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- 633 - Armies of Islam begin to attack Syrian province of Eastern Empire.
- 638 - fall of Jerusalem and Antioch.
- 642 - Fall of Alexandria - end of the annona to Constantinople.
- 661-750 - Umayyad caliphate
- 711-20 - Conquest of Visigothic Spain by Moslem armies.
- 717 - Arab besiegers defeated at Constantinople by Leo III.
- 732 - Battle of Poitiers - furthest extent of Islamic expansion in the west.
- 750 - Establishment of the Abbasid caliphate.
- 756 - Establishment of the Emirate of Cordoba, in Al-Andalus.
- 762 - foundation of Baghdad.
- 789 - First Viking raid in England, on Lindisfarne.
- 800 - Coronation of Charlemagne as 'Emperor of the Romans'.
- 813-972 - Saracen pirates raid Italy & Gaul.
- 827 - Arab raids & conquest of Sicily.
- 845 - Viking raid up the Seine destroys Paris.
- 880 - breakup of the Frankish Empire.
- 886 - King Alfred of the West Saxons re-captures London.
- 899-917 - Magyars raid eastern Europe, reach Burgundy.
- 910 - foundation of the Abbey of Cluny.
- 973 - Coronation of Edgar as King of England.
- 978 - Murder of Edward, accession of King Æthelred.
- 980 - renewal of Scandinavian raids on England.
- 991 - Battle of Maldon. Successive payments of danegeld.
- 1002 - Marriage of Æthelred & Emma, sister of the Duke of Normandy.
- 1009-1016 - Danish armies raid England.
- 1016 - Cnut becomes King of England & Denmark; murder of Uhtred of Northumbria.
- 1042 - Accession of Edward the Confessor.
- 1066 - Battle of Hastings.
Continue to Medieval or return to Late Antiquity.
See also the timeline on David Nash's Early British Kingdoms site - Historical Chronology of the Early Saxon Kingdoms
Key sources:
Anglo-Saxon England (Stenton, Oxford, 1971)
A History of Medieval Europe, from Constantine to St Louis (Davis, Longman, 1970)
A History of Medieval Spain (O'Callaghan, Cornell, 1975)
Byzantium - the Early Centuries (Norwich, Penguin, 1990)
The Cross and the Cresent - Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation (Fletcher, Penguin, 2003)
Bloodfeud - Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England (Fletcher, Penguin, 2002)
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