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Chronological Table: Charlemagne

Pope Stephen IV. 770 Constantine dissolves the Monasteries in the East. 772 Charlemagne sole Monarch of France. - Pope Adrian I. 774 Charlemagne defeats Desiderius, and puts an end to the kingdom of the Lombards, which had subsisted 206 years. 775 LEO IV. Emperor of the East.

A. D. 778 Battle of Roncezvalles between the Christians and Moors in Spain, where Rolando is killed. 779 Charlemagne conquers Navarre and Sardinia. 781 CONSTANTINE (Porphyrogenitus) Emperor of the East. Irene, Empress, Regent in her son's minority, keeps him in entire subjection. re-establishes the worship of images. 785 Charlemagne subdues the Saxons.