Some essential dates

Would be impossible not to remark some of the most meaningful dates leaded to the early Middle Age.


First of all, we should recal the year 476 a.C., when the Roman Empire officially ended in western Europe with the Romolo Augustolo's dethronement.
The years between 535 and the 553 chronicled an attempt from Byzantium of reconquest of the Western part.


In the 732 we had an historical battle between Christians and Muslims, in what is nowadays the southern France, where the army of the Merovingians stopped the army of al-Andalus in the Battle of Poitiers. In the 743 Childeric III was dethroned and the Pepinid family uprised and took the power between Franks.
From 772 to 802 Franks conquest saxon lands and  774 the Lombard kingdom in Italy ended and those territories were incorporated in the Franks kingdom.


Meanwhile in Byzantium( 797 ), empress Irene gave order to blind her own son, the Pope refused to accept this and worked to give power to Charles the Great from Pepinids in the western part. Pope Leo III assaulted and accused of immorality and perjury, escaped and sheltered to Charles the Great and then convoied until Rome where he exculpated himself in front of a congress of dignitaries with Charles in the position of a judge, and from him discharged from every accusation. Two days after, the Christmas day of the year 800, in Saint Peter, Leo III crowned him King of Romans... so that the Roman Empire in western Europe reborned, even if only in a formal and abstract way, after 324 years from the dethronement of the last Roman emperor.