See "FOUNDING OF THE CARLOVINGIAN DYNASTY," iv, 324.
747. Great plague in Constantinople.
748. Venetian merchants having purchased slaves to be sold in Africa to
the Saracens, Pope Zachary forbids the traffic.
Virgilius, a priest, convicted of heresy for believing in the existence
of the antipodes.
750. End of the Ommiad and rise of the Abbasside dynasty of caliphs; all
the family of the former, except Abderrahman, put to death.
751. Pepin the Short founds the Carlovingian dynasty of the Franks. See
"FOUNDING OF THE CARLOVINGIAN DYNASTY," iv, 324.
752. Extinction of the exarchate of Ravenna by the Lombards under
Astolphus.
753. Pope Stephen II journeys to France.
754. Pepin the Short is crowned by Stephen II. See "FOUNDING OF THE
CARLOVINGIAN DYNASTY," iv, 324.
755. Pepin the Short defeats Astolphus, King of the Lombards, and
invests Pope Stephen II with Ravenna, and other places taken from the
Lombards. The Papal States founded.
St. Boniface is martyred in Germany.
756. Abderrahman founds the kingdom of the Ommiads at Cordova.
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