The Barbarians
Conversion of the Barbarians
500 a.d. - 650 a.d.
- 500
- 1st Christians reported in North Yemen.
- 535
- The nomadic Hephthalite Huns of northern China and Central Asia are taught to read and write by Nestorian missionaries.
- 622
- The beginning of Islam.
- 627
- Conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria (NE UK).
- 630
- Conversion of the East Angles (one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy).
- 637
- Lombards, a German people living in northern Italy, become Christians
- 647
- Amadeus, bishop of Maastricht, carries out missionary work in Frisia (Netherlands) and among the Slavs