The Barbarians

Rise of Islam

650 a.d. - 800 a.d.

650
1st church organized in Netherlands.
673
Irish monk Maol Rubha founds a training center at Aprochrosan that would serve as a base for missionary outreach into Scotland.
689
Pagans kill Irish missionary Kilian near Würzburg in what is now Germany.
692
Willibrord and 11 companions cross the North Sea to become missionaries to the Frisians (modern day Netherlands).
716
Boniface begins missionary work among Germanic tribes.
724
Boniface fells pagan sacred oak of Thor at Geismar in Hesse.
740
Irish monks reach Iceland.
787
Liudger begins missionary work among the pagans near the mouth of the Ems river (in modern day Germany)