(Feature Photo: Map of the Western Roman Empire created in 1818; Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

 

650

RULERS & ROYALTY: – Martin I is pope/bishop of Rome – Constans II "The Bearded" is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (which will become the Byzantine Empire) – 

 

651

RULERS & ROYALTY: – Martin I is pope/bishop of Rome – Constans II "The Bearded" is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (which will become the Byzantine Empire) – 

 

652

RULERS & ROYALTY: – Martin I is pope/bishop of Rome – Constans II "The Bearded" is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (which will become the Byzantine Empire) – 

 

653

RULERS & ROYALTY: – Martin I is pope/bishop of Rome – Constans II "The Bearded" is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (which will become the Byzantine Empire) – 

 

654

RULERS & ROYALTY: – Martin I is pope/bishop of Rome – Constans II "The Bearded" is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (which will become the Byzantine Empire) – 

 

657   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Eugene I dies and Pope Vitalian is installed as the Bishop of Rome

 

672   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Vitalian dies, aged 55, and Pope Adeodatus II is installed as Bishop of Rome

 

675  

The earliest record of a Saxon convent in Bath, England (Osric, a local king, gives lands near Bath to the Abbess Bertana)

 

676   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Adeodatus II dies and Pope Donus is installed as Bishop of Rome

 

678   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Donus dies, Pope Agatho is installed as Bishop of Rome