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Intro

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(Feature Photo: Ruins of Carthage in Tunisia, Africa; Photo Credit: Calips, Wikimedia Commons)

  

680   

The Temple Mount is refashioned by the “Umayyads—the all-powerful Sunni caliphate whose armies had conquered the city [Jerusalem] a few decades after Muhammad’s death in the late seventh century A.D,” they then added the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque (The Templars pg. 33)

 

681   

Pope Agatho dies

 

682   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Leo II is installed as Bishop of Rome

 

683   

Pope Leo II dies, aged 72

 

684   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Benedict II is installed as Bishop of Rome

 

685   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Benedict II dies, aged 50, and Pope John V is installed as Bishop of Rome

 

686   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope John V dies in his bed, aged 51, and Pope Conan is installed as Bishop of Rome

 

 

687   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Pope Conan dies and Pope Sergius I is installed as Bishop of Rome

 

688   

Under ‘Abd al-Malik, the Arab conquest of North Africa was resumed, they are opposed by both the native Berbers and the Byzantines, but in the coming years the governor appointed by ‘Abd al-Malik succeeded in winning the Berbers over to their side and they later captured Carthage (in Tunisia) almost ten years later

 

697 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, begins his rule of Wessex

 

689   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

 

690   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

 

691   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

 

692   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

 

693   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

 

694 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

 

695  

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

 

696   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

 

697   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

The Arabs under ‘Abd al-Malik capture Carthage, seat of the Byzantine province, other coastal cities then fell, and the work of pacification and Islamisation continued apace (Encyclopedia Britannica)

 

698  

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia

Muslim armies capture Carthage (in modern day Tunisia) from the Byzantine Empire (A History of the World, Map by Map pg. 94)

 

699   

RULERS & ROYALTY: Ine, the first true West Saxon king in England, is ruling in Wessex, the other major powerful kingdoms in England are Northumbria and Mercia