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716-717 Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs
732 Battle of Tours
750-1058 The Abbassid Caliphs
768-814 Reign of Charlemagne
800 Charlemagne crowned Emperor of the Romans
829 England united under Egbert
843 Treaty of Verdun
862(?) Northmen under Ruric settle in Russia
870 Treaty of Mersen
871-901(?) Reign of Alfred the Great
911 Northmen settle in northwestern France
(Normandy)
962 Otto the Great crowned Holy Roman Emperor
982 Greenland discovered
987-996 Reign of Hugh Capet
