610
| 610 • Pope Boniface IV presides over a Council of Rome for the restoration of monastic discipline. Attendees include Mellitus, first bishop of London.Brooks "Mellitus (d. 624)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
670
Age: 60y
| 670 • Muslim Conquest: Arab forces (10,000 men) under general Uqba ibn Nafi invade the Byzantine Exarchate of Africa. He establishes a military base at Kairouan (Tunisia) for further invasions and founds the Great Mosque also known as the "Mosque of Uqba". |