AD 500-1000 By vin_luk21@sas-students.com 507 Clovis' army drives Visigoths out of France 527 Justinian I becomes emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 529 St. Benedict founds the first monastery 537 Construction of Hagia Sophia (current structure) begins in Constantinople 632 Death of Mohammad 637 Muslims attack Constantinople 638 Muslims capture Jerusalem 698 Muslims take Carthage 711 Muslims invade and occupy Spain 732 France halts Muslim invasion 793 Vikings attack England 800 Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III 800 Gunpowder invented 885 Vikings attack Paris 997 Muslims occupy Santiago de Compostela in Spain, burial place of St. James the Apostle.