634. Death of Abu-Bekr; accession of Omar as head of the Saracens.
635. Defeat of the Welsh by the English at Heavenfield.
636. The Roman army is overcome by the Saracens. See "THE SARACEN
CONQUEST OF SYRIA," iv, 247.
637. Emesa, Balbec, and Jerusalem taken by the Saracens.
638. Heraclius, unable to resist the Mahometans, retires to
Constantinople, where he publishes his _Ecthesis_.
Death of Dagobert; his two sons succeed, Clovis to Neustria and
Burgundy, Sigebert to Austrasia.
640. Capture of Caesarea. Invasion of Egypt by Amru, the general of Omar.
See "SARACENS CONQUER EGYPT," iv, 278.
641. Death of Heraclius, Emperor of the East; three rival emperors
succeed; accession of Constans II.
The Sassanian kingdom ends.
642. Victory at Nehavend by the Saracens; this places Persia in their
power.
Istria and Dalmatia invaded by the Slavonians.
643. Rotharis publishes the Lombard code of laws.
644. Assassination of Omar; Othman succeeds. See "SARACENS CONQUER
EGYPT," iv, 278.
646. Alexandria recaptured by the Greeks and again lost.
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