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Legend says Hengist and Horsa land with three shiploads of Saxon warriors.
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Legend says that King Arthur leads the Celtic and former British in a victory against the Anglo-Saxons.
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Sent by Pope Gregory,. Augustine lands in Kent, founds a Benedictine monastery at Canterbury, and begins his missionary work among the Anglo-Saxons in Britain,
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The British Celtic Church influenced by Irish monks chooses to adopt the Roman Catholic liturgy used by the Anglo-Saxon Christians
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Wilfrid, an Anglo-Saxon monk known for traveling from Britain to Belgium to conduct missionary work among the Germanic tribes there
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Bede, a Northumbrian Monk, completes his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
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The Abbasids based in Baghdad replace the Umayyads as the primary leaders of the Islamic world. This era is known as a Golden Age of Islamic philosophy, mathematics, and sciences as Arabic culture and Islamic theology engaged wirg Classical Greek thought and Persian culture.
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Boniface was an Anglo-Saxon monk who did missionary work among the pagan and violent Saxons of Germany
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After a few years co-ruling with his brother, Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of the Franks.
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In response to recent attacks by Saxon leader Widukind, Charlemagne reportedly has 4,500 Saxon prisoners executed en masse
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Charlemagne orders abbots and bishops to open schools near all churches and monasteries. Same year that Nicaea II ends Iconoclast Controversey.
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Charlemagne forces many to be baptized or face death. This was often done in response to pagan tribes killing missionaries or Christians
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First Viking raid in Britain at Lindisfarne Abbey.
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After being protected from enemies by Charlemagne a year earlier, Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne Emperor following Christmas Mass.
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After over 20 years of off and on fighting, Charlemagne defeats the Saxons and they convert to Christianity.
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The coalition of Norse warriors known as the Great Heathen Army (or Viking Great Army) arrives in East Anglia, led by Ivar the Boneless. They control over Half of England by 870.
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King Alfred defeats Guthrum and converts him to Christianity.
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From their city of Kiev in Ukraine, the Viking Rus begin their expansion into Slavic Territory
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Unable to deal with Viking Raids, Charles the Fat sees the Carolingian Empire splinter even further.
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OTTO I us recognized as Holy Roman Emperor which separates the Holy Roman Empire from what is becoming France.
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After years of Instability, the last Carolingian king of West Francia (France) dies and a new Dynasty begins.