| 701 | John VI becomes pope (701-05) |
| 705 | John VII becomes pope (705-07) |
| 708 | Sisinnius becomes pope (708) |
| 708 | Constantine becomes pope (708-15) |
| 711 | Berber leader Tarik ibn Ziyad receives invitation from heirs of Visigothic King Witica to help them unseat usurper Roderick, so Tarik crosses from Africa and defeats Roderick at the Battle of Guadalete, near Medina Sedonia. . Instead of restoring the house of Witica, Tarik brings over reinforcements and occupies the entire Iberian peninsula, ending the Visigoth kingdom, and establishing Moorish control of Spain that lasts until 1492. |
| 715 | St. Gregory II becomes pope (715-31) |
| 718 | Aquitaine invaded by Arab forces. |
| 731 | St. Gregory III becomes pope (731-41) |
| 732 | Frankish ruler Charles Martel ("The Hammer" and grandfather of Charlemagne) defeats advancing Arab armies under Abd-er-rahman, between Poitiers and Tours, in Gaul. |
| 739 | Pope Gregory III sends letter appealing to the Frankish ruler Charles Martel for help against the Lombards in Italy. |
| 741 | St. Zachary becomes pope (741-52) |
| 743 | Charles Martel's sons, Pepin (the Short) and Carloman select Childeric III as nominal king of the Franks. |
| 750 | City of Sijilmasa founded as a gathering place for Berber tribes. |
| 751 | After Carloman retires to religious life ( in 751), Pepin forces Childeric III into a monastery and takes the Frank throne as Pepin III. Lombards capture Ravenna from the Byzantines. |
| 752 | Stephen II becomes pope (752) |
| 752 | Stephen III becomes pope (752-57) |
| 754 | In return for recognition of his regency by Pope Stephen II, Pepin III protects Rome from Lombard attack and gives Ravenna and other cities to the temporal control of the Pope, thus instituting the Papal States. |
| 755 | Barbarian general of the T'ang army leads a revolt that, although quickly crushed, permanently damages the effectiveness of the central Chinese government. |
| 757 | St. Paul I becomes pope (757-67) |
| 767 | Stephen IV becomes pope (767-72) |
| 772 | Adrian I becomes pope (772-95) |
| 774 | Charlemagne confirms his father's (Pepin III) ceding of Ravenna and other cities to the Pope. |
| 778 | Charlemagne, King of the Francs, invades Spain. |
| 781 | Charlemagne subdues Aquitaine and places his son Louis on the throne. |
| 789 | Anglo-Saxon sheriff killed by Vikings who land in Wessex. |
| 793 | Danish Vikings attack the great monastic settlement of Lindisfarne (Holy Island), steal the gold, jewels and sacred emblems, take many monks off to slavery and slaughter the rest, revealing the vulnerability of the many monastic colonies located off of Britain's coast. |
| 794 | Vikings sack the monastery of Jarrow, home of the historian Bede. |
| 795 | Vikings sack Iona. |
| 795 | St. Leo III becomes pope (795-816) |