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Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 10-25-732
Event Description: After invading Aquitaine, arab troops destroy the Frankish army commanded by Mayor Charles Martel at Poitiers. Disrupting the formation of the French Kingdom.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 4-10-733
Event Description: Arab raids coming from southern France arrive at the Rhin on the East and the English Channel on the North.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 7-15-734
Event Description: Almost all territories on France are arab tributaries.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 9-3-736
Event Description: Sirian professional troops arrive in France, bringing the whole country into the Damascus Caliphate.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 1-24-737
Event Description: Charles Martel is appointed Mayor of France by the Sirian Governor, finishing the absorbtion of Frank nobles into arab hierarchy. Some of the Frank nobles, like the visigothics in Spain before them, convert to islam thou some prefer to remain cristians.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 4-2-742
Event Description: The second great son of Charles Martel, Charles, is born.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 7-25-750
Event Description: Damascus. The last surviving Umayyad, a boy called Abd-al-Rahman leaves Siria, after the Royal family was massacred.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 7-27-754
Event Description: Pepin, Ibn (son of) Charles (Martel), becomes Mayor of France, his sons Charles and Carloman go to Cordoba to study arab, latin and greek.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 4-3-755
Event Description: Abd-al-Rahman arrives in Spain where the Sirian troops remain loyal to the Umayyads. He creates the Umayyad Emirate of Al Andalus (Iberian peninsula, France and Belgium), begining a time of enligthment not known from Roman times.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 9-12-760
Event Description: Arab scholars adopt Indian numerals

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 3-5-768
Event Description: At 26 years old, Charles (Charlemagne) become chief comander of Al andalus armys. Charlemagne forces place in easter France start raiding Germany, Netherlands and Swiss cantons, bringing most of it under arab rule.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 1-1-771
Event Description: Al Andalus engulf most of Western Europe. Abd-al-Rahman I consolidates its power and becomes Calipha, cuting all ties with Bagdad. The Capital is place in Cordoba, a city of almost half a million souls. Jew and cristian faiths are allowed on the same bases as islam, only a small tax is to be paid by non islamic. Many people convert to islam.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 1-3-773
Event Description: Pope Hadrian II, ask for help against Lombards threatening Rome. The only help that arrives is an Andalusian army. Charlemagne troops atack Lombardy, while Abd-al-Rahman I reaches Rome leading an army of French noblemen comanded by Hruodland (Roland). Italy comes under Andalusian control, and the Vatican is under Abd-al-Rahman protection. Knigth Roland is in comand of a special cavalry unit that protect the Pope, The Frank guard.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 10-19-777
Event Description: Charlemagne leaves the army and goes to Cordoba, where he becomes head legislator of the Caliphate. He introduces a Magna Carta for the people of the realm.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 7-5-788
Event Description: Abd-al-Rahman I dies. Hisham I becomes Calipha.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 6-8-793
Event Description: The borders of Al andalus are in peace after the defeat of the Saxons, Avars and Slavs. Vikings beging raiding northern Europe.

Timeline Number: 2622
Event Date: 12-25-800
Event Description: At Rome, Pope Leo III crowns Calipha Hisham I as Emperor of the West.

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