroe* 



killed by his son. 



The atra of Jesdegird commences, June 1'i. 

 Edwin, king of Northumberland, kilkd in bulii* 



by Pcnda, king of Mercia. A large comet ap- 



peared. 

 Damascus taken by the Saracens. Goo Pi-ideit 



the poet and historian, ob. after 6-il. 

 The Saracens invade Egypt and P*lilinc. Pen* 



made from quills. 



Christianity introduced into China. 

 Jerusalem taken by the Saracens. 

 The Saracens take Alexandria, and burn t 



brary. 

 Omar killed in the temple of Jerusalem. The \\- 



versity of Cambridge founded by Sigcburt, ' 



of East Angiia. 



The Saracens muke themselves masters of Africa. 

 Cyprus taken by the Sara-ens. 

 Persia becomes a part of the empire of the Caliphs. 

 The Saracens destroy the Colossus of Rhodes, 



ravage Armenia, and defeat the Greeks at sea. 



The Danes invade England. 

 The Saracens obtain peace of Constans, on condi- 



tion of paying him 100,000 crowns yearly. 

 Organs first used in churches. 

 The kingdom of Lombardy taken possession of 



by Grimoald, duke of Beneventum. 

 Constans murdered in a bath. 

 Sicily ravaged by the Saracens. 

 The Saracens invade Syria, besiege Constantino- 



ple, &c. 

 The Greeks defeat the Saracens, and disperse their 



fleet. Callinicus, the mathematician. 

 Glass introduced into England by a Benedictine 



monk. Others fay in 663. 

 The Saracens attempting to land in Spain, are de- 



feated by Wamba. 

 The Saracens make a peace with Constantine, on 



paying an annual tribute. A comet apprared at 



Rome. 



The sixth general council of Constantinople. 

 Pestilence in Saxony, aud next year in Syria. 

 Egfrid invades Ireland, but is defeated. A comet 



appeared at Rome in January. An eruption of 



Vesuvius. 

 Constantine V. dies. The Saxons completely sub- 



due the Britons. 



Pcpin engrosses the power of the French monarchy. 

 A conspiracy of the Jews in Spain. Justinian II. 



banished with the loss of hi* nose. 

 Money first coined by the Arabian*. 

 Christianity propagated in the cattern parts of 



France. Leontius deposed. 



