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)